1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:35 pm
The sound palette has variations and shadings that may be too subtle for some...
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Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:09 pm
Yep it's catching on!!!
The sound palette has variations and shadings that may be too subtle for some...
The sound palette has variations and shadings that may be too subtle for some...
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:19 pm
I'd think one would have to spend a LOT more time learning what all the switches and knobs do than they did learning to play...
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:06 pm
Well, that's good to know!All the extra holes were drilled with a CNC machine, so they are straight.
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:52 pm
Yes, but this one is actually a Godwin Organ Guitar, so it is completely justified in having so many controls. The others are hideous.jingle_jangle wrote:
The sound palette has variations and shadings that may be too subtle for some...
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:56 pm
Completely justified?
In the sense that every knob or switch does something, yes.
Still, patently ridiculous. Oh, and ugly, to boot.
In the sense that every knob or switch does something, yes.
Still, patently ridiculous. Oh, and ugly, to boot.
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:59 pm
Not gonna disagree at the end of the dayjingle_jangle wrote:Completely justified?
In the sense that every knob or switch does something, yes.
Still, patently ridiculous. Oh, and ugly, to boot.
Some elements of style are there. I am sure you could work some of those into submission.
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:59 pm
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:03 am
doctorwho wrote:Shades of the 1960s Vox Guitar Organ!
http://www.voxshowroom.com/us/guitar/guitar_organ.html
I had one of those a couple years ago. What a miserable pile of rubbish. Very cool though!
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:23 pm
Yep.collin wrote:I had one of those a couple years ago. What a miserable pile of rubbish. Very cool though!
It sounds like you ran it through a Maestro Fuzz Tone on some of the lower notes, that was probably the "rubbish" part of it, how notes distorted and weren't clear.
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:26 pm
Nope. The rubbish part is how it had a 20' wide metal neck with tiny notched frets. It weighed a metric ton and had so many switches and knobs that half of them didn't work. The high action, non-adjustable neck, background noise...The tone wasn't even cool.
Honestly, the only reason these get more attention than the MCI Guitorgan is because of the Vox name and cool shape.
Very cool wall art...that's about it.
Honestly, the only reason these get more attention than the MCI Guitorgan is because of the Vox name and cool shape.
Very cool wall art...that's about it.
Re: 1958 Les Paul Custom (CL)
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:41 pm
The embedded video at the Vox Showroom link in my post is a demo of the prototype back in the 1960s.