i think only idiots in the comments section start internet fights not the person making the video. they don't even pay attention to it, all they see is what the title says so every fanboy and his mother gets triggered over nothing. oh btw this same guy also made a video about 5 reasons the Strat was better than the Les Paul, but he also mentions in that video as well as this one that he's not saying better overall. i have actually played both guitars so im quite familiar with them. there are strengths and weaknesses to both.
How to use a gibson les paul..... Trade it and buy a ibanez, esp ltd, schecter, and a jackson. Maybe 2 of each, all of which play better than a gibson... )Outta tune Gibson players) but my guitar looks so pretty.... Not $5000 pretty
@@Robert5185 yeah strat bridge pickup sound sucks to me actually.. very thin, super scratchy and excessively bright, probably useful if you play scratchy funk songs..but i don't really do that, i think that's why EVH replaced his bridge pickup with humbucker.
Mine always finds its way to E A Db Gb B E. I love Les Paul and Strats equally. I see them as different weapons for different fronts...if that makes sense.
Sore Tuber I don’t remember the name but probably. Does that product act effectively? I don’t know I don’t have one yet, I solved that issue another way for the moment but I’ll probably try one someday. The way I did it isn’t the better stability option but does the job good for me at the moment
I have a Strat and a Les Paul and they are both great guitars. You don't have to choose sides and one is not better than the other. They are just different. You can limit yourself and pick one or you can enjoy both of them and play what you feel at the time.
Dude, I'm a Strat player for 25 years, I read some comments while watching the vid. Just bought a Les Paul, I love it and it made me appreciatte my Strat. Gotta love both but there are reasons why one is better than the other in certain situations, everything is subjective. So bravo for putting this out, I get it because I love both, I'm sure you do as well.
Crazy Kong I love strat tone but I find that my fat fingers are too crowded on a strat. I am always knocking it on the volume and pickup selector and I am always hitting the middle pickup with my hands when I use no pick. One thing les Paul got right was the layout of the controls. Peace
Exactly....owning both is like having Boardwalk and Park Place in a monopoly game. lol. The deal breaker for me with a strat is the dumb place where they put the volume knob. It's precisely in the way of where I pick and I'm always hitting it.
1: I’ve never had a noisy strat (you can always use a noise gate) 2: love the feel of maple necks (play 9’s) 3: strats have incredible sustain 4: The tone of a strat is second to none 5: Fender strats can be customized in every was possible. I will say, Gibson explorers don’t look too bad
les pauls are way better than strats if your only playing power chords.. but as someone who likes more technical/interesting stuff a strat feels so amazing...
Noise gates suck. Les Pauls almost always have better sustain than Strats, just because of the difference in mass. And the tone of a Strat is great...if you want something that sounds like a Strat. Strats can only ever sound like a Strat, they are incapable of venturing beyond the tonal boundaries of the "Strat sound". Les Pauls are far more tonally versatile.
Les pauls are heavier in Weight, shorter scale, single cut, less clear in tone. Anything a les paul can do strats do better. Strats were made as an update to the telecaster. The les paul was made to compete with the tele (which i still think the tele wins) its like saying which is better, nokia phone or modern smartphone. Well nokia dont break hurr durr durr
I just love guitars!! Really Les Pauls are awesome and Strats are awesome. Strats are way easier to keep in tune and generally manage. Les Pauls have a certain sound and I love it. Maybe we should split the difference and everyone buy a Telecaster!!!!
I'm with Toby. I would argue quality control is better with Fender than it is with Gib... But there are better options. Heratige, gretsch, ric, music man etc make better quality instruments a lot of the time. I hate PRS because it popularized emo and butt rock but even those are often better made...
@@sorrenblitz805 In the way that they are light guitars with single coils and a different scale length which leads them to have no balls. It's a stupid point to argue, dude. Hard Rock is full of Les Pauls. Strats have their place. Hell, they may even be better guitars overall, but arguing that they have the balls of a Les Paul makes you look inexperienced and silly.
well spoken. i personally like the belly cuts on strats cant seem to get them on a gib lp. i do have a epi lp ultra 2 that has a belly cut and love it wish it had a easy access neck!
For comfort you can't beat the Strat. The LP looks like a jazz guitar yet jazz guitarists tend to shun them. They are body heavy, Strats are lighter and better balanced. More fret access top and bottom for the Strat. Strats are much easier to modify.
Kennis Russell Awesome. I really like this kind of video but I got a little worried when I got the notification and saw the title. I said to myself "Careful Kennis, that's a pretty bold claim there."
actually when you said the scale lenth is longer, it can also mean that you can play downtuning on a strat and strings wouldnt be as wobbly and therefore could still have the actions low on bridge settings. besides that, i guess strat is slightly lighter, easier changeable neck, double cut means you could have your thumb access on the upper frets and less wide neck means you could barre chord more easily, last, the tremolo. thats all ?
Felix Burke one of each for sure. I spent years and years trying to buy, build, modify guitars so I could get good start and les Paul tones. I finally gave up and realised it's better to get one strat one l.p.
Jake Anderson, on my LP coil splits bring P-90 alike sound. Of course there is nothing stratty, but it is nice option and one of classic LP tones. Also I love phase reverse. Gotta learn to play Rattlesnake Shake.
In the end you gota love and have both or you are seriously missing out. That said here are some advantages of a strar over a les paul: 1: The strings follow a straight line after the nut to the tuning machines, unlike a gibson where they fan out. This makes a strat hold tuning better. 2: the neck and headstock on a strat are not known to break. 3: modular design means all parts are replaceable, if it breaks you don't need to buy a wholr new guitar. also you can mix and match strat parts. 4: pickgaurd can be replaced so you can have any combination of humbuckers or single coils in neck and bridge. 5: tremolo system. 6: price. 7: more pickup combination and tone options. 8: easier access to higher frets. 9: lighter 10: more ergonomic, forearm and belly cuts. slimer. 11: consistent quality, no lemons. 12: easier and faster pickup switching. 13: you can do fast volume adjustment WHILE playing with well placed volume knob.
#1- les Paul costs less! #2- Gibson has never had any quality control issues! #3- the les Paul neck never breaks, whereas all strats are vulnerable to breakage at the headstock! #4- PAF pickups obviously consistently and magically have so much more note definition and clarity that the ever muddy single coils on the strat. #5- the gibsons 3 way toggle gives you way more tone options than the lousy 5 way lever switch of the strat.
Daniel Bell Played them both and both have positive and negatives. Les Pauls have way more tuning problems than the Strat especially that g string. Drives me up the wall. Les Pauls have always cost more and are heavier though sustain and output is better. Sometimes I have made the Pauls my main instrument(especially for slide) but eventually I always return to Teles and Strats. In the end...it's up to each player which is best for them. If I had to choose and only could play one guitar...it would be a Telecaster type guitar.
The Les Paul is the pretty girl you take home to mother. The Fender Strat is the bar fly you get drunk with and take back to a cheap hotel for some fun.
Ruckus Tom nah, I think I disagree, les Paul's have such a nasty tone, and the strat just has a such a pretty tone, and just look at all the bad boys that played Gibsons, then all the goody two shoes that played fenders
Strat players: Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rory Gallagher, Ritchie Blackmore, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton. Les Paul players: Peter Green, Jimmy Page and Paul Kossoff and Randy Rhoads, Slash and ? ? sorry don't remember. Guess to me Strat wins. Sure Gibson sounds good, but to me there's no doubt Strats are the most versatile guitars.
Ginger Beer Well yes, Gary Moore used both Strats and Les Pauls. It doesnt make sense to compare them to say which is better. They are just tools, as colors to chose in an artist's palette. We can say which we prefer, and that is subjective. But objectively is like comparing apples to pears.
I used to endorse Gibson LP and played them on all recordings / videos during my early career in the '90s, however I have come to also love the Fender Strat for it's unique properties. My Strat string preference (as well as David Gilmour's) are GHS Boomers 8.5.
