Gibson Les Paul Standard Premium Plus Review

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Overall Rating 4.54

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Features 4.46

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Quality 4.62

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Reliability / Value 4.41

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Gibson Les Paul Standard Premium Plus Specs

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  • Body Shape: LP  
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  • Number of Strings: 6  
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  • Body Type: Solid Body  
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  • Scale Length: 24-3/4"  
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  • Body Construction: Single cutaway  
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  • Body Wood: Mahogany  
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  • Body Top Wood: Maple  
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  • Finish: Gloss  
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  • Binding: Creme  
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  • Carved Top: Yes  
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  • Pickguard: Yes  
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  • Neck Shape: '50s  
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  • Neck Joint: Set neck  
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  • Neck Wood: Mahogany  
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  • Fingerboard Material: Rosewood  
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  • Fingerboard Inlays: Trapezoid  
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  • Number of Frets: 22  
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  • Nut Width: 1.6875" (1-11/16")  
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  • String Nut: Corian  
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  • Tuners: Grover  
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  • Bridge: Tune-O-Matic  
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  • Hardware: Nickel  
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  • Fret Size: Classic  
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  • Number of Pickups: 2  
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  • Pickup Switch Type: 3-way Pickup Selector  
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  • Bridge Pickup Type: Humbucker  
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  • Neck Pickup Type: Humbucker  
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  • Controls: Volume  
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  • Controls: Tone  
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  • New Burstbucker Pro pickups with alnico V magnets

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Gibson is a company that you can count on and be sure that they know their job, and that's building great instruments. Another model from Gibson named Les Paul Standard Premium Plus outperforms and outranks sound-wise many other models in its price range. It's well worth the price.

This guitar is fitted with all the features you could possibly wish for, for a playing style that goes with this kind of instrument. Carefully chosen features leave no guitar player's desire unfulfilled, which makes Gibson's Les Paul Standard Premium Plus an extremely well featured guitar with which you'll be thoroughly pleased. Highest grades for Les Paul Standard Premium Plus's features!

A great sounding guitar such as Gibson's Les Paul Standard Premium Plus deserves respect, and Gibson deserves the best marks for producing a beautiful sounding instrument such as this one. You can play Les Paul Standard Premium Plus with most amps, clean or distorted and it will sound superbly. Hardware is easily adjustable to help you to get your tone. Les Paul Standard Premium Plus guitar is fun to play. Inspirational instrument, that's for sure.

Ready to play out of the box, Gibson's Les Paul Standard Premium Plus is easy to set it up even more precise than usual, thanks to great hardware pieces it has built in. Handling and playing this kind of guitar is a pure joy as it stays in tune 90% of the time, regardless of the level of usage. It feels reliable and it really is, as Gibson put great deal of time and effort to produce such a good-looking guitar that is behaving well, as Les Paul Standard Premium Plus does.

If you need an instrument that withstands live performances and studio sessions, rehearsals and practicing, you should rest assured that Gibson's Les Paul Standard Premium Plus is the right choice. This instrument is definitely built to last and will do so , through fire and flames. Gibson has the knowledge and experience you can rely on, and that kind of experience is well built into Les Paul Standard Premium Plus.