Gibson launches the Les Paul Studio Session – but is $2,000 really an “accessible price”?
Gibson has launched the Les Paul Studio Session, another rendition of the model it’s branding as “The One”.
This new version follows on from its Les Paul Studio sibling, launched in September, and has a slightly higher – but “accessible” price tag at $1,999 as opposed to $1,599. Gibson describes the Studio Session as “an enhanced version and a step up from the classic Les Paul Studio with upgraded features and refinements based on customer feedback and player requests”.
READ MORE: Gibson launches the Jimmy Page EDS-1275 Doubleneck VOS, a cheaper version of the $50,000 Collector’s Edition model
The Gibson Les Paul Studio Session features an ultra-modern weight-relieved mahogany body, making it lighter and more comfortable to play, plus a carved, AA figured maple cap that adds “brightness and definition to the overall tone”.
It also has a glued-in mahogany neck, designed for increased resonance and sustain, and features a modern contoured heel for easy access to the upper frets. It’s capped with a bound ebony fretboard with a radius of 12”, equipped with acrylic trapezoid inlays, and 22 medium jumbo frets.
Grover Rotomatic tuners with Keystone buttons add to the guitar’s classic visual aesthetic, and an adjustable aluminum Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge, aluminum Stop Bar tailpiece, and Graph Tech nut are on board to aid tuning stability.
As for pickups, The Les Paul Studio Session is equipped with a ’57 Classic in the neck position and a ’57 Classic + in the bridge, wired to a three-way pickup selector switch. Each of the two pickups is wired to its own volume control, so you can blend the sound from the pickups together, and each volume control is equipped with a push/pull switch for coil tapping.
Each also has an individual tone control, also outfitted with push/pull potentiometers for phase switching when both pickups are used together, as well as Pure Bypass switching that routes the bridge pickup straight to the output jack and bypasses the controls completely for the “purest” signal path possible.
The Les Paul Studio Session is available in Cobalt Burst, Bourbon Burst, Translucent Ebony Burst, and Honey Burst.
To find out more about The Les Paul Studio Session, head over to Gibson.
The post Gibson launches the Les Paul Studio Session – but is $2,000 really an “accessible price”? appeared first on Guitar.com | All Things Guitar.
Source: www.guitar-bass.net