#6: Gibson heads break off if you look at it hard... BUT; an "Expert" at Guitar Center told me that gluing the heads back on makes them sound better. Better than what? Better than they sound with the head separated from the neck? Or, better than they sound before the head broke off?
1- Strat is lighter 2- More comfortable (contoured body) 3- Has a more cutting/trebling sound (I like this) 4- Has a vibrato arm (I like this) But I like these two models. The best way is to have them both. :)
Whatever works. I prefer Les Pauls. Thicker tone, more heft, slightly shorter neck...for my single coil tones, I go for a Les Paul Special. I love Strats, especially clean on the neck pickup, but i hate playing them. The feel and way a Les Paul sits in my hands works for me.
I remember looking through the windows of music shops when I was a kid drooling over these guitars. It took me a long time to get them, but I love my Strat and Les Paul. They both do different jobs. For versatility and for sparkling cleans nothing (I mean nothing) comes close to a Strat through a beautiful clean tube amp. Everyone needs a bit of rock and that's when you've got to reach for the Les Paul. The shear bulk in terms of the sound that a Les Paul produces through a cranked valve amp is unmistakable. Humbucker equipped Strats can't replace that. They sound a lot bigger than a single coiled Strat, but they still retain much more brightness than a Les Paul to my ear.
When using dirty/overdriven tones, a Les Paul has a bossy sound on lower frequencies and a bell-like sound on the higher frequencies. A Strat reminds me of a kazoo in overdrive situations.
I had a Strat for a long time. It served its purpose. One day a friend told me to try out his Les Paul. It was like I had never played a real guitar before. A friend of mine bought a Telecaster a few years ago. I brought over my Les Paul and told him to try it out. He said "all the difficulties I was having on my guitar immediately went away when I played yours." I am a tall guy with big hands and fingers, my friend is very short with small hands. This is just my experience, but just sayin....
Nah. Strats are better 1 - the necks don't brake 2 - Strats are lighter 3 - Strats can come with humbuckers or P90's or mini Humbs or... 4 - Strats have more tonal options between their pups 5 - A longer scale is good for downtunings [I have my strat on B]
David I was gonna say all of these points and a few more. the debates as to weather you even need a tone nob haha. also tuning stability. And who gives a damn about humming to alot of people single coils sound so much better. so preach what you say dude
guys stop with the dislikes. which guitar you buy is all about personal preference first and foremost. kennis makes some good point on areas where the les paul is better than the strat but he did not say one is unquestionable better than the other.
well it depends on music you play pink floyd def strat, guns and roses gibson, however i have heard people play guns and roses on strat and sound really good,
Since I'm from Detroit, this reminds me of the old Ford vs. Chevy HS cafetria food fights. Both of these guitars were originally built by men and women who were committed to fashioning very high quality instruments. When the bean counters took over, their only concern was for THE BOTTOM LINE. They closed their factories, laid off all the craftsmen and craftswomen, opened robot factories in Corona and Nashville and began cranking out guitars that were no better than any imports at FIVE TIMES the price. Incidently, in addition to one of the last Tele's to come out of the Fullerton plant, I have 2 Strats and an LP.. My Epiphone LP 100 was made in China and both Affinity Strats are from the Cort factory in Indonesia. Even with my customising touches, none cost more than $200US and they all play and sound as well as snotty-nosed US products at a fraction of the $$.
Not better, just different. Stack up the most revered tone smiths ever and they almost all play Strats. Clapton, Hendrix, SRV, Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Blackmore, etc., etc.
My old bandmate was crazy about Les Pauls, but he always played his strat more. I always wondered why. It wasn't the tuning issue, because he had to retune his strat during sessions too. It wasn't the weight, he's a big guy, old HS wrestling champion. However, I never thought about the scale difference. The man has giant sausage fingers, I was always amazed at how he could play so well. I never played my Squire Strat much, I kept to my Epi SG. The scale length never entered my mind, probably for that very reason. Bill's frets were further apart, giving his giant fingers more room. Btw: For fifteen years, my sg was one with P90s. I know everyone calls that glassy strat sound a "single coil" sound, but my P90s didn't sound glassy . Also: his excuse was because it was easier to play slide, but he hardly ever used his slide.
I own a Beautiful Les Paul Custom and a 2004 50th Anniversary American Stratocaster. I play the Stratocaster and look at the beauty of the Les Paul hanging on the wall. Pick up the Les Paul once every month or so and play it until my neck and back starts to hurt from the weight. Not to say, having to constantly tuning it. Stratocaster feels like a perfect fitting glove and stays in tune no matter what or how I play.
Resonance is the vibrations felt in the body. Sustain is how long a note sounds. The LP has the best sustain and the worst resonance. It separates the strings from the body through the stoptail bridge and also the angled headstock puts more pressure on the nut which increases sustain.
Sustain is how loud a note remains after the attack. There are 4 components to a soundwave's volume over time in sound and music production. Attack - How long it will take a note to fade in, from silence to peak Decay - How long it will take a note to fade out on it's own while being held Sustain - How much volume is lost immediately after the peak Release - How long after a note is released does it take to fade out and stop reverberating An example would be a flute having more sustain than a sitar. The flute peaks as soon as it is blown into sufficiently to hold a note, and since the peak it remains the same volume. The sitar has a shorter attack time since it is plucked, but after the peak the volume drops significantly, meaning the sustain is lower. That is why the strat has less sustain the les paul. With it's bolt on neck and hollow body, the sound is dampened immediately. The les paul having more sustain makes it sound fuller, richer and warmer. The strat as a consequence sounds plucky and thin, whereas the les paul sounds full and smooth.
Bullcrap List ... Here is the Right list. Strats are better 1 - the necks don't brake and are tougher 2 - Strats are lighter 3 - Strats can come with humbuckers or P90's or mini Humbs or... 4 - Strats have more tonal options between their pups 5 - A longer scale is good for downtunings [I have my strat on B] 6 - Whammy Bar 7 - Easier to Modify and Customized 8 - More comfortable to Play 9 - Easier to Replace a part 10 - Strats are far easier to get in tune and stay in tune 11 - Best cleans ever with single coils 12 - Less compression, more dynamics with single coils
:-)... Yea right... LP and STRAT is nothing else than two different guitars which gives you the best of two worlds. You only need these two to cover everything. I love them both....
The video title should've been. 5 ways Les Paul is different than a Stratocaster. It's not better just different. Strats more tonal options, sound better clean, are beautifully designed. Les Paul's quieter, easier to play, hotter pickups. Just different guitars,not better just different. Strats are built like a tank:= Alpha male. Les Paul's are fragile.:=Pretty girl
One thing I don't understand about the Strat is the 2 Tone knobs. On a Mexican Strat, there is no way to control the Tone of the bridge pickup. On the American Standard, none of the Tone controls work for the middle pickup (position 3). I thought that only my guitar had that issue, but I tested several guitars at the store and the same thing happens. Regardless, I find the 2 Tone controls a bit confusing, or maybe I don't know exactly how they are supposed to work. One mod I did is replace the 2 Tone control for a Blending Pod, Wich allows me to blend the bridge and neck pickup and get a Tele twang type of sound, + all the standard Strat tones. Pretty cool, but the mod cost around 80$
Tele deluxe has entered the chat Humbuckers is typing Les Paul has left the chat Tele and strat have friended tele deluxe The chat has been renamed FENDER ROCKS
Credit where credit is due: Gibson pioneered the PAF (when is that patent actually ever going to be granted?!) but these days there are some great humbucker Fenders just like there are some great single-coil Gibsons available... not to mention a slew of other brands with either or both. Long story short, play what you like.
backwater j I recently invested in a tele deluxe and put the mule ( bare knuckle humbucker, probs the best one around) and the put the fender humbucker in the bridge great combo but Gibson’s pickups are very good quality
@@thegoldenkniet7802 Been wanting to try out those bare knuckles, but so much else crying out to spend that money on. Ultimately you'll find the pickup you like or you'll make it (personally it's been about 50/50 but I'm a techie/cheapskate ;) ) but most of what drives your sound is your playing style.
