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PG's Charles Saufley is On Location in Frankfurt, Germany, for the 2012 Musikmesse Show where he visits the Gibson booth. In this segment, we get to see and hear demos of the Les Paul Standard and Les Paul Studio.

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Pappy from Indy on 06/14/2012	Push pull...flame enhancement...just trying to catch up to Paul Reed Smith.
Gary on 06/06/2012	Does this just happen to me! I just bought a Gibson Les Paul standard pro 5 months ago and then they come out with a new model where you can split the coils.
OldGitarist on 05/25/2012	I wish Gibson still didn't put those nasty, heavy, over engineered 'Nashville' bridges on the cheaper models - I've just drilled out a Gibson ABR bridge to fit my non-custom shop LP standard, and it looks and sounds so much better...
Donsch on 04/30/2012	You get to here this great guitar with a load of distortion on the amp. What about hearing the guitar without distortion?
Tguy2 on 04/26/2012	What, A LP that stays oh tune.
DTodd on 04/26/2012	Of course you can tap a humbucker, you just have to wind one of the coils with an intermediate tap. That's why it's "hum-reducing" because, when tapped, only part of the tapped coil is canceling the full coil. I think this wiring strategy is the coolest thing Gibson has come up with in a long time and, along with the compound radius board and asymmetrical neck, makes me want a new LP Std.
Jon Fine on 04/26/2012	Very cool! Somebody at Gibson is really on the ball--I really like the new wiring with the push-pull pots. I used to have a Les Paul Heritage 80 Elite that I had wired up with coil splitters--sounded great but it weighed about ten pounds--ouch! I got rid of it about eleven years ago--my back couldn't take it anymore! I may just have to get one of these new Standards, though. Henry J.--I totally forgive you guys for the Firebird X, as long as you keep bringing out cool stuff like this!
Jon on 04/22/2012	It's coil splitting not coil tapping, you can't coil tap a humbucker because it's not possible. It's got cool tones though I like that Gibson actually experimented a little bit like they did in the Norlin years (the best years for Gibson guitars)
stan on 04/15/2012	yea the problem now is i want a studio in the blue with white trim, however in gibsons stupidity they now only offer the blue studio with all black trim!! which i dont' want now :<(
Matt R on 04/08/2012	And they now retail for $5000 each!!!

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