The Les Paul Classic really didn't change much for the new 2019 line up, but taking a look at this one did help clear up some things that a few people were curious about. I've got 1 more 2019 to review that I haven't teased before I give the new line up a rest. Listing: reverb.com/item/23672703-video-2019-gibson-les-paul-classic-black-modern-collection?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=Trogly Episode Guide: 0:14 - History of the Classic 1:59 - Why is Classic in Modern Series? 3:35 - Inside Look / Specs 9:02 - Tone Talk 14:08 - Dirty Tones 15:03 - Final Thoughts 15:30 - Case + Candy
Great review as always! Gorgeous in ebony but they should have gone modern weight relief. It’s still heavy. Just got a ‘73 Custom that weighs less than this one and it’s HEAVY. And being a no-pickguard guy I took it off the custom and after 46 years there is not mark like the ones you’re finding. They need to go back to providing loose pickguards. At least on moderns.
If you have the opportunity how about a side by side sweep test between modern vol. and tone controls vs. the trad. vol. and tone control wiring? I love the idea of switching options, but fine, dynamic vol. and tone controls are more important i think.
@@nalukeko it is a strange issue, I have a 1986 LP Custom that does not have any marks from the pick guard mounting. On my newer LP style guitars I do stick a small piece of felt to the nut/screw just to make sure this doesn't happen.
I’m guessing you’re reviewing the old classic not the new one. Mark A from Gibson says it should be point to point wiring: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5ff3eBu-BDE.html
They have the slim tapper neck which is more of my Gibson neck preference compared to their usual c shaped necks. It’s the same profile they use on SG guitars and Epiphone Casinos as well.
@@easternshore8367 oh that’s interesting . I liked the blue p90 double cut away a year or 2 ago but the neck was like a baseball bat. Neck feel is the most important part of a guitar. When I walk around guitar stores all I do is grab the neck. Any guitar regardless the look .
@@dananthony6258 Obsession with neck profiles seems to be a current trend. It was not discussed nearly as much before. I can play any neck. Most of the time it's only your thumb that touches the neck. And a difference of a few millimeters doesn't make much of a difference.
This was my first Gibson, I was really stoked when I got it, and it’s a beautiful guitar, for what ever reason I got real into the history of the Les Paul after I bought it. Your channel is a real gem and I appreciate all the time and care that you put into your videos!
I recently got my first Gibson... I got a 99 SG standard.... I was always into Gibson history, and knew about LPs and SGs. I also played enough Epiphones' to know that the SG body is my preference. I love LPs, but they remind me of when I used to play bass lol
The Les Paul classic 1997 was my second LP ( after my standard was stolen) and I thought it was the perfect neck of any guitar ever plus the usual great Gibson LP fretwork. Miss it to this day .
Absolutely the best demo of the Les Paul Classic. I’m a 58 year old beginner, that grew up listening to the original Standard in a lot of music I listened to, so I purchased one used that it look like the person never used. I saw how to use a 1970’s to 1980’s Standard and was totally lost on the Classic. I still wish I bought a 50’s reissue, but was told this had jumbo frets and a 60’s slimmer neck. Now after watching this video and understanding how it works I feel blessed to have one of the best Les Pauls of our era. Thank you for putting this video out.
The very first LP I had noticed as a 9-year-old had looked like that; 40 years later, and it still is my absolute favourite colour scheme for an LP, especially with the open pick-ups. :-)
I've had a similar experience...as a kid I remember my dad had a LP copy with this colour scheme in the early eighty's. So I got this new LP classic this year for that same reason, mine doesn't have the flaws mentioned in this video, so very happy with it!
haha... it is the lyrics over a chord progression that get copyrighted... so cool beans, haha... like... Weird Al gets away with mocking the same tunes, but changes the lytics...
If anyone is wondering about the static or the "pat pat tat" sounds, I got a 2020 Classic and I have not seen it do that so maybe its not a regular thing. There's a hum sound when you split the humbuckers but i think that's normal. This guitar plays perfect, feels perfect and sounds like heaven. And this video really convinced me of buying it so thank you!