I definitely hear you on the easier to play aspect. . . sometimes the strat feels wicked tight and you cant get stuff out easier and the les paul feels so smooth and easy. . . .David Gilmour used les pauls a lot in the studio and the strat live i feel like the strat is an adrenaline based instrument.
LPs are nice but… 1. My strat has a humbucker in the bridge, and a damn good one too. 2. Stay in tune way better, especially since mine has the staggered posts 3. Five way selector, plus even less noise than a humbucker in position 4 (and 2 on SSS strats) 4. Headstock is unlikely to break, and neck is easily replaceable. 5. Longer scale length works for me; tighter strings are less floppy and more consistent. 6. Best cleans ever with single coils 7. Less compression and more versatility with single coils 8. You can go from HSS to HSH to HH to H to SSS, all just by swapping out a pickguard and soldering a couple wires. 9. Most, if not all strats, do have a tone wired to bridge pickup. Probably the most vital part of a SSS guitar. 10. More notable guitarists used them, including: Hendrix SRV Clapton John Mayer Van Halen Yngwie Malmsteen Adrian Smith Beck Gilmour Gallagher Buddy Holly Knopfler Frusciante Townshend Eric Johnson But I can see where you're coming from, and Gibson certainly has a great thing going (Huge Lifeson fan). Thanks for making the video my dude
I have owned both, the Strat default tone is generally thinner but more brighter and jangly than an L.P. The LP default tone is a lovely thick creamy slighty mushy sound. You choose .
You make some good points. But if you do a Strat rebuttal, I would include price point, versatility, and most importantly weight. Les Pauls are boat anchors. Especially if you have an older one.
Better is subjective, Gibson Les Paul is more versatile and easier to play, no that's not my opinion, but scientific fact. if you can only afford one guitar, get a les paul, strats have there strengths over a les paul but nothing much, overall a les paul will serve you better.
A longer scale guitar has more harmonics and sounds better to me. In fact the only sector in which les paul is better than strat is the potentiometers and dial in tone and the appearance. In everything else fender rules
did you listen to the vid or just start angrily typing as soon as you saw the title?? He is NOT saying gibsons are better. He is pointing out 5 AREAS in which they are. He also has a vid where he points out where fender triumphs. But he is not saying one is definitely objectively better.
You should compare a Strat to an SG, and a Les Paul to a Tele. I know the Strat is older than the SG, but clearly the Les Paul is meant to compete with the Telecaster. Therefore the SG, the main Gibson double cut, is supposed to compete against the main Fender double cut. With that in mind, the ES series is probably the real Strat competitor historically, but the SG is a solid body, so it fits better.
Past and current success. Not to mention the plethora of companies that just make slightly modified copies and think themselves original. (cause gibson and fender pretty much covered it all)
Franky FourFingers lmao you trying to insult/bully me over the internet over a comment I left weeks ago, pathetic! Sounds like a personal problem. Have a good one I don't argue over the internet...
I think your comments clearly demonstrate who the 13 year old is. Leave the comments section to adults who don’t resort to petty immature name calling when someone doesn’t share their opinion.
I love Strats ! but I love Les Paul's a lot more !!! the playability of the Paul is much better for me. absolutely the best video in a very long time, you did excellent Sir. all the best to you and you're family Sir. but a 25" scale length tele's deluxe (humbuckers and controls like a Paul, hardtail bridge) ain't a bad choice either !!!
He does say it’s completely subjective. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got two strats but they look so cliché to the point where they just look cheap. LPs are way more attractive
Strats are far easier to get in tune and stay in tune. Les Pauls are almost impossible to get correctly tuned and intonated due to their inherently flawed design.
all of them , the LP is not better then a Strat ...its just another guitar that looks and sounds different ,its not better at all , a Strat can do everything a LP can do ..but not the other way around . The LP is by far the better made ..but the worst guitar to repair and they are very easy to break , in my opinion the best LP guitars are not made by Gibson at all , Gibson have never in over 60yrs addressed the biggest problems the LP has eg: staying in tune and the headstock breaking off and try getting one re-fretted , Gibson offer many guitars but almost are all the same ...fixed bridge and 2 humbuckers , Strats come in many different ways ...SSS, HSS, HSH , HHH , lipsticks , P90´s , with Piezo , and also midi . the guitar is stronger will stay better in tune ( even with a wammy, something that LP´s dont have ) is much easier to fix , I also say that some of the best Strats are not made by Fender ....to sum this up the LP is a greate guitar but so is the Strat and a Tele and so on , they all have there place in music :)
Its just a guitar, the way you play it is what counts , the person is in charge and not the guitar I can get a Tele to sound like Brian May if I want , give it the right efects and play it the right way , the sound of any guitar comes from the player and the way you play it ...and not from its shape :)
I personally prefer Les Pauls because the pickups have separate volume and tone knobs. But ESP Eclipses (which are very similar) are better imo because most of them have 24 fret (however, they only have one tone knob).
Stratocaster is good, but was always made from the start as a high volume, mass production "product". Fender literally used people off the street to "assemble" his guitars. At the same time, Gibson were still building mainly by hand, by skilled luthiers with years of training. That is why Fender did it - real (Gibson) guitars were too expensive for the average person, so he wanted to make a cheap guitar that anyone could afford. As Fender grew in popularity, they got greedy. Now they charge thousands for their guitars - going against Leo Fender's original idea. Fenders are grossly over priced, and Gibson should also be a lot cheaper now given they are mostly built with CNC machines. In a true world, a basic Fender Strat should be around $500-$600 and a Les Paul around $1200-$1500.
Stratocaster a product? Man! I thought the product was the guitar that easily breaks, that the tuning sucks, and that has only 3 pickup combinations...
This argument might actually hold weight if gibsons quality control wasnt the worst in the entire industry. Saying it currently makes you look like a idiot.
tension is equal because it's a function of pitch. However you will get more torque = easier to bend on a strat. It depends mostly on your string choice though. I think that reason was pretty irrelevant
Gibson blows fender out of the water. The Les paul was co-designed by Les Paul. an actual guitar player. the fenders stink!. the fretboards are radiused, which means bending just doesn't work out right the headstock is flat which means there's not enough downward pressure from the nut to the tuners which means less sustain and tuning issues. the pickups mount to a plastic pick guard instead of the wood, so you get a twangy sound instead of the rich natural wood tones. Gibson is a quality instrument co-designed by a real guitarist..."Les Paul". fenders are junk. the greats who played fenders had to have them worked over to make them playable. Shoot if you buy a new fender you have to have it setup correctly... that's because fender knows you are going to have to spend money to make it sound and play right, so they don't put in the extra work to setup it correctly... most fender owners immediately swap out the stock pickups. Gibson owners... it's plug and play because you can't beat those paf pickups Gibson makes.
Ray Davis Yeah, Gibson headstocks are sooo well designed, Stay in tune better, No one ever has had to replace the tuners on a gibson for locking tuners in hope to hold stability better, And no one could really like that twangy sound, Of course you would want a guitar that has a lot of bass and middle! And thank god you don't have to spend that much money on a gibson!!
i am definitely a gibson guy and if given the choice i would go with an es335 anyday. With that said, Fenders have value and i love my tele. Why be so chauvanistic?
Different tools for different jobs. It's almost like saying a knife is better than a fork. I've got a few of both and I pick which guitar I'm going to play based on the set list.
Noggest, good point. I agree that there's more to the guitar world than Gibson & Fender. I'm a fan of Schecter Guitar Research. Great quality at a great price. I've had 3 Stilettos: Diamond & Diamond Elite in both 4 & k string models. Only still have the 4 string. They feel more substantial to me & have a fuller, ballsier sound than Ibbys do. I did have a SR 505 that was pretty nice. It was actually TOO clean for my taste, & lacked the great sustain of all the Schecters (ESPECIALLY the 2 Elite models).
