Coil taps are great to me nothing beats a single coil clean sound , and it can do any type of music you fancy. Just a totally bad ass machine

Like I said the coil taps are suburb wish the bypass one was easier to pull up though

After I put some super slinks on it lowered the bridge just a hair and just barely tweaked the truss rod it plays soo sweet and the action is super low now with no buzz at all I can slip my pick underneath my high e at the 15th fret and it'll stick by itself

Although I have been disappointed in the past with a couple of gibsons guitars that I've owned this one stands tall just everything on this baby screams quality

Well $2500 plus dollars isn't easy to hide from the misses but if you play your cards right you'll be fine hahahahaha, I mean hey if she can spend $150 on one new pair of pants every couple weeks that she'll hate after the first time she wears em then I can get this beauty and love it for the rest of my life and come out way ahead

Used them once for another les paul i own the we're great and so helpful

From the moment I opened the case I've been breathless (got the desert burst to anyone who's on the fence about a finish look no more then that finish it's jaw dropping)

20+ years ,guitar, just at home anymore with friends

Rock ,hard rock ,metal ,country ,blues

The Burstbucker Pros in this guitar are really nice sounding. Full and warm, but still clear. Just the right amount of bite without being harsh. Coil tapped they are great too, they don't get as thin as true single coils, but they give a nice amount of versatility to this guitar. The pickups clean up nicely with the volume knob, and the tone knob is useful from 1 to 10 (not something I can say on many guitars). Also worth noting, these pickups have some nice overtones. Usually don't get much from humbuckers.

Great features on this guitar. Both pickups can be coil tapped via the volume knobs. One of the the knobs acts as a phase switch, which also helps cancel hum when you are in the middle position with both pickups tapped. The other tone knob works as a bypass switch, putting all output through the bridge pickup and bypassing the volume and tone controls for maximum rudeness/crunch/overtones. The locking tuners are a plus, they hold tune great. Only options I feel are missing is a nicer nut (comes with a corian nut, I much prefer a true bone nut, or a tusk nut) and strap locks. The strap pegs are noticeably smaller than the ones on my Tele, and I do not trust them. Both of these are easily and cheaply upgradeable, but I am leaving my LP stock.

I was shocked at the factory setup on this. I've traditionally played guitars between 700 to 1000 bucks, and they generally play well after a nice setup (just could not see spending more for a guitar at the time). But this guitar played excellently right out of the box. Low action, no buzz, bridge pickup is setup hot, and neck fairly tame. Also the pickups are in a nice zone of being powerful, but not ridiculous. I play a TH 30 amp and this guitar roars through it, but sounds full and nice when played clean.

Given some if the recent buzz surrounding Gibson I was a little worried in this department. But with the guitar here and in my hands for a while now, I really like the build quality. Everything is really solid, and there seem to be a lot of old LP's around so I am not worried about the durability. The finish is gorgeous, I have the desert burst plus top, and it was a little cloudy when it first arrived. Used a soft cloth to shine it up and now it just glows! Can't say if I got lucky or not, but the quality is great on this guitar. I had a 2011 LP studio and even after a pro setup it didn't play anywhere near this good (and remember this one is a stock factory setup!).

This one is hard to answer....for me it would be yes, the guitar was worth the money. It's well built, has the tone I love both clean and dirty, coil taps, locking tuners, beautiful rosewood fretboard (forgot to mention that, it is drop dead gorgeous, like 3 different colors of brown all streaking through...breathtaking), and I am most comfortable with the LP body style and shorter scale length. There are cheaper guitars that have similar body styles, but this guitar has nearly everything I wanted (minus the previously mentioned strap locks and upgraded nut). For me, I wasn't going to go with a copy. Stick with the original.

I've not heard good things about Gibson's support, but will likely not go through them anyways should any work need to be done. I'd encourage people to search for a reputable, local luthier (there are more than you think) if you need anything done. And with LP's so popular, they are usually used to working with them too, another plus.

I'll be honest, I am pretty much over the initial "wow" of a new guitar, normally because I have never felt entirely happy with any of them (been through custom builds, tele's, strats, studio lp's, 7 strings, baritones, etc). But upon opening the case...the smell of the laquer, the gorgeous fretboard and flame maple top, and that feeling of "man, this is a real Les Paul Standard" did hit me. And to my surprise, it has not worn off, I love this guitar, flaws and all.

All total 8 years, with a 10 year gap in there for marriage/divorce lol. Bedroom/garage jammer.

Rock, shoegaze metal, drone

I found my settings fairly quickly after playing with the mass amount of features this beast has. Dirty sound with neck pu full blast and around 4 on the tone. Clean sound with neck pu coil tapped full blast on both vol and tone. Solo on neck pu regular with a volume boost pedel. Nuff Said.

Everything about this guitar is beautiful. The only features I probably won't be using is the phase inverter option, which I already knew. And the true bypass, which I thought I would really like, but is just a bit to bright for my tastes, and I have no eq pedal.

Great Sounds? Easy Peasy! playable as you can make it!!!

Made very well. I don't plan on trashing it, but I am going to play it a lot, and I hope it will stand the test of time.

You are paying for the Gibson name sure, but you are also paying for Gibson quality, sound, and look.. Worth it to me, thats why I bought it.

Never dealt with Gibson.

I came home for lunch from work. Big package had arrived. Didn't go back to work. WOW!!!!!! PS I accidentally hit one star overall, so not true, but it wouldn't let me change it!!!!

23 years of music on all sorts of instruments

rock & roll baby!!!

5 years playing blues and rock

30 years playing guitar

Rock and blues

Guitar one year. Other guitar Taylor acoustic

popular, blues, rock, country

I have played the guitar since I was 5...I am 55 now. I played proffesionally for many years...that was some years ago

A fusion of the sounds I grew up with. essentially R&B with a hard edge