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  1. On 4/29/2024 at 7:21 PM, nuke said:

    I detest the absolute absurdity of YouTube videos like this.  There are a couple of YT formulas to get a lot of hits on guitar vids, the first being, "...I can make this cheap used squier just as good as the custom shop all those rich guys paid too much for!"  The other is "you can't hear it/yes I can hear it!"

    First of all, Gibson has churned out a LOT of things with the "Les Paul" model name on it.  Thing is, they ALL SOUND DIFFERENT even though they all say, "Gibson Les Paul". It depends, what wood, what construction method, what hardware, what pickups and even what strings are on it, what it is plugged into and most of all, who's playing it. 

    My 1998 H150 came with SD 59's, and Nashville Tune-o-Matic and a zing stop bar.  It weighs a bit over 9lbs.  It also came with 70's era Les Paul potentiometer in it, namely, 300K/100k volumes and tones. So, it sounded pretty dark most of the time I've owned it. I had occasion to replace a pot, was surprised to find the values and put in the more commonly used "vintage" era 500k pots. Incredible difference in tone, much brighter, fuller and a touch more output. 

    I have a 60th Anniversary Gibson Les Paul 1960-Reissue, V2. It's 1 piece mahogany, no weight relief, 8lbs, 1oz in weight. It has the correct "'burst" era ABR-1 screwed into the wood and the light aluminum stop bar. It has the Custombucker III pickups, unpotted, alnico-III very PAF type in it, and the 50's era wiring.  It does that, "beefy telecaster" Les Paul thing, in spades. Plus, at 8lbs, it is a joy on my aging back. 

    These two sound incredibly different from each other, despite being so extremely similar in so many ways. 

    But my Gibson Les Paul sounds incredibly different than a Norlin era Les Paul with the pancake body and a maple neck, and different than an 11lb example from the 1980's with Tim Shaw's, or T-tops, or any of the overwound, ceramic magnet pickups they offered at the time. 

    So, really, no one can hear the "brand", but you can discern between instruments that were built differently, of different materials and methods, even if the brand and model are the same. 

    My just acquired 2001 H535 is super light and it gets that classic 335 tone. I had a 1997 ES335 "dot reissue" that sounded like poo, no matter what you did with it. 

    Well said. What if they did a blind test three times, all using the same exact guitar? How many times have each of us changed the tone of a single guitar by swapping out pickups? (I think the amp and the length of the cable makes a much bigger difference than the pickups.) Hell...  Billy Gibbons in recent years has been able to get a Les Paul tone out of a Telecaster by having his technician tweak the guitar and everything in the signal chain for his shows with ZZ Top. All we really need to do is pick one solid body guitar that feels good to play and that should theoretically be the last guitar we'll ever need because we can tweak it to sound like any solid body guitar ever made.

  2. I've been trying to figure out how to play with myself.... uh.... I mean... I want to play the drums and record it, and then play back my own drumming somehow like they do on guitar with loopers, and then play the guitar along with my own drumming. I'm guessing that I' have to record the drums into an MP3 format, then play that back from a laptop into a PA system, and then play the guitar with real amps. I've also thought about buying multiple loopers and connecting them to different amps so that I could walk around the room, play each part one at a time and setting each looper in motion. By the time I got all the way around the room, all the loopers would (in theory) be playing along with each other.

  3. On 12/26/2023 at 10:40 AM, OlePinelle said:

    Good tuesday,

    today I started to be a member of the Heritage Owners Club.

    I am living near Berlin/Germany and some years ago I bought 2nd hand a H-535 lefthand (built 2006) from France.

    Due to the fact that never saw something like a certificate of origin, my first question is if you know if there are fakes of H-535 existing and how it ist the best way to find out if your item is original or faked.

    Inside of my H-535 I find only a description of the type: H-535 as well the model: CSNB. Outside at the end is marked with silver colour the registration-number, beginn7ng with W, probalbly standing for built in 2006? 

    My 2nd question is if there is existing a paper with all values of distance how to adjust this instrument factory-like. I not find.

     

    If there is somebody who could give me satisfying answers I would be happy.

     

    Thank you in advance

     

    OlePinelle

    Berlin/Germany

     

    Guten Abend Herr OlePinelle,

    The guitar setups that I learned how to perform were on Gibson Les Paul guitars. The Heritage H-535 should use the same procedures to perform all of the setup adjustments because they both have basically the same parts.

