In-Depth With Gibson's 'Modern' Les Paul - What Make Them So Different?!

[@DaganWilkin]

LOVED playing this guitar! 🤘The perfect mix of old school and new school! ⚡️

[@PMTVUK]

🙌 🙌 🙌

[@kentuckywindage222]

Beautiful tones.

[@TheSupart91]

Hey Dagan did u buy the LP? On your Instagram the other day?

[@squeekeyhoodrattattoo8781]

That bit where you said you can play math rock. Little bit of a lie. But we will leave it there . Great video and a les Paul I wouldnt mind myself. Iv never said that begore

[@DaganWilkin]

@@squeekeyhoodrattattoo8781 100% you can play that on this guitar, or any guitar for that matter 😂

[@sb632]

Absolutely love the color.

[@toxictwinzz]

Fantastic guitar! I bought the exact one Trogly reviewed and documented on his show about 6 weeks ago. The seafoam green example. Couldn't be happier. I also have a LP Classic and a LP Slash NB - and the Modern Figured Seafoam is a great addition!

[@Badhabitches]

Just picked mine up at the Louisville, KY GC for 1999 new. Went in specifically to get an LP Special in TV Yellow saw the price tag on this one, plugged it in and told them to go get the case out of the back. This guitar is crazy.

[@Swede-js9jq]

I’ve had a Gibson Les Paul Modem for a few years now, and I absolutely love it.

[@BDizzleMySchnizzle]

I have the Epiphone Les Paul Modern. It's an awesome guitar. Fantastic sound, the coil splits sound way better than my PRS's splits. The cutaway on the back is so much easier to play on than a traditional heel, and stock locking tuners. The guitar is just a joy to play. Has been worth every cent I paid and more.

[@sgtpilko5428]

Beautiful guitar

[@tonyjohnstone5157]

What amp were you using? SOUNDED FABULOUS!!!!

[@PMTVUK]

Just straight into the Blackstar St James 6L6! 🤘

[@Dodgyguitarist]

Looks and sounds mint! I do love a green guitar

[@wojciechszeler2]

Interresting colour!

[@Okanehira]

I want one of these so bad, love that colour.

[@jamesherbert1628]

I gotta have a purple one of they ever make one!😅

[@VN9001]

Great demo and run through on this model! I played one at length in my local shop and really liked it. In particular, I love the modern weight relief, ebony fretboard, figured top + sea foam green colour, compound radius, upper fret access heel, the natural mahogany neck & back vs. the painted ones on the Blue and Red versions. I have no use for the lame sounding (IMO) "out of phase" switch. The "P-90" sound in both bridge and neck is very dark sounding, not bright at all. Gibson achieves it through the use of additional caps in the circuit, which may explain why it sounds so non-P-90 'ish. There are no actual split coils on this guitar.

[@TheDeedeeFiles]

Beautiful guitar 🎸

[@PMTVUK]

It sure is!

[@SEEKPRODUCTIONS100]

What a Kick ass shred at the begining!!!

[@tomfuchsmusic]

@DaganWilkin I love your content and your enthusiasm. I can see that you enjoy every second of making music, that's awesome!!! By the way, I have a request for a new "How to get the sound of...."-video. Can you please do that for Brad Gillis (Night Ranger)? I know he is not the kind of guitar shredder everyone talks about. But he absolutely deserves being mentioned, when it comes to great 80s-style-guitarplaying. I'm looking for his guitar tone on a budget, but don't know where to start. I just can't afford a used Mesa-Boogie MKIIB or MKIIC+ and a hot rodded original Fender '62 HSS Strat. Can you please help me out?

[@SubutaiTuul]

out of the new finishes for the Modern, that sea foam green is absolutely the best one imo, and then probably the Blueberry burst on the 50's n 60's. tho for some reason the heel is still not flush with the scoop at the neck... i dont really get that.. especially considering the price of these, you would expect it to be flush

[@MiniShowProductions]

got the burgundy one its lovely to play

[@davessparetime83]

Gibson needs to make a version Les Paul with EMGs and a Floyd Rose option. So if Gibson hollows out the Les Paul body does it still sound the same? Or is the thick Maple top what gives the Les Paul it's deep sound?

[@-jank-willson]

it has special strings that give it that deep sound

[@raithmhael3323]

You could literally put the pickups on a 2 by 4 and as long as it still has the same scale length and hardware it would sound the same through an Amp. Do it, and look at an actually graph displaying the frequencies. Science

[@1Know1tHurts]

​@@raithmhael3323Finally. A person who knows what he talks about👍

[@jonathananthony1901]

​@@raithmhael3323😆 🤣

[@MauricioGarcia-mk5bz]

Les Paul glory………😂😂😂😂😂😂. Nice video.

[@willraven7]

This vs the Schecter Apocalypse LP w floyd rose!?? Which one would u pick !??

[@colboysigmax]

Love it!!!

[@snapfinger1]

The Les Paul is easily outfitted to suit anyone from the man himself to Buckethead.

[@RR-eu2jx]

How did you replace the pickup? With another quick connect pickup ?

[@sjorda12]

I have the Pelham blue one and it’s just amazing. Feel of the neck is better than anything I’ve played.