If you split the humbucker you're left with a single coil (sort of; the magnetic field isn't exactly the same, so it sounds different). So yeah it hums. Like single coils do.
I have 2021 Classic and the static is still there. But stays only on the back side of the guitar. It's something with the nitro laquer. Drying sheet helps, but it's really a temporary solution.
I own one of the original Gibson Les Paul Classic Collection guitars, its a 1992 Les Paul Classic Plus, wine red, got the deal of a lifetime and absolutely love it!!
Love your show! This video was very thorough and convinced me to purchase the 2021 Gibson Les Paul Classic as my very first Gibson! Thank you and keep up with the awesome content!
I own a 2017 Les Paul Classic, and it's actually my all time favourite guitar. Perfect combination of Gibson specs: locking tuners, mid weight relief, modern neck and the famous orange capacitor together with the classic Gibson tone coming for a pair of 57 classics. A couple of small aesthetic problems (quality control)? Yes, but still an awesome guitar.
Austin: "- All hail the new serial number style! 19 for 2019 the day in the year, 00 for first batch, etc. Still Austin: "- What these mysterious 00 in the pickup cavity stand for? 😀
I usually like simplicity, but the push/pull pots give you some really useful sounds. My favorite being the "out of phase" Peter Green sound. The pure bridge pickup sound is nice also. These look like a great value, especially when the used guitars start to come on the market.
Mark Agnesi s a new head of customer experience. Or something like that. But Trogly breaks it down for purchasers where the rubber meets the road. Or where the binding meets the fretboard. They should their hire him or pay him off. They certainly should be watching his videos. (I mean I guess they are if they commented on the bridge-mounting thing.)
I paused the video at 2:28 - I will say PCB.... OK back to the show...7:45, yup PCB! As you said Austin, "Modern" made me think PCB lol. Nice guitar,if I was to be in the market for a new one right now I would probably go with this one, that black sure looks sweet. Great review Austin!
bone-dry that guitar sounds fantastic...reeeeally close to my 2009 deluxe, even a bit better in the middle positions. it has a genuine authority but is also very nuanced *vocal* character flowing through; that is something that 95% of guitars can't quite succeed at, and most miss by a mile
Great demo! I am simply chuffed to see that Gibson is offering the Ebony finish again on the Standards. There was a several year drought with all of those foo foo finishes since Les Paul's 100th birthday.
James Scott Nicholson from Ontario Canada I just bought well first they gave me a 2019 off the rack which had a bit of a twist in the headstock but I sent it back and Gibson sent me a 2020 Gibson Les Paul classic honey burst beautiful guitar my daughter bought it for 12 years sobriety for me so it’s a real special gift and while I was there I happen to score Myself a 2014 120 anniversary studio version Les Paul with the two volume knobs that split the pick ups great guitars
I've got a 2017 Les Paul classic Goldtop. It's a Special run for Long & Mquade. - No pushpull pots, hand wired - Uncovered Zebra 57 classic & 57+ - Switch craft hardware - original USA Bigsby with Vibromate accessories added - Grover locking tuners. God I love this guitar.
Im so happy you demo’d this. :). Been trying to hard wire everything on my Les Paul copy. :). Ended up paying an amount. Love it to bits. :). Been with me since 09. :)
I jus got this in a dark cherry sun burst with little flame it looks so dope an unique compared to the other ones I was looking at..an it plays amazing
It sounds like my 2015 epiphone sg pro. It has coil slitting, but no bypass or out-of-phaser switch. I put 57' humbuckers in it. I put it up to my Gibson's all day and it holds strong!!!
Everything is about the color and this one is awesome People might want to have a look at it, I suppose playing it is just the same. Lovely little beauty. 😉
What I would love to see is this black color with red binding all the way around,red speed knobs red pickup rings and as the finisher red Gibson logo. .Pure Evil
I really love the ebony used in this review. It is just a shame Gibson reverted to the old bolt on scratch plate. I think this model would look great without the scratch plate. Gibson should have kept the clip-on scratch plate.