Lol, "better tone". Man I remember the times 10 years ago when I thought guitars shredders use was the best, give it a few more years kid and you'll feel silly ever using an Ibanez.
Franky FourFingers seriously man?? metal,jazz,rock,blues,country guitarist all of them are musicians and all of them have a pro and cons if u can play jazz congratulation but just dont disrespect other genre guitarist........(sorry for bad english)
Speaking of the volume, you can always turn the volume all the way down on the pickup you aren't going to use, and turns the pickup selector into a mute switch. Need to set the guitar down, but don't want to switch off you tube amp? Flip that toggle and avoid the string noise and inevitable feedback. Heck, in between songs we'd end up talking, even during some shows, and the people who didn't have the two tone two volume set up would forget what they were doing sometimes and we'd get all kinds of noise.
It's the age-old apples to oranges comparison. Strats have that country-SRV type of sound that only a strat makes. A les paul just sounds huge & is unlike anything else. Tone!
Honestly, the biggest difference that I notice is the fretboard radius. It's a lot easier to play higher on the fretboard on a Les Paul than it is on a Strat just because it's a lot flatter.
Coming from playing classical guitar, it was an easy decision. The flat radius alone, as compared to mostly 9.5" on most of the fenders was enough to sway me...chording on a flat neck isn't difficult if you have proper form.
It saddens me that this video is getting so many down votes. Not because I'm a Gibson fan [I'm surely not] but because people don't seem to understand this is the first part of a 2 video set, in which Kennis will share his thoughts on why Strats are better than Les Pauls [the opposite of this one]. The man is just sharing his opinions [even if they are based on the usually perceived]. Calm down people.
Bolt on necks have great sustain when set up well. The metal in the bolts are denser than the wood and send a full vibration through the body and neck. a poorly set up neck will choke sustain.
I agree with point 4, dialing in the tone--at least on the bridge pickup of standard strats. On the other hand, position 2 makes up for it in many ways, and the the bridge and middle pickups work together essentially like a humbucker.
The tension part is not true. A longer string requires more tension yes, but the fact it is longer alors makes it more flexible and easier to bend. So it actually compensates for the extra tension.
I have both bc I love them for their separate polar opposite personalities it's like comparing a Phillip's head to a flat head screwdriver.. 2 completely different tools for 2 different. purposes. Both useful. I Thank god for both!
You might as well called this video "How to start an internet fight".
Some Guy people get way to wound up about this shit
Juuuust like this :-D
Some Guy "tonewood is a myth"
He is dissing strats..but he has one, think about it.
i think only idiots in the comments section start internet fights not the person making the video. they don't even pay attention to it, all they see is what the title says so every fanboy and his mother gets triggered over nothing. oh btw this same guy also made a video about 5 reasons the Strat was better than the Les Paul, but he also mentions in that video as well as this one that he's not saying better overall. i have actually played both guitars so im quite familiar with them. there are strengths and weaknesses to both.
1 reason to buy a les paul : you like les paul tone.
1 reason to buy a strat : you like strat tone.
1 reason to buy neither: you like EVH tone.
1 reason to buy [x]: you like [x] tone. Not to discount playability, but if you want to sound good, you want to... sound good, nes pas?
Yep
How to use a gibson les paul..... Trade it and buy a ibanez, esp ltd, schecter, and a jackson. Maybe 2 of each, all of which play better than a gibson... )Outta tune Gibson players) but my guitar looks so pretty.... Not $5000 pretty
@@Robert5185 yeah strat bridge pickup sound sucks to me actually.. very thin, super scratchy and excessively bright, probably useful if you play scratchy funk songs..but i don't really do that, i think that's why EVH replaced his bridge pickup with humbucker.
I love my Gibson tuning :D
E
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E
Mine always finds its way to E A Db Gb B E. I love Les Paul and Strats equally. I see them as different weapons for different fronts...if that makes sense.
They sell products to fix that issue, making the strings exit straight out of the nut. Stretching your strings properly helps a lot too
@@moimeme7839 string butlers?
Sore Tuber I don’t remember the name but probably. Does that product act effectively? I don’t know I don’t have one yet, I solved that issue another way for the moment but I’ll probably try one someday. The way I did it isn’t the better stability option but does the job good for me at the moment
Best Gibson joke ever:)
I have a Strat and a Les Paul and they are both great guitars.
You don't have to choose sides and one is not better than the other.
They are just different.
You can limit yourself and pick one or you can enjoy both of them and play what you feel at the time.
When you don’t care because you play on a tele.
Telecasters are the best
Hahahahhaa
I play on an sg
@@arturom9145 I wonder why the Tele and SG don't get compared head to head like the Strat and Les
@@ItsRyan265 cause they both suck
don't like fender ....but I think fender has the best clean sound on the planet...period!....
rock azhell I prefer Gibsons too, because I want some "dirt" in my sound. Hope you get me xD
if you like dirt i can bury you in the ground lol jk.
True. I really dislike the way they look and feel, but god damn they sound good clean.
rock azhell same i always play with distortion with my les paul but clean tone strat is the way to go.
correct :)
offended strat owners incoming...
(don't kill me, I love strats)
Lol u spittin'...
And I also love strats haha.
Dude, I'm a Strat player for 25 years, I read some comments while watching the vid. Just bought a Les Paul, I love it and it made me appreciatte my Strat. Gotta love both but there are reasons why one is better than the other in certain situations, everything is subjective. So bravo for putting this out, I get it because I love both, I'm sure you do as well.
I look forward to it. I love the tone of Strats but my short stubby fingers like the feel of the LP. As well as the sustain.
Crazy Kong I love strat tone but I find that my fat fingers are too crowded on a strat. I am always knocking it on the volume and pickup selector and I am always hitting the middle pickup with my hands when I use no pick. One thing les Paul got right was the layout of the controls. Peace
Crazy Kong get a music man next.. or my favorite ESP Eclipse 1.
Exactly....owning both is like having Boardwalk and Park Place in a monopoly game. lol. The deal breaker for me with a strat is the dumb place where they put the volume knob. It's precisely in the way of where I pick and I'm always hitting it.
1: I’ve never had a noisy strat (you can always use a noise gate)
2: love the feel of maple necks (play 9’s)
3: strats have incredible sustain
4: The tone of a strat is second to none
5: Fender strats can be customized in every was possible.
I will say, Gibson explorers don’t look too bad
putting aluminum foil under the pickguard will also help with the noise shielding.
les pauls are way better than strats if your only playing power chords.. but as someone who likes more technical/interesting stuff a strat feels so amazing...
I’m which part of the planet you see a great sustain on a strat?
Only when the vibrato system is blocked or replaced by a hardtail. ;)
Noise gates suck.
Les Pauls almost always have better sustain than Strats, just because of the difference in mass.
And the tone of a Strat is great...if you want something that sounds like a Strat. Strats can only ever sound like a Strat, they are incapable of venturing beyond the tonal boundaries of the "Strat sound". Les Pauls are far more tonally versatile.
I've really tried to like strats several times over the years but I prefer a Gibson.
les paul has balls strat has brains, guitar players need both
So get yourself a PRS, it has both.
Trying out Les Paul for the first time at a guitar center being a strat owner, The Les Paul felt better than a strat
You play squires?
Les pauls are heavier in Weight, shorter scale, single cut, less clear in tone. Anything a les paul can do strats do better. Strats were made as an update to the telecaster. The les paul was made to compete with the tele (which i still think the tele wins) its like saying which is better, nokia phone or modern smartphone. Well nokia dont break hurr durr durr
@@happyninjafighter2 I do play a squier, a telecaster, it just sucks because its my only good guitar and can't afford anything else.
@@guitar_and_weed what?
