Comparative test of a Gibson Les Paul Special from 2023 and a Tokai LSS118 (Made In Japan) from 2011, upgraded with Lollar pickups.
This is not a sponsored video and I bought these two guitars several months ago.
So which one do you prefer?
00:04 Gibson Clean Neck Pickup Riff
00:28 Tokai Clean Neck Pickup Riff
00:52 Gibson Clean Neck Pickup Funky Riff
01:27 Tokai Clean Neck Pickup Funky Riff
01:48 Gibson Clean Middle Position Riff
02:14 Tokai Clean Middle Position Riff
02:38 Gibson Clean Middle Position Funky Riff
02:58 Tokai Clean Middle Position Funky Riff
03:21 Gibson Clean Bridge Pickup Riff
03:44 Tokai Clean Bridge Pickup Riff
04:01 Gibson Clean Bridge Pickup Funky Riff
04:20 Tokai Clean Bridge Pickup Funky Riff
04:30 Gibson Heavy Overdrived
05:11 Tokai Heavy Overdrived
05:55 Gibson Heavy Overdrived 2
06:26 Tokai Heavy Overdrived 2
For this video I put the same new strings (Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10/46) on both guitars.
Both are plugged into the same interface, with the same audio plugins, the same settings and played with the same plectrum (Tortex 1.14).
DAW: Logic
Plugin: Archetype Cory Wong (clean tone) and Fortin Cali Suite, both by Neural DSP
Interface: Komplete Audio 1
Camera: Iphone 13
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