Gibson Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited Revealed
Gibson has come up with some very innovative guitars in the last few years, incorporating features like automatic tuning, onboard EQ, and both magnetic and piezo pickups into the Dark Fire and Dusk Tiger models. However, a lot of folks haven’t really warmed up to the unorthodox aesthetic designs, despite the hi-tech features. Gibson heard the cries and has finally brought their pioneering high-tech wizardry to a guitar that looks just like a Les Paul. Actually it is a Les Paul: meet the Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited. Follow the jump for all the details.
Chameleon Tone Technology.
Analog or digital, the Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited gives you an infinite number of tonal possibilities to let you change the tone of the guitar to match your environment. And it begins with a guitar’s most basic element — the pickups. The 2010 Limited combines two of Gibson’s most popular pickups — the P90h in the neck position and a Burstbucker 3 in the bridge position. Both are capped with chrome covered pickup covers.
Acoustic Capability.
The Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited also gives you the ability to adjust and blend the acoustic sound from the piezo bridge pickup with the sound from the guitar’s traditional pickups. It does this by utilizing a revolutionary rotary potentiometer which is part of the pickup selector toggle switch. By twisting the switch’s head clockwise or counterclockwise, you can blend the piezo acoustic sound from zero percent acoustic sound (100 percent traditional pickups) to 100 percent acoustic sound (no traditional pickups).
Burstbucker 3.
The Burstbucker 3 arrived on the scene in 1990, and — like the Burstbucker 1 and 2 — represents Gibson’s drive to capture and recreate the characteristics of the vintage Patent Applied For humbuckers of the late 1950s. On the shop floor of the original Gibson plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., the earliest Gibson PAF humbuckers were wound using imprecise machines, resulting in pickups with varying degrees of output and tone. The Burstbucker line represents those variations, but with some modern appointments. The Burstbucker 3 provides historically accurate PAF tone with two slightly overwound coils, creating a raw, airy tone packed with enough punch to cut through any mix.
Gibson’s New P-90H Pickup
The new P-90H black soapbar pickup is another example of Gibson’s drive to stay one step ahead. This new pickup offers all of the soulful, classic tone of Gibson’s legendary P-90 singlecoil pickup, but with none of the 60-cycle hum that usually plagues traditional singlecoil pickups. Gibson’s pioneering engineers were then able to secure all of the P-90’s vintage sonic characteristics, and deliver the same high output and sweet treble response that still makes the P-90 one of the most desirable pickups in the world.
Piezo Bridge Pickup.
The Les Paul Standard 2010 Limited also features a revolutionary Gibson-designed piezo bridge pickup that actually consists of six individual piezo pickups — one for each saddle/string. These piezo pickups go through a studio-quality active amplifier that allows for a stronger and more natural acoustic guitar sound. Combined, the two classic electromagnetic pickups and the piezo bridge pickup are wired in such a way to allow each individual coil to be used in a switching matrix, giving you over 20 separate combinations of tone and an incredible array of tonal possibilities.