@@happyninjafighter2 i answered your question.
I just love guitars!! Really Les Pauls are awesome and Strats are awesome. Strats are way easier to keep in tune and generally manage. Les Pauls have a certain sound and I love it.
Maybe we should split the difference and everyone buy a Telecaster!!!!
Agreed!
That's why I have a Tele, a Les Paul and a Strat AND a PRS Soapbar! :D So I'm pretty much complete with solidbodies by just having four of em.
Xavier Roberts bcs of the headstock. d + g string are angled too much. Also the backangle of 17 deg is too much at the lp.
Xavier Roberts The shorter scale goes out of tune more easily, and doesn't take light strings as well.
How about a Rickenbacker?
Which is better: an apple or a pear?
Johan Doornenbal An orange would beat them both!
Have you ever seen a pear phone? I rest my case.
An Apple
Does Apple have replacement seeds or stock?
pear 10/10
only difference is that Fender's quality control exists
Andrew Davis does it? I haven’t noticed?
I'm with Toby. I would argue quality control is better with Fender than it is with Gib... But there are better options. Heratige, gretsch, ric, music man etc make better quality instruments a lot of the time. I hate PRS because it popularized emo and butt rock but even those are often better made...
@Brenton Hobson in what way do fenders not have balls?
That's a funny joke lol
@@sorrenblitz805 In the way that they are light guitars with single coils and a different scale length which leads them to have no balls.
It's a stupid point to argue, dude. Hard Rock is full of Les Pauls. Strats have their place. Hell, they may even be better guitars overall, but arguing that they have the balls of a Les Paul makes you look inexperienced and silly.
for me having a longer scale makes things easier
If you want a fender that wont wallet rape you like gibson that's also a shorter scale then get a jaguar lol.
I prefer the bridge placement on a strat but that’s probably because i learnt and got used to it.
I completely understand why, i find it harder to bend on my strat, but i never overbend like i do on my lp
Stratocaster is a tool for working musician, Les Paul is a working piece of art
I feel that the strat shape feels more comfortable to play i also think it looks better
same
Smiley Bear well then you are wrong
well spoken. i personally like the belly cuts on strats cant seem to get them on a gib lp. i do have a epi lp ultra 2 that has a belly cut and love it wish it had a easy access neck!
For comfort you can't beat the Strat. The LP looks like a jazz guitar yet jazz guitarists tend to shun them. They are body heavy, Strats are lighter and better balanced. More fret access top and bottom for the Strat. Strats are much easier to modify.
Nah opposite
I hope that you're planning on doing another video on why Strats are better than Les Pauls next lol.
Kennis Russell Awesome. I really like this kind of video but I got a little worried when I got the notification and saw the title. I said to myself "Careful Kennis, that's a pretty bold claim there."
That would be a short fuckin video!
BLACKSYNTH ` Headstock breakage, impossible high fret access.
Tell that to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, David Gilmour, etc. The list goes on and on, as more great players play strats than pauls.
actually when you said the scale lenth is longer, it can also mean that you can play downtuning on a strat and strings wouldnt be as wobbly and therefore could still have the actions low on bridge settings. besides that, i guess strat is slightly lighter, easier changeable neck, double cut means you could have your thumb access on the upper frets and less wide neck means you could barre chord more easily, last, the tremolo. thats all ?
I can tell you 6 reasons why the fender is better
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Thatchman you mean they stay in tune !!
Kennis doesn't have that much knowledge........
Well played sir... well played.
Kennis Russell He meant that they stay in tune.
Thatchman ,lol man
Both are totally different instruments! I have both and I love both
This is an ancient comparison, ideally one needs one of each.,
Felix Burke one of each for sure. I spent years and years trying to buy, build, modify guitars so I could get good start and les Paul tones. I finally gave up and realised it's better to get one strat one l.p.
That's why I don't understand putting coil splits on a Les Paul. If you want true single coil tone, then a strat is what you want
I own both ,but the strat is the go to guitar !!!!
Jake Anderson, on my LP coil splits bring P-90 alike sound. Of course there is nothing stratty, but it is nice option and one of classic LP tones. Also I love phase reverse. Gotta learn to play Rattlesnake Shake.
Or you just do what Knopfler did and get a pensa (or suhr for that "affordable" price range)
In the end you gota love and have both or you are seriously missing out. That said here are some advantages of a strar over a les paul:
1: The strings follow a straight line after the nut to the tuning machines, unlike a gibson where they fan out. This makes a strat hold tuning better.
2: the neck and headstock on a strat are not known to break.
3: modular design means all parts are replaceable, if it breaks you don't need to buy a wholr new guitar. also you can mix and match strat parts.
4: pickgaurd can be replaced so you can have any combination of humbuckers or single coils in neck and bridge.
5: tremolo system.
6: price.
7: more pickup combination and tone options.
8: easier access to higher frets.
9: lighter
10: more ergonomic, forearm and belly cuts. slimer.
11: consistent quality, no lemons.
12: easier and faster pickup switching.
13: you can do fast volume adjustment WHILE playing with well placed volume knob.
#1- les Paul costs less! #2- Gibson has never had any quality control issues! #3- the les Paul neck never breaks, whereas all strats are vulnerable to breakage at the headstock! #4- PAF pickups obviously consistently and magically have so much more note definition and clarity that the ever muddy single coils on the strat. #5- the gibsons 3 way toggle gives you way more tone options than the lousy 5 way lever switch of the strat.
Daniel Bell Les Paul costs much, neck breaks a lot, it's heavy as fuck, doesn't stay in tune and Gibson is going downhill for a long time.
Daniel Bell Played them both and both have positive and negatives. Les Pauls have way more tuning problems than the Strat especially that g string. Drives me up the wall. Les Pauls have always cost more and are heavier though sustain and output is better. Sometimes I have made the Pauls my main instrument(especially for slide) but eventually I always return to Teles and Strats. In the end...it's up to each player which is best for them. If I had to choose and only could play one guitar...it would be a Telecaster type guitar.
dave turner the cheapest made in America les paul is a lot less than a mia strat
Daniel Bell Are you joking? Just curious. Because I know many people that will bring up Gibson QC problems.
Mad Minute 100% joking.
The Les Paul is the pretty girl you take home to mother. The Fender Strat is the bar fly you get drunk with and take back to a cheap hotel for some fun.
Ruckus Tom nah, I think I disagree, les Paul's have such a nasty tone, and the strat just has a such a pretty tone, and just look at all the bad boys that played Gibsons, then all the goody two shoes that played fenders
Strat players: Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rory Gallagher, Ritchie Blackmore, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton.
Les Paul players: Peter Green, Jimmy Page and Paul Kossoff and Randy Rhoads, Slash and ? ? sorry don't remember.
Guess to me Strat wins. Sure Gibson sounds good, but to me there's no doubt Strats are the most versatile guitars.
Rafael Pretto yeah I have to agree on that
Gary Moore, Dickey Betts, Eelco Gelling, Jan Akkerman, Neil Young, Mark Knopfler and Eric Clapton?
Ginger Beer
Well yes, Gary Moore used both Strats and Les Pauls.
It doesnt make sense to compare them to say which is better. They are just tools, as colors to chose in an artist's palette.
We can say which we prefer, and that is subjective.
But objectively is like comparing apples to pears.
I found your break down of the two guitars very helpful. Thanks!
I used to endorse Gibson LP and played them on all recordings / videos during my early career in the '90s, however I have come to also love the Fender Strat for it's unique properties. My Strat string preference (as well as David Gilmour's) are GHS Boomers 8.5.
so you don't using the david gilmour signature?
#6: Gibson heads break off if you look at it hard... BUT; an "Expert" at Guitar Center told me that gluing the heads back on makes them sound better. Better than what? Better than they sound with the head separated from the neck? Or, better than they sound before the head broke off?
