Chappers & the Captain spent a day going through the new Gibson guitars released for 2014. The videos will be released every 3-4 days over the next 5-6 weeks, and will cover all the new Les Pauls & SGs coming in 2014.
The Melody Maker is the entry level Gibson guitar made in the USA – great value & retro good looks – available in several colours – for more info go here – http://www.andertons.co.uk/Products/Products.asp?keyword=gibson+melody+maker&type=search&attributeXML0=||||#1387881267199page-1
Rob is playing one of the new 2014 LPJ Guitars – that video is coming next…
The amps being used are the Marshall AFD100 into a Victory 4×12 (thats what Chappers is using) & the Blackstar S1 45 Combo (thats what the Captain using).
The little bit of reverb on the amps is provided courtesy of the TC Hall of Fame reverb pedals
Cheers Everyone….
Chappers & the Captain
Saw Steve via this year in Dallas Texas and he played for majority of his
set two separate intonation compensated fret jems one of which was acrylic
w led lights inside. Guess what. The acrylic one sounded exactly like the
others he had on stage which I presume were all wooden. So there goes your
misinformation saying vai doesn’t use fret intonation compensation and tone
wood theory
i got a gibson les paul studio pro 2014 in fireburst and id definatly
recommend it!
That Melody Maker sounds nice! I didn’t expect that.
NO natural (non-digital) musical instrument that I know of has perfect
intonation or perfect anything. As Chappers said the slightest of pressure
changes a guitar’s intonation, and when has every fret touched the string
only at the perfect theoretic center anyway? Musicians use their ears and
hands and whatever else (brass winds = lips and lungs ) to SOUND pleasingly
in-tune. But that’s not the same as perfect intonation by a long shot.
Bottom line – the cheap Melody Maker will sound killer in the right hands,
intonation defects and all.
Haha the guy on the left reminds me of Sean from Alice in Chains so much. I
love that sense of humor lol
Stone Temple Pilots revisited, nice :)
I enjoy your vids for reviews. Though, I don’t buy based on your
opinions. You are way too biased for the name brand guitars. I’ve played
some of the Gibsons you say are nice, like this vid and they are horrible
to play. The frets are way too sharp on these guitars. Gibson is slacking
on these.
On the 2014 Gibson LP Studio I bought, the first 3 frets are a killer for
intonation. The nut is too high. Any pressure, other than the slightest
of pressure, throws it out of tune. It was annoying. I had to work on
the nut to lower the string height. Though The pickups are GREAT. That I
have to bow my head at.
I never had nut height problems with the 3 Epiphones I own. Action and
intonation is always great. I think a great LP is the Epi 60’s tribute,
with case. All Gibson parts and 57 pickups at 1/4 of the price of a
comparable Gibson. Epi doesn’t paint on their binding as I heard in
another video. They use the same abs binding as gibson. I have Gibson USA
guitars, Fender Usa and Squier China, China Epis LP and Casino’s and the
best sounding guitar I own, 1982 Japan D’Agastino 335 and yet, one is not
better than the other. They just sound different. And that is what playing
is all about. The sound. Can’t live with one sound. You need variety of
sound. If you ever see a great guitarists collection of guitars. They
pretty much own every guitar sound. Not name brand. They will have $400
guitar, that sounds great, in their collection.
What is the chord at 9:07 is it like a diminished or like a sus chord or
one of those weird ones
Would one of these be good for some one who’s played a bit of guitar in the
past but is still in that “beginner” stage
STEVE VAI DOES USE WIGGLY FRETS
360
I’d love to have a blues jam with The Captain
Rocksmith.. has taught me a least a little bit about jamming together, you
guys are very good but if you coordinated for the Jam on a certain root and
scale it would sound ridiculous.
Just sayin’
You missed out the Gibson Les Paul Futura
look is cool!!
sound also!!!
not extremely expensive !!!
just great
i will buy it
my epiphone les paul special 2 produces some hum but it doesn’t drive me
mad.
My 61 Melody Maker has only 1 pickup and has a double cut away body
,,,..
I would take an SGJ over the melody maker. Midnight blue is quite a nice
colour but..come on. At least you get a proper tail piece and bridge. And
humbucking pickups are nice if you want to do higher gain stuff. And it’s
STILL somehow cheaper than the melody maker…
Sillly lee, Gibson already has a signature Melody Maker for Billlie Joe
Armstrong.
Ted McCarty never really said anything about human doing the pickup
winding, i remember an old video which he explained they used machine for
pickup winding tho. old days workers were notorious at being inconsistent
and gibson at that day always change their winding, thats why old gibson
pickup wiring were vary. i hope i clear the myth that vintage gibson pickup
were scatter wound.
I love melody makers. They have a certain bite to the tone.
This one is a combination of my two favourite les pauls, the ’54 goldtop
and the les paul junior but without the pickguard.
The Captain’s tone at the end was ridiculous
Malmsteen has s sqiuigly fretbord!
love you guys great videos!
can you do a clip on setting intonation @ action bro…..
my friend has a yellow one
i like tv yellow
So I’m looking to buy a guitar and i can’t decide..
Its between:
ESP LTD F-50 BLK
ESP LTD EC-331
And Gibson Les Paul Melody Maker 2014
Which is “best” for dropped tuning and heavy playing? but also good in E
standard tuning?
Give us some of that Captain Crunch!
Guys would you recommend this or Epi Standard Plustop Pro? I’ve just sold
my Epi Zakk Wylde.
Any real difference between the LP Melody Maker and the LP Junior Special?
The second you touch a string to a fret the pressure of your finger affects
intonation – micro tonally perfect intonation is impossible on fretted
instruments.
Invent a problem, create a solution… = profit…