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Telecaster vs. Les Paul but they both have the same pickups, set up, strings, and wiring (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/guitars@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Having multiple guitars, I’ll still go by what Jim Lill and SMG say: it’s mostly up to the speakers. I have a knockoff tele, Epi Wildkat and some others. They sound exactly the same with my setup using an fx chain in reaper going out to my shit Line6 amp. Personally I don’t care as much about sound as I do does it make me want to play?.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    does it make me want to play?

    Amen to that!

    I loved the Jim Lil series, and it was nice to hear Ryan give a nod to it in this video. I'm not familiar with SMG, are you referring to smg-guitars.com?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    No SMG is Spectre Media Group. This place He does all metal music production stuff.

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    • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago

    I think there was a clear difference in at least the bridge pickup sounds between the two.

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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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