1- Strat is lighter
2- More comfortable (contoured body)
3- Has a more cutting/trebling sound (I like this)
4- Has a vibrato arm (I like this)
But I like these two models. The best way is to have them both. :)
and a Tele, and a shred stick, and a 335 and a......
Whatever works. I prefer Les Pauls. Thicker tone, more heft, slightly shorter neck...for my single coil tones, I go for a Les Paul Special. I love Strats, especially clean on the neck pickup, but i hate playing them. The feel and way a Les Paul sits in my hands works for me.
Very opinion based thing. I think both are good but my fav musicians are strat dudes. Fruschiante and hendrix all of the way!
@@roadsportuk Ask the Strats purists ;P
I remember looking through the windows of music shops when I was a kid drooling over these guitars. It took me a long time to get them, but I love my Strat and Les Paul. They both do different jobs. For versatility and for sparkling cleans nothing (I mean nothing) comes close to a Strat through a beautiful clean tube amp. Everyone needs a bit of rock and that's when you've got to reach for the Les Paul. The shear bulk in terms of the sound that a Les Paul produces through a cranked valve amp is unmistakable. Humbucker equipped Strats can't replace that. They sound a lot bigger than a single coiled Strat, but they still retain much more brightness than a Les Paul to my ear.
It all really depends on what kind of music you play and what kind of tone you prefer.. I like both for different sounds
Despite the nuances people complain about regarding the Les Paul, the thing is the embodiment of rock and roll. The looks alone...!
Love the video. Although I'm a bass player I just got into guitars. Saving up to buy a Gibson LP traditional 2018.
When using dirty/overdriven tones, a Les Paul has a bossy sound on lower frequencies and a bell-like sound on the higher frequencies. A Strat reminds me of a kazoo in overdrive situations.
They're both clearly iconic guitars but I'm a strat guy and always will be! The strat for me has a more comfortable feel than a Paul.
I had a Strat for a long time. It served its purpose. One day a friend told me to try out his Les Paul. It was like I had never played a real guitar before. A friend of mine bought a Telecaster a few years ago. I brought over my Les Paul and told him to try it out. He said "all the difficulties I was having on my guitar immediately went away when I played yours." I am a tall guy with big hands and fingers, my friend is very short with small hands. This is just my experience, but just sayin....
Nah. Strats are better
1 - the necks don't brake
2 - Strats are lighter
3 - Strats can come with humbuckers or P90's or mini Humbs or...
4 - Strats have more tonal options between their pups
5 - A longer scale is good for downtunings [I have my strat on B]
I know ;)
David a les Paul is heavier, but it also sounds heavier... I personally prefer les Pauls, not saying strats are bad though
David Not to mention the new Noiseless single coils are quiet as mice, so number 1. is void
David I was gonna say all of these points and a few more. the debates as to weather you even need a tone nob haha. also tuning stability. And who gives a damn about humming to alot of people single coils sound so much better. so preach what you say dude
Strats don't have P-90s nor do they come with humbuckers.
guys stop with the dislikes. which guitar you buy is all about personal preference first and foremost. kennis makes some good point on areas where the les paul is better than the strat but he did not say one is unquestionable better than the other.
Dirty tones with Les Paul
Clean tones with Fender Strat
Lead guitar with Les Paul
Rhythm guitar with Fender Strat
Clean tones and dirty tones with a PRS!
:)
Jazz - Les Paul
Metal - Les Paul
Hard Rock - Les Paul
Everything else - Stratocaster
well it depends on music you play pink floyd def strat, guns and roses gibson, however i have heard people play guns and roses on strat and sound really good,
Since I'm from Detroit, this reminds me of the old Ford vs. Chevy HS cafetria food fights.
Both of these guitars were originally built by men and women who were committed to fashioning very high quality instruments.
When the bean counters took over, their only concern was for THE BOTTOM LINE. They closed their factories, laid off all the craftsmen and craftswomen, opened robot factories in Corona and Nashville and began cranking out guitars that were no better than any imports at FIVE TIMES the price.
Incidently, in addition to one of the last Tele's to come out of the Fullerton plant, I have 2 Strats and an LP..
My Epiphone LP 100 was made in China and both Affinity Strats are from the Cort factory in Indonesia. Even with my customising touches, none cost more than $200US and they all play and sound as well as snotty-nosed US products at a fraction of the $$.
Not better, just different. Stack up the most revered tone smiths ever and they almost all play Strats. Clapton, Hendrix, SRV, Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Blackmore, etc., etc.
laj043 It was more about the trem unit on the Strat for most of those guys
.. Knopfler, Malmsteen ..
My old bandmate was crazy about Les Pauls, but he always played his strat more. I always wondered why. It wasn't the tuning issue, because he had to retune his strat during sessions too. It wasn't the weight, he's a big guy, old HS wrestling champion. However, I never thought about the scale difference. The man has giant sausage fingers, I was always amazed at how he could play so well. I never played my Squire Strat much, I kept to my Epi SG. The scale length never entered my mind, probably for that very reason. Bill's frets were further apart, giving his giant fingers more room.
Btw: For fifteen years, my sg was one with P90s. I know everyone calls that glassy strat sound a "single coil" sound, but my P90s didn't sound glassy
. Also: his excuse was because it was easier to play slide, but he hardly ever used his slide.
I own both and strats are far better
Chris Bailey i own both and i perfer LP's ^^
@@yonikup2865i own a les paul and have played some strats and i love my les paul way more, SGs are great too
I own a Beautiful Les Paul Custom and a 2004 50th Anniversary American Stratocaster. I play the Stratocaster and look at the beauty of the Les Paul hanging on the wall. Pick up the Les Paul once every month or so and play it until my neck and back starts to hurt from the weight. Not to say, having to constantly tuning it. Stratocaster feels like a perfect fitting glove and stays in tune no matter what or how I play.
Les pauls looks cooler
Resonance is the vibrations felt in the body. Sustain is how long a note sounds. The LP has the best sustain and the worst resonance. It separates the strings from the body through the stoptail bridge and also the angled headstock puts more pressure on the nut which increases sustain.
Impressive.. but can you do a video on 5 reasons why epiphone is better than Gibson?
Bluppy Eastman He wont because they arent,they are just an affordable version of a proper Gibson les paul
You are in the wrong channel, check davie504 :)
@SpiderBaked correction. fender is the inbred son of epiphone jones and gibson ifuckedyomammage
@SpiderBaked epiphone is not fender
That would be impossible, uh? Yup.
Hi Kennis! I totally agree with you ― and there are many more! I love the background aesthetic too. Cheers!
1 Reason I Don't Care:
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Then why do you watch the video of you don't care?
@@appliancealliance4444 haha best hipster dude
Sustain is how loud a note remains after the attack. There are 4 components to a soundwave's volume over time in sound and music production.
Attack - How long it will take a note to fade in, from silence to peak
Decay - How long it will take a note to fade out on it's own while being held
Sustain - How much volume is lost immediately after the peak
Release - How long after a note is released does it take to fade out and stop reverberating
An example would be a flute having more sustain than a sitar. The flute peaks as soon as it is blown into sufficiently to hold a note, and since the peak it remains the same volume. The sitar has a shorter attack time since it is plucked, but after the peak the volume drops significantly, meaning the sustain is lower.
That is why the strat has less sustain the les paul. With it's bolt on neck and hollow body, the sound is dampened immediately. The les paul having more sustain makes it sound fuller, richer and warmer. The strat as a consequence sounds plucky and thin, whereas the les paul sounds full and smooth.
