golfnut
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I was wondering how much of an advantage an R8\9 or even the holy grail murphy lab les pauls have over the regular US standards when it comes to tone alone. If you strip away all the other advantages like body woods. The custom shops, from what I understand are chosen for lightness. So their advantage over the standards is weight. As for affecting tone its subjective so its possible the wood in a standard could technically sound better to someone.
Then theres all the historical accuracy that you're paying for in a custom shop that has nothing to do with tone.
Then theres the pickups. Thats where the advantage in tone would primarily lie. Even that is subjective. Is it possible for someone to think that the standard pickups sound better than a particular custom shop guitar? For this conversation I'll just assume the custom shop\historic pickups sound better.
So if you strip away all that stuff that doesn't necessarily mean tone improvement, how much ground do you gain in a better sounding guitar? Or is it just understood that the sum of all the custom shop parts makes a better sounding guitar than the sum of all the US standard parts and by how much?
Then theres all the historical accuracy that you're paying for in a custom shop that has nothing to do with tone.
Then theres the pickups. Thats where the advantage in tone would primarily lie. Even that is subjective. Is it possible for someone to think that the standard pickups sound better than a particular custom shop guitar? For this conversation I'll just assume the custom shop\historic pickups sound better.
So if you strip away all that stuff that doesn't necessarily mean tone improvement, how much ground do you gain in a better sounding guitar? Or is it just understood that the sum of all the custom shop parts makes a better sounding guitar than the sum of all the US standard parts and by how much?