Gibson Les Paul Recording II Electric Guitar (with Case)

Gibson designed the Les Paul Recording II solidbody electric guitar based on the exact specs of Les Paul's own guitar. While it wasn't accepted as readily as the Les Paul or SG models, the Les Paul Recording was actually Les Paul's favorite guitar out of all of them.

Low-impedance pickups for direct recording convenience

Les Paul paved the way for recording guitars, and his idea of the perfect instrument included low-impedance pickups that could be plugged directly into a mixing console. The Les Paul Recording II features these same unique pickups, with a low-Z/hi-Z toggle for changing the output impedance. You can connect directly to a microphone preamplifier in low-Z mode, or connect to your favorite amplifier in hi-Z mode.

Incredible tonal variety with the Decade switch

The idea behind the Les Paul Recording guitar was that Les Paul wanted every awesome guitar tone he ever created to be accessible from one guitar. So for maximum tonal variety, he designed the Decade switch. You can dial in everything from bright and biting highs to softer, subdued highs, and everything in between.

Designed to be Les Paul's "everything" guitar

By the start of the '70s, Les Paul had blazed the trails for countless guitarists. After decades of conjuring all sorts of iconic guitar tones, Les Paul still wanted more. Specifically, he wanted them all from one guitar! Thus the Recording model was born. This Les Paul Recording II is based on Les Paul's very own original Recording… read more model, right down to the exact specs. It may have been ahead of its time, but the Les Paul Recording II faithfully reproduces one of the most unique guitars ever made.

Features:

- Faithful reproduction of the original Les Paul Recording model
- Based on the specs of Les Paul's personal guitar
- Low-impedance pickups can be plugged directly into a mixing console or microphone preamp
- Pickups can be switched to hi-Z output for use with a guitar amplifier
- Bigsby vibrato tailpiece for expressive playing
- Phase reverse switch for tonal variety
- Decade switch alters how the tone circuit effects high frequencies, from biting to smooth and subtle
- Limited edition
- Hard case included read less