Rockin' upright bass and some classic P90 Les Paul tone

singemonkey · 2010-12-31T21:31:34+00:00

Saw this browsing around for Jools Holland show performances: I reckon Keira might like this one. And the guitar player shows what a Les Paul with P90s is supposed to sound like. It's almost just like Vic's new one.

alexis221woodworks

I love it...Nice warm sound

Sean

Wow, very nice, not sure how I originally missed this :-[

I really have to upgrade my cheap, tiny, nine year old pc speakers because after the intro, the upright got completely lost in the vocals,drums and guitar ☹

Concerning the LP, what does wrap-around refer to?

singemonkey

Sean wrote Wow, very nice, not sure how I originally missed this :-[

I really have to upgrade my cheap, tiny, nine year old pc speakers because after the intro, the upright got completely lost in the vocals,drums and guitar ☹

I hear you there. I'm in the same boat.

Concerning the LP, what does wrap-around refer to?

In 1954 they changed the trapeze tailpiece on the original Les Paul (the kind that attaches at the strap lug and sits in the air so that you can't really rest your hand on it and do any muting) to a wrap-around tailpiece. Strings go in away from the neck and then wrap-around the top and head back to the nut. They changed again in 1956 to the stop tailpiece and separate tune-o-matic bridge to give control over intonation.

But many users of wrap-arounds say that intonation is not nearly as big a problem with them as people have made out.

I think it's a very elegant bridge and if (haha. I said "if" ?) I get another LP one day it'll definitely have one.

Sean

singemonkey wrote
But many users of wrap-arounds say that intonation is not nearly as big a problem with them as people have made out.

Aah, thanks. And as you mentioned in an earlier post, based on this clip (he's all over the neck), doesn't sound like it's much of an issue.

Gearhead

You also get wraparounds these days with sliding saddles. According to some, the tone is better than the TOM+stoptail. @Singemonkey: maybe if you bought another LP that is exactly to the same spec as another one that has TOM, you could shed some light on this?

singemonkey

Gearhead wrote You also get wraparounds these days with sliding saddles. According to some, the tone is better than the TOM+stoptail. @Singemonkey: maybe if you bought another LP that is exactly to the same spec as another one that has TOM, you could shed some light on this?

Well, that's years away. I'd either find a cheapish used Jeff Beck Custom Shop Gibson, or get one custom made by Tokai (maybe with an ebony board too ? ). But it'd definitely be interesting to hear an A/B with two say, custom shop gold-tops with the same pickups and about the same weight.

Yeah. There are quite a few different stop tailpieces now with all kinds of options for intonation. No loss at all if your tailpiece doesn't give you perfect intonation because there are five or six different after-market options easily that could remedy that.

Reinhard

The wraptails are supposedly very resonant as mentioned earlier. Gibson just released a wraptail ES-335 as well. Looks rather interesting, I would love to hear one.

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