     

  4. 10 hours ago, kennyv4 said:

    Because I own ten amps, I told myself that I was never going to buy another one.  I made a big mistake today stopping by Sam Ash to wish one of the managers a Merry Christmas.  While we were talking, I noticed a like new used Swart Atomic Space Tone amp with a night light attenuator. Well, that amp now resides in my music room.  I doubt I will ever use the attenuator, but it came with the amp.  Is there a cure for GAS? I think I need therapy.  

    I had never heard of them. They look interesting.

  5. 14 hours ago, greatmutah2112 said:

    I ordered that one from GC shortly after you traded it in.  Mostly still the same although I did swap the Schallers for Motor City Pickups Angeldusts.  It was great before but even better now.  Also had my luthier do a proper setup and replace the nut with an unbleached bone nut.  The stock one got too deep on the D string and needed to go. 
     

    Neck carve never bothered me. It wasn’t as thin as some guitars I’ve owned.  Could stand to be a little thicker but definitely playable. 

    Nice!!

  6. 7 hours ago, sisiay said:

    Hey there,

     

    I'm Chris, happy to have found this forum. I've had this 150 Deluxe (I think?) since Probably 1990, maybe even 1989 (memory is a bit foggy) but sadly it has sat unused for most of the the last 20 years or so. I remember when I was maybe 15 or 16 I swapped the pickups out for whatever combo of Seymour Duncans Slash had when he recorded Appetite, and I assumed the originals were lost, but visiting my parents for Thanksgiving (and being forced to go through some old boxes) I found the original Schallers. Seems like from this forum that may not be the good thing I thought it would be lol.

    Anyway, I wish I knew a bit more about the guitar, and more than that I wish I hadn't stopped playing so long ago, but here it is for anyone who's interested in a relatively old one...

     

     

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    Cool!!

  7. Correction... It seems that the little combo amp is a 20 Watt because I just noticed the thing on the back that said 20 watt RMS. So that would mean that it goes from 20 watts down to 5 watts. Then I reasoned that if that one had a marking like that on the back, then the big one might also say something like that too. Indeed it did. 100 watts RMS. Which is cool because for a long time I thought it was a 50 watt amp.

  8. 1 hour ago, rockabilly69 said:

    Don't know about the reissues, but the originals from the 80's were really good sounding. A close friend of mine gigged with one (2554), and I played that little combo many times. I'm more of a Fender Tweed guy then a Marshall guy, and I could say without a doubt, that I could get tones that were more to my liking than I expected.

    Yeah I can't imagine trying to buy an original as I'm guessing that they are extremely difficult to find and that if you actually found one, it would be WAY too expensive! So I don't really mind the reissue part. They seem to be one of the factory hot rodded models that sound good out of the box an don't require any modifications the way many have done with stock JCM 8000's. And this was also during a made pre-sellout year (where Marshall was sold to some non-English company) and I deem that to be a good thing.

  9. A small Ma&Pa guitar store in my area that I don't go to as often because I moved two counties away had a nifty little amp similar to one of my big amps and the price was too good to pass up, so I bought it.

    I like that Silver Jubilee thing that Marshall has been doing. This little combo amp is a model JCM 2525c and I think it is switchable between 50 watts and 25 watts. The big head that I bought a while back is a JCM 2555 and I think it goes from 100 watts down to 50 watts. Anyway, I also thought that you really can't go wrong with a little combo amp like that so upon seeing it I bought it on the spot.

     

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Gunny said:

    Hello and Hope all is well.

    Picked up a 2018 H-535 artisan aged today.  It’s an amazing guitar.  Light (7.6), resonant, cool checking and play’s wonderful.  I had a Gibson 59 Custom Shop VOS for a few years and never bonded with it.  It was heavier and the MHS picks ups never worked for me.  I have 3 wonderful vintage Gibson’s (46,57,61) made in the Kalamazoo factory that are stellar.  I feel like this has the same vibe and soul.  I had a chance to compare the H-535 today to many Custom Shop 335s,  Standards and Vintage.  This one took the cake.   Best 535/335 I’ve played and I’m not young :).   Thanks Heritage for making this guitar.  I’ve been looking for one like this for many years.  
    My Best, Gunny.IMG_8832.thumb.jpeg.fde8a8949b7a1cb35bc60f3726845cc5.jpeg

    Outstanding!

    Welcome!

     

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