Gibson Les Paul Modern Lite Electric Guitar - TV Wheat Satin Reviews
The Les Paul Modern Lite by Gibson will impress with iconic Les Paul character carefully enhanced for improved comfort and modern demands! All this is accomplished while preserving the quintessential Les Paul sound with materials including a mahogany body, a mahogany neck, and humbucking pickups. The Les Paul Modern Lite’s mahogany body features thinner dimensions that make it more nimble onstage and easier to play for extended periods of time. A fresh satin finish shows off lots of mahogany woodgrain, which adds to the Modern Lite’s workhorse feel and stylish looks. Guitarists at Sweetwater are especially impressed with the Les Paul Modern Lite’s tasteful 498T and 490R humbucking pickups. Sonically faithful to prized vintage Les Paul humbuckers but subtly enhanced for hot-rodded output, these humbuckers offer more midrange response and better resistance to microphonic feedback. Crack open the next chapter of a Gibson legend with the Les Paul Modern Lite from Sweetwater!
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Highest Rated Reviews
A real Les Paul, new, modern,and exciting.
Such a great guitar, light, resonant, easy to play. The neck is thinner but not anything too crazy, fills out the hand nicely, satin finish on the back of the neck is a nice touch. Loving the look of the matching headstock, just classy looking. The pickups do everything from clean to dirty with ease. Bends are crazy easy. I absolutely love this guitar, my last Gibson was a Les Paul Studio, which I sold, it was incredibly heavy and just not comfortable. This guitar is the polar opposite I highly recommend.
If this is what you think you want, then it will be exactly what you want
I was in the market for a new guitar and was looking something that sounded like a classic heavy guitar but wasn't 10+ lbs. I almost pulled the trigger on an Epi SG and then paid a bit to upgrade it, but at the same price point this just came out. I am not regretting my purchase at all. This thing sounds insanely heavy. The clean sounds great too. There is a reason why the 490R/498T pickups are paired together so much.
should be an Epiphone
another skimp on a classic name to make an in house modified copy of a true legend that should cost $ but that Gibson Les Paul title commands a Bentley price. When the $ copies come out I'll take a closer look.
Just Ok…. Barely.
I've made some mods for this to suit me better, but it's much too bare for the price. They've made a lite guitar, but they also made it cheap. When I say bare, I'm not bashing the look, just that the components were massively cheaped out on. When Mark Agnesi jumped on board a few years ago, it seemed like they were headed in the right direction. But to me, this guitar feels like crap and I truly feel like my money spent is only making sure the top guys get their bonus check. Absolutely no value to the customer whatsoever. I hate saying this, but it's true.
My true feelings about the Gibson Modern Lite
I have to be honest the GML looks, plays and feels like a guitar that is stripped down and one third the value of the price point. I was very obtimistic that Gibson with a new CEO would get back to the company that was vnerated for quality and playability. My hope is that big retailer like Sweetwater and consumers would communicate to Gibson that this is not a step back into the glory of a great instructment manufacturer.
