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Telecaster vs. Les Paul but they both have the same pickups, set up, strings, and wiring (www.youtube.com)
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Can you hear the difference between a Fender Telecaster and a Gibson Les Paul if both guitars have the exact same Pickups, setup, strings and wiring?

A fun little experiment in the great debate over where the tone comes from.

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

The "different scale length" comment is spot on... also affects probably relative position of the pickups, string tension. I do think they sound very similar, but there is a small difference and it's likely due to those factors.

From scale length you'd expexr the longer scale guitar to sound brighter, which I think is what I can also hear.

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