That black one looks exactly like the one Joe Perry played on love in an elevator, I always wanted a black lp les Paul with a white scratch plate after watching joe play one. No one looks as cool as him playing one though.
I can't understand why so many people act snobby about the classic but love the standard. People act like the classics should sell for so much cheaper, yet they arent much cheaper new and are every bit as good. plus those flat but beeft necks are awesome. I see 90s standards going for 2500+ and then people on guitar forums saying the same year classics are worth 1200 max.
because of the demand and people believe the standard is the holy grail of lp.. remember how expensive is the burst. im okay with classic.. they are underrated
Gibson’s official video on this guitar with Mark Agnesi just came out today. Mark says in the video there is NO PCB, and they’re hand wired push pull pots. What’s the story there?
It is possible they are using up the old PCBs before switching to hand wiring. This is one of the new ones bought directly from Sweetwater from the Modern Collection listings
I just got the Smokehouse Burst Gibson Les Paul Classic from Sweetwater and I love it. I like the coil splitting pots and the light weight as well as the neck feel. I was thinking about getting the Les Paul Studio but I am glad I spent the extra $$$ and got yhe Classic. All in all it's a great guitar.
Fantastic video. I'm a long time watcher of your channel...but this is my first comment. I really enjoy the in depth reviews you give of the 2019 series...especially handy for people like me who are interested in buying one...but can't go through the whole series (my local store doesn't carry every model). So far I'm most impressed with this model and the original series standard.
I had a bullion gold top Les Paul 1997( like slash played) and it had the best guitar neck and fret work I have ever had in any guitar!!!! The pickups were a little too hot for my taste but other than being a big hefty old Les Paul it was perfect!! Miss it to this day as I sold it . Now I have a Les Paul special pro with neck binding and great fretwork etc but there still is something about that classic I miss .
Splice a pair of Antiquities into the circuitry and you can still use the extra knob controls, I think the Antiquity's take advantage of the knob controls a lot better.
By just adding a pair of nickel pickup covers to it, you instantly have a Les Paul Standard 60s with fancier electronics and a slightly lighter body. Sounds like a great deal to me.
Thank you for good demo I can hear the pickups clearly hear, I think the 61 are clearly a miss for Gibson, the 57s were more dynamic sounding, rich, broad sound pallet, then the old 496/500 combo was bomb assed in the old classics, these sound to me like a voiced Duncan designed, ouch, really narrow, like voiced,
Hey, great review. You have also reviewed the Standard 60s extensively. It would be great to know what you think about differences in tone between the Classic and Standard 60s. Thanks
The original 90s Classics had the bridge directly mounted on to the top which I didn't like for fear of stripping the wood. I also didn't like thin 60s thinner neck, so I bought a 91 Standard.
With an original ABR-1 installation there is no way to strip the threads in the wood. The newer style have thumb wheels that rotate the whole post to adjust the height. The original ABR-1 bridges had the threaded post screwed into the top and they did not rotate to adjust height, instead the little thumb wheels could be screwed up and down the stationary threads to adjust the height. Difference being the true ABR-1 thumb wheels were the only moving part(s).
@@hkguitar1984 : cool, I didn't know that. I still didn't like the 60s profile neck, but those 90s Classics used to be very popular with the bands around here.
Coil "split" is a weird thing in this. In my guitar what I have measured the ohms reading does not change at all between normal and "split" position. I discovered from some forum that the "split" position is actually coil tap between coils lead thru capacitor to ground. That makes sense to my measurement. Both coils still active but voicing changes to P90 direction.
I measured the same thing on my 2020 LP Classic. To my ears the bridge pu with the volume pulled out sounds a lot like a Strat cluck in 2nd position, but both bridge pu coils are active(verified with a tap test done with a metal screw driver tip) so I wonder how I get that single coil sound with the '61 humbucker. Does anyone know the details about how this works?
