50s vs 60s Gibson Les Paul Studio Tribute Pt. 1

Audio demo comparison of a 50s Gibson Les Paul Studio Tribute vs a 60s Tribute. The gain is coming from a Boss OD-2r (not in boost mode). Just playing some chords and stuff, swapping pickups and guitars so you get a comparison of the tonal differences between guitars.

[Iodine]

Honestly I liked the tones of both. Each have their place, the 60s tended to sound slightly more open to me, whereas the 50s sounded almost compressed sometimes, but in a good way for jangly lightly driven or pushed cleans. I ended up keeping the 60s mainly because I preferred the neck. I really do need to look into seeing if I can swap out one of the pots to be a push-pull to add a orange-drop cap.

[agnellone]

@sambondtaylor First of all depends on what neck profile do you prefer. if you ask me I'd say the 60's, keeping the neck pickup and swapping the bridge one for a dimarzio p90 super distortion. That's the only pickup I know for rock/heavy rock and similiar that would fit in without butchering the guitar body, plus you can split it with a push/pull pot and use it more or less as a single coil. Hope it helps, cheers

[Iodine]

@Uz2Brockstar I'll be honest, I don't think I've checked the control cavity of mine. I know that Gibson didn't make mention of the orange drop caps on the 60s when they were first listing them on the site. I'll definitely have to check it out. If the circuits on the two (50s ad 60s) I had were the same, that's amazing how much variance there was.

[Iodine]

Both were the stock p90s. The 50s has that orange drop cap in the circuit, which accounts for the sonic differences.

[Iodine]

@Uz2Brockstar Ahh I see now on the Gibson site the "darkback" you refer to. Wasn't aware these were out.

[Iodine]

Yeah I'm not too knowledgable about circuits, I was just thinking of a way to maybe get a switchable circuit without adding another switch to the front ya know?

[MMRkyle]

If it's a true p90 u can't push pull it cause p90s are single coil pick ups that are over wound.