My reasons
Reason 1. Jimmy page
Reason 2. Listen to the sustain on this one
Reason 3. Humbuckers
Reason 4. Jimmy page
Reason 5. Ebony black
Strats: reason 1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Eric Clapton
SRV RICHIE BLACMOORE HENDRIX CLAPTON GILMOUR
Absolut Dazhy knopfler
1) Jimi Hendrix
2) Eric Clapton
3)Jeff Beck
4) Ritchie Blackmore
5)John Frusciante
6) Rory Gallagher
7)David Gilmour
8)SRV
9) Mark Knopfler
10) Yngwie Malmsteen
11) Hank Marvin
12) Michael Landau
13) Buddy Holly
14) Eric Johnson
15) Nile Rodgers
@@michaelstjohn-ho5is Jimmy Page trumps both, but He also was a Telecaster & cheapo Danlectro player.
there's no choice, I'll buy both
5 ADVANTAGES of the Gibson Les Paul compared to the Fender Stratocaster. This may be a better title.
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A much better title, but click bait was needed.
Bullcrap List ... Here is the Right list. Strats are better
1 - the necks don't brake and are tougher
2 - Strats are lighter
3 - Strats can come with humbuckers or P90's or mini Humbs or...
4 - Strats have more tonal options between their pups
5 - A longer scale is good for downtunings [I have my strat on B]
6 - Whammy Bar
7 - Easier to Modify and Customized
8 - More comfortable to Play
9 - Easier to Replace a part
10 - Strats are far easier to get in tune and stay in tune
11 - Best cleans ever with single coils
12 - Less compression, more dynamics with single coils
Fender is the AR-15 of guitars if you don't like something change it everything can be modified
:-)... Yea right... LP and STRAT is nothing else than two different guitars which gives you
the best of two worlds. You only need these two to cover everything.
I love them both....
The video title should've been.
5 ways Les Paul is different than a Stratocaster. It's not better just different. Strats more tonal options, sound better clean, are beautifully designed. Les Paul's quieter, easier to play, hotter pickups. Just different guitars,not better just different.
Strats are built like a tank:= Alpha male.
Les Paul's are fragile.:=Pretty girl
One thing I don't understand about the Strat is the 2 Tone knobs.
On a Mexican Strat, there is no way to control the Tone of the bridge pickup. On the American Standard, none of the Tone controls work for the middle pickup (position 3). I thought that only my guitar had that issue, but I tested several guitars at the store and the same thing happens. Regardless, I find the 2 Tone controls a bit confusing, or maybe I don't know exactly how they are supposed to work.
One mod I did is replace the 2 Tone control for a Blending Pod, Wich allows me to blend the bridge and neck pickup and get a Tele twang type of sound, + all the standard Strat tones. Pretty cool, but the mod cost around 80$
Tele deluxe has entered the chat
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Tele and strat have friended tele deluxe
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Credit where credit is due: Gibson pioneered the PAF (when is that patent actually ever going to be granted?!) but these days there are some great humbucker Fenders just like there are some great single-coil Gibsons available... not to mention a slew of other brands with either or both. Long story short, play what you like.
backwater j I recently invested in a tele deluxe and put the mule ( bare knuckle humbucker, probs the best one around) and the put the fender humbucker in the bridge great combo but Gibson’s pickups are very good quality
@@thegoldenkniet7802 Been wanting to try out those bare knuckles, but so much else crying out to spend that money on. Ultimately you'll find the pickup you like or you'll make it (personally it's been about 50/50 but I'm a techie/cheapskate ;) ) but most of what drives your sound is your playing style.
backwater j ye I love bare knuckles, I purchased one, the mule and it is probs the best neck pickup around, it sounds amazing
Seth Lover designed both the PAF for Gibson and the wide range humbucker for Fender. The filtertron humbucker by Gretsch was first.
I definitely hear you on the easier to play aspect. . . sometimes the strat feels wicked tight and you cant get stuff out easier and the les paul feels so smooth and easy. . . .David Gilmour used les pauls a lot in the studio and the strat live i feel like the strat is an adrenaline based instrument.
LPs are nice but…
1. My strat has a humbucker in the bridge, and a damn good one too.
2. Stay in tune way better, especially since mine has the staggered posts
3. Five way selector, plus even less noise than a humbucker in position 4 (and 2 on SSS strats)
4. Headstock is unlikely to break, and neck is easily replaceable.
5. Longer scale length works for me; tighter strings are less floppy and more consistent.
6. Best cleans ever with single coils
7. Less compression and more versatility with single coils
8. You can go from HSS to HSH to HH to H to SSS, all just by swapping out a pickguard and soldering a couple wires.
9. Most, if not all strats, do have a tone wired to bridge pickup. Probably the most vital part of a SSS guitar.
10. More notable guitarists used them, including:
Hendrix
SRV
Clapton
John Mayer
Van Halen
Yngwie Malmsteen
Adrian Smith
Beck
Gilmour
Gallagher
Buddy Holly
Knopfler
Frusciante
Townshend
Eric Johnson
But I can see where you're coming from, and Gibson certainly has a great thing going (Huge Lifeson fan). Thanks for making the video my dude
I have owned both, the Strat default tone is generally thinner but more brighter and jangly than an L.P. The LP default tone is a lovely thick creamy slighty mushy sound. You choose .
adrenochrome
You make some good points. But if you do a Strat rebuttal, I would include price point, versatility, and most importantly weight. Les Pauls are boat anchors. Especially if you have an older one.
Better is subjective, Gibson Les Paul is more versatile and easier to play, no that's not my opinion, but scientific fact.
if you can only afford one guitar, get a les paul, strats have there strengths over a les paul but nothing much, overall a les paul will serve you better.
I agree
A longer scale guitar has more harmonics and sounds better to me. In fact the only sector in which les paul is better than strat is the potentiometers and dial in tone and the appearance. In everything else fender rules
did you listen to the vid or just start angrily typing as soon as you saw the title?? He is NOT saying gibsons are better. He is pointing out 5 AREAS in which they are. He also has a vid where he points out where fender triumphs. But he is not saying one is definitely objectively better.
i agree
I’m pretty sure the video is titled”Five REASONS les Paul’s are BETTER than strats. “.
Which Les Paul model does he have?
Les Paul’s look way cooler you have to give Gibson that
100s of Millions of people disagree.
You should compare a Strat to an SG, and a Les Paul to a Tele. I know the Strat is older than the SG, but clearly the Les Paul is meant to compete with the Telecaster. Therefore the SG, the main Gibson double cut, is supposed to compete against the main Fender double cut. With that in mind, the ES series is probably the real Strat competitor historically, but the SG is a solid body, so it fits better.
Both overrated living on their past success! I get they have a following for that
Past and current success. Not to mention the plethora of companies that just make slightly modified copies and think themselves original. (cause gibson and fender pretty much covered it all)
Franky FourFingers sounds like my comment really offended you! I just stated my opinion. I never said they were bad guitars! You're pathetic
Franky FourFingers lmao you trying to insult/bully me over the internet over a comment I left weeks ago, pathetic! Sounds like a personal problem. Have a good one I don't argue over the internet...
Good job not arguing over the internet
I think your comments clearly demonstrate who the 13 year old is. Leave the comments section to adults who don’t resort to petty immature name calling when someone doesn’t share their opinion.
Strats are great, but I get a much better bend on a Paul (less scale length). They are both equally fantastic for slide.
Guitars are like women. They all look , feel and sound different when you’re doing your thing with them.
Completely agree with with all your comments. There is a place for each that’s why I own both.
Humbuckers don't sound as good as Single coils. Clean and for solos or blues.
I love Strats !
but I love Les Paul's a lot more !!!
the playability of the Paul is much better for me.
absolutely the best video in a very long time, you did excellent Sir.
all the best to you and you're family Sir.
but a 25" scale length
tele's deluxe (humbuckers and controls like a Paul, hardtail bridge)
ain't a bad choice either !!!
"More beautiful" Give me a break. That's completely subjective.
He does say it’s completely subjective. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got two strats but they look so cliché to the point where they just look cheap. LPs are way more attractive
LP is the godfather of guitars.”
Strats are far easier to get in tune and stay in tune. Les Pauls are almost impossible to get correctly tuned and intonated due to their inherently flawed design.
