{"id":162,"date":"2011-05-20T09:04:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutguitars.wordpress.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-05-20T09:04:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:04:32","slug":"the-les-paul-axcess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"The Les Paul Axcess"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Not content with adding a Bigsby to a LP standard, Gibson\u00a0announce\u00a0the Les Paul Axcess which is marketed as the Alex Lifeson (of Rush) model.<\/p>\n

This hybrid has two high-output humbucking pickups with series\/parallel wiring options via its push-pull volume controls, and a Floyd Rose\u00ae licensed unit that is not only vibrato system but also loaded with GraphTech\u2122 Ghost\u00ae piezo bridge saddles.<\/p>\n

Combining the series\/parallel options with the Ghost’s\u00ae realistic acoustic tones for a blend of acoustic and magnetic voices<\/p>\n

You can route it all through a traditional mono jack (labeled \u201cRegular\u201d) using a single guitar cable, or use two cables to split your acoustic sounds into a separate output path using the \u201cRegular\u201d and the \u201cLife-O-Sound\u201d output jacks together.<\/p>\n

While the Floyd Rose\u00ae\u00a0\u00a0looks a little better than the Bigsby VS I have not been a huge fan of them in the past. \u00a0Perhaps Gibson have made some improvements to this\u00a0\u00a0“licensed” version and at an advertised price of around\u00a0\u00a32,699 one would hope so. \u00a0The electronics are interesting but it is doubtful that they are much different to\u00a0those\u00a0found on other guitars with split coils. \u00a0The addition of the\u00a0GraphTech\u2122 Ghost\u00ae piezo seems to be at odds with the high output humbuckers. \u00a0Anyway I would like to try one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not content with adding a Bigsby to a LP standard, Gibson\u00a0announce\u00a0the Les Paul Axcess which is marketed as the Alex Lifeson (of Rush) model. This hybrid has two high-output humbucking pickups with series\/parallel wiring options via its push-pull volume controls, and a Floyd Rose\u00ae licensed unit that is not only vibrato system but also loaded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p536vY-2C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}