I have a red LP Classic and you can see the woodgrain thru the finish, the black one appears to be the only LP classic were you can't see thru the finish,
So what kind of magnets???? ALNICO V or III or II or ceramics? You didnt tell us either, lol, but overall great review? What gibson pickups sound the best?
Hi Austin. Love your videos. Great Review. What was the experiment you were planning with the Gibson polishing cloth? Thank you. PS I watch your videos in the morning while I drink my coffee. Every morning. You have commitment like I've never seen. Bravo!
I have on en route (in ebony as well) and thought it had locking tuners but I'm okay with it not having them. It honestly matters more for trem guitars. I like winding them for a little more intonation.
Alexander Acker it’s great. Stays in tune etc. love the electronics. One of the best Gibson has done in a long time. Just wish they had made a gold top. Though I paired mine with a lighting strap so it’s very 70s right now.
They’re still pcb control.... I got the very first batch of the 2019 LP Classic in Sept 2018... the only downside for me is the 61 Bridge... I didnt find them having the midrange bite and lacks the output to balance with the 61 neck... i ended up replacing both PU with SD 59’s.
James Scott Nicholson again forgot to tell you my case the second one they gave me come with the double binding on top and bottom and doesn’t have that little problem you just showed so I’m very thankful either of my cases my 2014 case still says made in USA on it I don’t know why they don’t put that on there anymore maybe you could tell me thanks for everything you do this is a great program I’m always learning keep on rockin bro
I have a 2019 Les Paul Classic in green - Sweetwater Exclusive. I had them install a bone nut and locking tuners. Its a very nice guitar - no issues. :)
@@pjd1974 So how are they gonna walk that one back. That was one of the sales pitche for the guitar. LOL ... Gibson how you make me laugh! Don't get me wrong they're my favorite guitar. But they still have quality control issues. They're going in the right direction the question is will they get there.
Whats your opinon? Buy a 50's or the Classic? It will be my first Gibson Les Paul and I will use it for pop, rock, to heavy stuff. The neck is one thing I worry about. If its too thin or not. I worry if the 50's neck is too fat or not. I am used to playing a Jazzmaster with the 7.25 neck spec
I have the LP Classic in the tamer yellow wannabe Lemon Burst color. It's my number 1 for our cover band as I can cover everything from funk to heavy stuff with this and a line6 helix or fractal. It really is a fabulous workhorse gigging guitar. I wish there were some fancier tops/finishes for these being "modern" however the tones are what everyone compliments this thing on
Just got my Classic yesterday. Someone at Gibson must’ve watched your vids: there’s a piece of felt tape on the back of the pick guard nut and no divot underneath! Not that it matters for me though because i like the pick guard left on, but might make a difference for someone! Mine is stamped May 21, 2019.
You're the second person to let me know that. I really wish Gibson would reach out to me when they make changes like these so I can help spread the good news! haha
Forgive me if this has been asked, I haven’t read thru all 432 comments. At 8:31 you show the 2019 model serial number as first and fifth digits. Shouldn’t it be first and second digits? I’m confused.
I have one of those, maybe I'm getting weaker over time but I didn't notice any "weight relief". The weight is worthwhile though when you hear how its sounds.
Question that I can't seem to find a definitive answer to on-line. Did the push-pull coil tapping and phase shift electronics start in the Classic series with the 2019 Classic modern or was it introduced in an earlier Classic model. I ask because although I assume 2019 was the year it was introduced, I see 2019 Classics posted in the Demo shop (and other places) that do not have the coil-tapping electronics listed in the product description. It's a little confusing. Thanks.
what are your thoughts on the 2019 SG tribute? Thinking of trading an 83' ibanez am-205 for a walnut 2019 sg tribute that plays pretty great. Would love to hear your opinion on them. Thanks!
Another fine review. Question? The Classic LP does it have stainless steel "Jescar" as opposed to "nickel frets"? And, is the nut Graphtech only white? Thanks Trogly!
Are the plastics still that gaudy pinkish color or did they finally change them to be the historically accurate cream like what's used on the Historics?