I like the modularity and light weight of the Strat, but the Les Paul has more knockdown power with it’s 7.62mm cartridge.
Rubbish
But there is only one reason a Strat is better than an LP - TONE!
RCbeastly what?
GingerTaylor Why.? Which of the five "points' do you disagree with?
all of them , the LP is not better then a Strat ...its just another guitar that looks and sounds different ,its not better at all , a Strat can do everything a LP can do ..but not the other way around . The LP is by far the better made ..but the worst guitar to repair and they are very easy to break , in my opinion the best LP guitars are not made by Gibson at all , Gibson have never in over 60yrs addressed the biggest problems the LP has eg: staying in tune and the headstock breaking off and try getting one re-fretted , Gibson offer many guitars but almost are all the same ...fixed bridge and 2 humbuckers , Strats come in many different ways ...SSS, HSS, HSH , HHH , lipsticks , P90´s , with Piezo , and also midi . the guitar is stronger will stay better in tune ( even with a wammy, something that LP´s dont have ) is much easier to fix , I also say that some of the best Strats are not made by Fender ....to sum this up the LP is a greate guitar but so is the Strat and a Tele and so on , they all have there place in music :)
Its just a guitar, the way you play it is what counts , the person is in charge and not the guitar
I can get a Tele to sound like Brian May if I want , give it the right efects and play it the right way , the sound of any guitar comes from the player and the way you play it ...and not from its shape :)
I personally prefer Les Pauls because the pickups have separate volume and tone knobs. But ESP Eclipses (which are very similar) are better imo because most of them have 24 fret (however, they only have one tone knob).
it is simple - a Les Paul is an instrument, and the Stratocaster is a product. Enough said.
The_Man_from_Epsilon_Crucis how is a strat not a instrument, plus I wish lp's were products so i could buy one
Stratocaster is good, but was always made from the start as a high volume, mass production "product". Fender literally used people off the street to "assemble" his guitars. At the same time, Gibson were still building mainly by hand, by skilled luthiers with years of training. That is why Fender did it - real (Gibson) guitars were too expensive for the average person, so he wanted to make a cheap guitar that anyone could afford. As Fender grew in popularity, they got greedy. Now they charge thousands for their guitars - going against Leo Fender's original idea. Fenders are grossly over priced, and Gibson should also be a lot cheaper now given they are mostly built with CNC machines. In a true world, a basic Fender Strat should be around $500-$600 and a Les Paul around $1200-$1500.
Stratocaster a product? Man! I thought the product was the guitar that easily breaks, that the tuning sucks, and that has only 3 pickup combinations...
This argument might actually hold weight if gibsons quality control wasnt the worst in the entire industry. Saying it currently makes you look like a idiot.
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tension is equal because it's a function of pitch. However you will get more torque = easier to bend on a strat. It depends mostly on your string choice though. I think that reason was pretty irrelevant
Gibson blows fender out of the water. The Les paul was co-designed by Les Paul. an actual guitar player. the fenders stink!. the fretboards are radiused, which means bending just doesn't work out right the headstock is flat which means there's not enough downward pressure from the nut to the tuners which means less sustain and tuning issues. the pickups mount to a plastic pick guard instead of the wood, so you get a twangy sound instead of the rich natural wood tones. Gibson is a quality instrument co-designed by a real guitarist..."Les Paul". fenders are junk. the greats who played fenders had to have them worked over to make them playable. Shoot if you buy a new fender you have to have it setup correctly... that's because fender knows you are going to have to spend money to make it sound and play right, so they don't put in the extra work to setup it correctly... most fender owners immediately swap out the stock pickups. Gibson owners... it's plug and play because you can't beat those paf pickups Gibson makes.
Ray Davis Yeah, Gibson headstocks are sooo well designed, Stay in tune better, No one ever has had to replace the tuners on a gibson for locking tuners in hope to hold stability better, And no one could really like that twangy sound, Of course you would want a guitar that has a lot of bass and middle! And thank god you don't have to spend that much money on a gibson!!
i am definitely a gibson guy and if given the choice i would go with an es335 anyday. With that said, Fenders have value and i love my tele. Why be so chauvanistic?
Different tools for different jobs. It's almost like saying a knife is better than a fork. I've got a few of both and I pick which guitar I'm going to play based on the set list.
I prefer Gibson but I really don’t think Fender makes junk it’s all about PERSONAL preference
Strats stink? I think any Jimi Hendrix song proves you wrong.
The volume knob on strats bother me, being so close to the strings. If you sweep a certain way, you'll hit the volume knob.
Or just get an Ibanez with better tone, playability, and affordability.
The GB10.
Noggest, good point. I agree that there's more to the guitar world than Gibson & Fender. I'm a fan of Schecter Guitar Research. Great quality at a great price. I've had 3 Stilettos: Diamond & Diamond Elite in both 4 & k string models. Only still have the 4 string. They feel more substantial to me & have a fuller, ballsier sound than Ibbys do. I did have a SR 505 that was pretty nice. It was actually TOO clean for my taste, & lacked the great sustain of all the Schecters (ESPECIALLY the 2 Elite models).
Lol, "better tone". Man I remember the times 10 years ago when I thought guitars shredders use was the best, give it a few more years kid and you'll feel silly ever using an Ibanez.
You're probably an old fart who plays nothing but shitty blues scales.
Franky FourFingers seriously man?? metal,jazz,rock,blues,country guitarist all of them are musicians and all of them have a pro and cons if u can play jazz congratulation but just dont disrespect other genre guitarist........(sorry for bad english)
Both are great. The Strat is a bit easier to play sitting down, though.
I agree with all your five points. However, id you hardtail a strat, the sustain subject is less pronounced
I agree the Les Paul is more beautiful, but I really also do love the more humble, sort of workhorse type of look the Strat has.
Speaking of the volume, you can always turn the volume all the way down on the pickup you aren't going to use, and turns the pickup selector into a mute switch. Need to set the guitar down, but don't want to switch off you tube amp? Flip that toggle and avoid the string noise and inevitable feedback.
Heck, in between songs we'd end up talking, even during some shows, and the people who didn't have the two tone two volume set up would forget what they were doing sometimes and we'd get all kinds of noise.
It's the age-old apples to oranges comparison. Strats have that country-SRV type of sound that only a strat makes. A les paul just sounds huge & is unlike anything else. Tone!
Honestly, the biggest difference that I notice is the fretboard radius. It's a lot easier to play higher on the fretboard on a Les Paul than it is on a Strat just because it's a lot flatter.
The main thing for me is that the strat neck sits too high when I’m sitting down. The Les Paul neck is in a more ergonomic position
Coming from playing classical guitar, it was an easy decision. The flat radius alone, as compared to mostly 9.5" on most of the fenders was enough to sway me...chording on a flat neck isn't difficult if you have proper form.
It saddens me that this video is getting so many down votes. Not because I'm a Gibson fan [I'm surely not] but because people don't seem to understand this is the first part of a 2 video set, in which Kennis will share his thoughts on why Strats are better than Les Pauls [the opposite of this one]. The man is just sharing his opinions [even if they are based on the usually perceived]. Calm down people.
Bolt on necks have great sustain when set up well. The metal in the bolts are denser than the wood and send a full vibration through the body and neck. a poorly set up neck will choke sustain.
I agree with point 4, dialing in the tone--at least on the bridge pickup of standard strats. On the other hand, position 2 makes up for it in many ways, and the the bridge and middle pickups work together essentially like a humbucker.
The smell of the Gibson is amazing and unique! Maybe that fact could be the decider :)
I love your humility and non judgemental openness. It's power.
The tension part is not true. A longer string requires more tension yes, but the fact it is longer alors makes it more flexible and easier to bend. So it actually compensates for the extra tension.
I have both bc I love them for their separate polar opposite personalities it's like comparing a Phillip's head to a flat head screwdriver.. 2 completely different tools for 2 different. purposes. Both useful. I Thank god for both!