My Edwards Vs my Gibson LP...no bull! (clips)

[metalheadUK]

I thought some of you might be interested in this.

I've been asked to do a bit of a comparison between my Recently aqquired Edwards LP, and one of my Gibsons. I used my Les Paul Standard as it seemed closest in spec to the Edwards.

The Guitars:

The Edwards is a E-LP-90LT(LMD) Lemon Drop, Lacquer taste, 2006.

It weighs in at a comfy 8 pounds.

It is fitted with Seymour Duncan pickups, JB at the bridge and a 59 at the neck.

The Gibson is a 2005 Les Paul Standard, weighing in at 9 pounds(ish)

It is fitted with the original Burstbucker pickups it came with.

Here are some comparisons from my point of view. These are my opinions, your mileage may vary.

Both guitars are strung 10-46.

The Edwards is slightly lighter, and on close inspection seems very slightly better finished than the Gibson. Both guitars are Nitro finished, but I have heard that Edwards shoots the top coat over poly, whereas Gibson is all nitro. The Gibson is nicely finished, but does have some small blemishes.

The Edwards neck is a bit chunkier than the Les Pauls 60's neck.

The Edwards has a bone nut, the Gibson is plastic.

The Gibson has a real flamed maple cap..the Edwards is a flamed veneer over plain maple.

I personally prefer the sound of the Edwards neck pickup, and the Gibsons bridge pickup.

I also prefer the nickel hardware on the Gibson, but I do like the Edwards, ABR style bridge.

Both of them play very very nicely, the Edwards POSSIBLY edging it.

The Gibson seems toi have slightly better sustain.

The Edwards has the best long tenon neck joint I have ever seen:

The Gibson has the usual production short tenon.

The neck angle on the Gibson seems better..the bridge is not up so high.

Overall in UK pounds at street prices, the Edwards seem to come in after importing them and paying taxes and stuff here in the uk at about ?450- ?500.
The UK street price on a new Les Paul Standard comes in at ?1400- ?1500, but the Gibson does include a hard case...the Edwards comes with a gig bag.

And now some clips.

To try to simplify things, both guitars were run with tone/volume on full into a VOX AD30VT with the gain up. 2 settings were used, boutique clean, and boutique overdrive, both with a little reverb, and the amp was DI'd into my soundcard.

NOTHING was tweaked or changed..the tone may not be great, but both guitars were on completely equal footing.

If you can think of anything you would like to know that I have missed, let me know!

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[japanstrat]

Interesting.
Well to me the edwards is more on the treble side especially the neck pickup.
Overall I liked the Gibson better.
It seemed to have that Gibson fat midrange tone that I'm used to.
The Edwards bridge was not too bad especially the clean stuff.
I usually play a USA Fender Lead I (a Telecaster Strat cross) with a Seymour Duncan JB in it so I should be used to how the JB sounds but I'm going with the Gibson pickups.
The long tenon vs standard tenon doesn't mean much to me.
I didn't notice the Edwards having more sustain than the Gibson.
But tone is all a matter of taste.

 

[Ozeshin]

I usually play a USA Fender Lead I (a Telecaster Strat cross) with a Seymour Duncan JB in it so I should be used to how the JB sounds but I'm going with the Gibson pickups.

Wow...small world.
I own a USA Fender Lead II.
I bought it about 25 years ago for $500(AUD) brand new with a hard case.
It's like a short scale strat with a single humbucker.