Jesus christ what a gimmick (Gibson)...

[Metaltastic]

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LPPRANCH

And I have to assume it only works with Gibson pickups that are designed with the plug type thing it uses. Lame...

However, it sure looks sexy...

 

[JeffTD]

Hahaha they tried to do this a while ago - failed then, too!

 

[Ben Johnson]

And you'd probably scratch the hell out of your finish unless you slack the strings way down.

 

[JeffTD]

And you'd probably scratch the hell out of your finish unless you slack the strings way down.

Like Gibson's legal team, the pickups go in through the back.

 

[AdamWathan]

Like Gibson's legal team, the pickups go in through the back.

Seems dumb to me, I'd rather just wait til a string change to change pickups than lose a ton of body mass for giant pickup cavities that go straight through the body. The EMG quickconnect system is good enough for me as far as changing pickups go, I wish they could come up with a universal system like that that didn't step on anyone's toes legally. I think it would increase pickup sales for all companies if people could switch them out that easily, so I don't understand why they don't just agree upon a standard.

 

[Horus27Soilworker]

Did anyone see how overpriced Gibsons "new" explorer and v's are?

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Talking to my friend (works at nashville gibson making pups) it seems that the owner is more interested in making stupid "next gen" guitars than he is in making a decent instrument. I had heard a rumor that Gibson is/will be making there bodies lighter by not putting so much wood on/in them.

Sucks. Gibson has gotten to big to serve the musician properly.

 

[Let it burn...]

kinda reminds me of an Ampeg Dan Armstrong

 

[Morgan138]

I think it would be pretty neat for someone to make adaptors that you could wire a pickup into, and then switch in and out of a guitar with an EMG-style jack for the wires. But definitely not at the expense of hollowing out the whole body, ugh.

 

[everybody's x]

Hahaha they tried to do this a while ago - failed then, too!

back in the day those were originally made so they could demo different pickups for customers, they were just a salesman's tool.

 

[K Odell]

Talking to my friend (works at nashville gibson making pups) it seems that the owner is more interested in making stupid "next gen" guitars than he is in making a decent instrument. I had heard a rumor that Gibson is/will be making there bodies lighter by not putting so much wood on/in them.

Sucks. Gibson has gotten to big to serve the musician properly.

Seems as they are doing that now. When I went les paul shopping I tried out the classic series and when I picked one up I had to ask the sales person "this isnt a real les paul?". It literally weighed as much as my s-series. So I went with a custom instead. Way to go Gibson

 

[everybody's x]

Seems as they are doing that now. When I went les paul shopping I tried out the classic series and when I picked one up I had to ask the sales person "this isnt a real les paul?". It literally weighed as much as my s-series. So I went with a custom instead. Way to go Gibson

I noticed that too, my les pauls weigh a ton and the LP's at guitar center don't.

 

[JBroll]

And this week's "Why the FUCK are you surprised?" award goes to...

People surprised to see shit coming out of Gibson!

Jeff

 

[LSD-Studio]

fuck..., musicstores here in Germany got them for free to showcase the gibson pups.
now they're actually trying to sell them as something special??

 

[viggen666]

stupid, it takes me about 15 minutes to change a pickup... and then i'm still spending most time on screwing the pickups to the pickup rings...