Which one did you prefer?

Which of the three did you prefer?

  • The double cut special

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • The classic

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • The SG

    Votes: 8 61.5%

  • No preference

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Total voters
    13
To my ears...and from the clean tones

Double cut has a more bassyer tone
Les Paul more mids
The SG leans in on the highs

Translates into the dirty tones..

Double cut has a fuller tone
Les Paul has the bite
The SG has that natural raised voice

Never played a double cut. Have owned a Les Paul and SG.

Went with the SG!!
For playability and tone! :dood:

All though if one owned all three, one could cover a hec of a lot of ground.. ;)
 
^ yes, all three is the correct answer...

I had similar thoughts to you although I also thought the SG had lovely upper mids that sang sweetly and seemed to give the guitar just more tone, more breadth. I wasn't expecting to like that SG best, but I did, and I was a bit underwhelmed by the LP Classic - funnily enough, when I bought the junior I tried out a LP classic gold top that I was seriously gassing for after seeing internet pictures and videos, but in person, in my hand, I didn't like the looks, feel, playability or sounds (I thought it was just a dud).
 
The DC Special sounded a bit compressed and at times nasally.
The Classic has the open, biting top end and a more dynamic sound.
The SG has chime and massive midrange presence.

Clean and dirty I thought the medal goes to the SG. The Classic may be more versatile in some ways but the punch of the sound with dirt weighs in the favor of the SG. Plus it's cooler-looking and a whole lot lighter and more comfortable to strap on. The DC isn't doing much for me in sound or looks.

I cut my teeth on Les Pauls, but I've really been seduced by the sound and feel of SG's the last few years. I generally find myself preferring them overall now and no change here.
 
gball said:
The DC Special sounded a bit compressed and at times nasally.
The Classic has the open, biting top end and a more dynamic sound.
The SG has chime and massive midrange presence.
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That's also pretty close to what I heard. The DC might be superb by itself and have real grunt too, but sounded a bit one dimensional at times. The Classic, I don't know, but it just seemed a bit souless and plain. I expected more from both of them. I suppose we really need to do the back to back ourselves to be sure because we can doubtless find lots of sounds we like on all three by using the tone and volume controls. I know that it's fair in a group 'test' to leave them all on the same guitar and amp settings, but different guitars work/react in different ways, so I kinda like the test where each guitar and amp are differently dialed in to get the best sound.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
That's also pretty close to what I heard. The DC might be superb by itself and have real grunt too, but sounded a bit one dimensional at times. The Classic, I don't know, but it just seemed a bit souless and plain. I expected more from both of them. I suppose we really need to do the back to back ourselves to be sure because we can doubtless find lots of sounds we like on all three by using the tone and volume controls. I know that it's fair in a group 'test' to leave them all on the same guitar and amp settings, but different guitars work/react in different ways, so I kinda like the test where each guitar and amp are differently dialed in to get the best sound.
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My first love is Les Pauls: I literally learned how to play guitar on a '77 Les Paul Custom. They've always felt like "home" to me, and I've always used the tone of them as a benchmark for everything else, but they are really kind of "hi-fi" sounding, with big, bold low end (sometimes too much low end with some amps) and bright, tight high end. But a good one is very balanced from the low end to the high end.

What I have been liking a lot about SG's of late is that the tone is unbalanced - there's a softer low end, the highs are rolled off a bid compared to a LP and there is a big midrange punch that's almost vocal with the tones rolled back. I've also started preferring the form-factor of SG's, they not only look cooler than LP's but they are thin and light which my aging back is happy about, and generally the necks are thinner.
 
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I am -- a les paul "guy" when it comes to guitars -- I am really a drummer hiding as a bass player under the guise of musician
I have the "Les" Les Paul -- in the Les Paul Recording guitar -- but --- the SG taunts and torcheres me .........and in this "face off"
the SG WINS IMHO
 
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