[@PMTVUK]

It’s such great neck!

[@abrownm5]

I have to agree! I have a Sparkling Burgandy Lefty and the feel of the neck is the best thing about it.

[@Robbie28]

The fact that they have Ebony boards is what gets me. Still expensive, but more reachable than a custom for sure.

[@printercomp6046]

'What pickup did you put in your iceman?

[@PMTVUK]

He put an old Bill Lawrence L500XL in it 👍

[@eearts]

Some of the best tops are PRS this one is beautiful however, not very affordable.

[@miscool]

best place to get tabs an learn cool songs

[@arj1765]

Hi, please can you confirm it is an Asymmetrical slim taper neck? The spec on the Gibson website just says Slimtaper neck so wanted to confirm. Thanks

[@willraven7]

Would u pick this over the ec1000 at 1k vs 3k??

[@robertglowinski5617]

DAGAN FOR PRIME MINISTER

[@vaportrails7943]

I got one last year, and overall, it is really good. The compound radius neck with ebony fretboard and carved heel make it better for playing fast. “Shred” if you’re not allergic to that. The asymmetrical neck is subtle, but still pretty cool. Overall, the neck feels slightly thinner than a Standard, and much more playable up high. It comes with locking tuners, which is a must. The one thing that baffles me is the pickups. The Burstbucker Pros are low output, which doesn’t fit with “modern”. I ended up replacing the bridge pickup with a 498T, and now it kills. After doing a precise setup, it’s amazing. So be aware that if you’re a metal player, you’ll probably want to change the pickups. At least the bridge. But then it gives you B.B. King, and it gives you the newest high gain shred. The split coil/out of phase stuff is pretty wild, and starts sounding like a Strat, which is really weird for a Les Paul, but cool to have. It does everything. Summary: Nearly perfect, but needs different pickups, and would be nice if it had Floyd Rose option, and more colors to choose from. I got Graphite, which they don’t seem to be making right now, so I’m glad I got it when I did.

[@sergiorenillagallardo6530]

It's obvious that you haven't weight the guitar, because the weight isn't far different from a les paul standard 60s

[@Ace8Three]

Weight relief is a definitely NO for my taste. Yeah it is lighter, but takes a lot of tone away. Why would I want to take a tone away? And if they take wood away they must compensate it by using heavy wood, which has not the best quality. Heavy wood les paul with no weight relief has not been the best choice.

[@PMTVUK]

Still sounds great to me!

[@GallowayJesse]

"takes tone away" lol what does that even mean. Nonsense

[@VN9001]

Agree with Dagan on it sounding great! Still sounds distinctly Les Paul. There is no "tone loss" , LOL 😆@@PMTVUK

[@tommilitello198]

Takes tone away lMFAO

[@paulcartwright2810]

Yeah i know what you mean...i mean due to its hollow bodied construction the Gibson ES 335 and the epiphone Casino are famous for having no tone ...made even worse due to their their plywood construction .. Its also a well known fact that Brian May of Queen has one of the worst tones ever because his Red Special has chambers .. I quote "The body was made from blockboard (strips of softwood sandwiched between two plywood skins) with oak inserts in the top and bottom layers sourced from an old table. It was covered with mahogany marquetry veneer on the top, bottom and side to give it the appearance of a solid-body guitar."....Brian may has one of the worst tones in Rock ... Then there's Eddie Van Halen who unlike you @8Three Ace ...who no doubt will only settle for the very best finests SOLID mahogany from Gibson's custom shop... used a cheapo basswood "boogie" body from the 2nds bin when throwing together the "Frankenstrat" ...and thats why his tone on the 1st 2 van Halen albums are famous for having no quality in the tone ...LOL..pre conceptions and my mean hearted sarcasm aside .this guitar sounds great

[@TheSoundofForgetting]

Dagan you are awesome but you really need to spend some more time on clean tones and edge of breakup and not full blown distortion as it gets old so to say.. I know you alive the 80s & I lived through them but I also lived through the 70s and those are the best! But there was Clean Tones! You’re awesome and why I watch all of these but notice you just don’t do clean tones a lot or for long. Other than that the colors are awful and hope they add some vintage or classic colors cause all these just look awful to me. I will stick with my 60s standard 🤘🏻🎸🤘🏻 Keep rocking

[@matt926uk1]

i kind of hate these moderns, a les paul will always be a boomer guitar and thats how i like them

[@g3ng4rb0i3]

It was really hard to see u talk good on a les paul man, we all know it's shit. But it's your job so totally understand

[@SolarVergmoid]

Your nuts.

[@seektruth5074]

You’re mistaken.

[@g3ng4rb0i3]

@@seektruth5074 tell that to the millions of broken gibsons headstocks

[@seektruth5074]

@@g3ng4rb0i3 Millions? Besides, you’re actually referring to a certain % of _CARELESS_ Gibson owners. After laying out the $ for one, MOST will be careful. On top of that, it’s been proved that they’re not _that_ easy to break.

[@outoflegend1332]

why modern guitar's are so ugly

[@PMTVUK]

Dude, it’s just a green Les Paul 😂

[@VN9001]

Yeah, that figured top is just gross looking, isn't it! 😂