SOLD GIBSON LES PAUL STANDARD 2018

Weight Relieved .”Asymmetrical Slim Taper” neck profile that offers a little more heft on the bass side and a 1960-esque slimness on the treble side.  Compound radius fingerboard that offers the possibility of a lower action. The idea is to slightly adjust the radius of the neck to account for the difference between the string spacing at the bridge and nut. The result is a slightly conical aspect to the radius of the fingerboard, placing it more in line with the plane of the string as defined by bridge and nut spacings.
And finally, Gibson has added several switching possibilities over the traditional selector switch by adding push-pull switches to its volume and tone controls. In the Standard this offers four functions: Each of the volume controls can be pulled up to split its respective humbucker in what Gibson refers to as “Tuned Coil Taps.” Gibson adds an EQ network that boosts the bass and moderates the mids. The tone control pull switches also offer extra possibilites: The switch on the neck pickup tone control reverses the phase of the neck pickup offering a sound similar to Peter Green’s “Greenie” tone when the pickup selector is in the middle position. And finally, the bridge pickup tone control pull switch is a “blower” switch that connects the bridge pickup directly to the output jack, thus bypassing or “blowing-by” the volume and tone controls. When playing live, you can dial up any other control combination and then pop up this switch for a bright, powerful lead sound.

FEATURES OF THE 2018 LES PAUL STANDARD

• Mahogany body