Best Guitar

Best guitar I've ever owned. I've gone through plenty of guitars-Gibson SG's, Les Paul's, Fender Strat's and Tele's, Ibanez - I still always come back to my Gibson SG standard

its awesome i had that from my uncle

my uncle used to own this and he gave it to me to sing, so it went very great

First love you never get over it

I'm a proud and happy owner of a cherry red SG standard since 2003. First of all let's just say I am not the kind of musician that keeps his gear like rare precious jewels, always cleaning every tiny spot and almost scared of taking it out of home... This guitar has been played a lot live, I've been sweating and sometimes literally bleeding on it, it has more than a few scratches and tiny dips on it, and I made different tuning experiments with it. Despite all of this, when few months ago I brought it to the luthier for a checkup (just the second time in 15 years...) he basically told me he had nothing to do. Neck, bridge, board, frets, pickups and electronics... everything was almost in perfect shape. I guess when you buy a Gibson or any guitar worth more than 1000€ this should be normal, but still I think I’ve been lucky. So frequently I hear people complaining about small or big different problems with their expensive guitars. I have two friends that bought exactly the same model in the same period, and their guitars sound really different but most of all they go out of tune easily... Sometimes i take my SG out of the case after a week and it doesn’t even need to be tuned. I play for an hour or two and after that I usually need to tune the G and B string… that’s all. So again, I guess I've been lucky. To be honest, looking back at the period I bought it I think I wasn’t really conscious of the tone I was looking for, so if I could go back maybe I would buy a different guitar, probably a fender because getting a tele I recently discovered I am more a coil guy than a humbucker guy… At the same time I am conscious that for me, after trying out many other guitars, the SG is still the most comfortable guitar out there!

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Best SG I've ever played.

I fell in love with this SG from the first note and had to own it. It has a big chunky neck and the body really resonates when its set-up with a rod straight neck and the action on the high side. The stock 490r neck pickup is warm and sparkly, however I was underwhelmed by the 498t at the bridge. It didn't jive with my favored amplifier, the Vox AC30. At a guitar show I swapped a pedal for an ld Gibson T-top Humbucker with pretty low DCR and installed it at the bridge. It completed the package making my SG into my favorite rock axe.

I have named this guitar El Superbeasto, but she will answer Beasto for short.

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The new Gibson SG Standard T

Obviously if you are a guitarist in any shape or form, you are probably aware of the Gibson brand of guitars. Along with Fender, Gibson makes up the big two in the world of guitars and even if you're not aware of it, it's possible that your favorite guitar brand is owned by them both as they make up a large portion of the market. Well through the years Gibson has been quite the polarizing figure in the world of guitars mainly because of their pricing as well as the sometimes shoddy quality control. That all seemed to come to a head in 2015 with Gibson making a lot of changes to their guitars that players didn't exactly want, that caused quite a price increase for the guitar line. Well, the company has seemingly heard the cries of the public, as in 2016 they are keeping their changes in a line called HP (High Performance) and they are keeping things just the way most of us wanted them to in their T (Traditional) line. With this being said I was personally happy to see this as I've always been partial to the Gibson designed guitars. Then one day I was in a local guitar shop and to my supersede they had the 2016 line in stock and ready to rock! So I tried out a few, such as the new Les Paul Traditionals (played great), the SG Faded T (also really liked the way it played) and the new SG Standard T (fell in LOVE on the spot). So in a frenzy I knew I just had to have one. It took me about a week or so to get the money together, went back and bought the Gibson SG Standard T and took it home. I cannot tell you not only how surprised I was by the guitar the first time I played it, but how much I still love it after having it for almost a month. This guitar plays FANTASTIC!!!!!

First and foremost this guitar comes with period correct knobs, it's has a solid mahogany body, which was hand sprayed in gloss nitrocellulose providing a great looking finish. The mahogany neck is bound with dot markers as well. This neck features the standard classic width that the company reverted away from in 2015 and features a Graph-Tech self lubricating nut. It has trapezoid inlays and is thicker than 2015 as well. The SG Standard T features the 490R pickup in the neck and the 498T pickup in the bridge, with chrome hardware with a tune-o-matic bridge with a stopbar tailpiece, as well as the traditional tuners without the automatic tuner that Gibson got so much flack for last year. The SG Standard T also comes with a deluxe padded gig bag. I'm not the biggest fan of gig bags, but this is probably the nicest ones I've ever seen.

Overall, if you've been apprehensive of Gibson for some of their mistakes in 2015, make no mistake, they've really gotten it all together for their 2016 T line. These are fantastic guitars! Gibson is back!

If it was a girl, it will never break my heart.

This thing is my baby, makes me sound better than I actually am. Favourite feature is that you can choose to use double or single coil for both of the pickups. This gives me freedom in the sounds I choose. The shape of the guitar gives a classic look, as well as reachability on all frets. The tuning pegs are definitely the best I've used so far, they're pretty smooth and it holds the tune for a long time. Overall, it's a sexy guitar that is super versatile and does exactly what you want it to do.

Best playing guitar I own

My Gibson SG standard is the 120th-anniversary edition, which is why I have both this one and the 120th-anniversary one saved. My 120th anniversary was with the regular standard pickguard rather than full size one.

Now to my review This guitar has my favourite neck feel to date. I love the thinner neck to my strats and teles and even like it a little more than my les paul's neck. I am able to have the lowest action on this SG without buzz compared to the others and it is the one I play most solos or fills with. Playing this thing clean through a Fender tube is just amazing.

Great guitar, not too heavy in weight. Nice to see and hear.

Great guitar. Light in weight. Good sound. Looks good. You also don't pay too much for this beautiful guitar. Suitable for many types of music from AC / DC to Frank Zappa. Too bad I haven't bought this guitar before. At Gibson, guitars sometimes come from the factory, which are not properly controlled. There was no fault with this guitar. Keep it up Gibson!

Gibson SG Standard

2013 was the year Gibson finally got it right? Overall it's a really nice guitar to play and sounds good especially with the 57 classic PUPS however the balance of the guitar is not the best.

Compared to the 92 SG Standard I had this guitar doesn't come close to being as good. Action is great, the neck is fast and it's a really fun guitar to play. It's a light guitar which makes it comfortable however I find myself constantly adjusting how it sits while playing, minor detail but annoying. Everything else about the guitar I like.

My Number 1!

It's by no means the perfect guitar, but it is my #1, the first choice in the bands that I write music for. Plays beautifully and was a natural fit for me the first time I picked it up. Not as warm as most LP's I've played, a little more on the aggressive side, just the way I like it. Mine is a 2012 limited edition in Honeyburst. Originally equipped with Burstbuckers, the bridge pickup has been replaced with a Wolfetone Marshallhead. Currently strung up with Dean Markley 13's, tuned to D standard, pots and caps replaced with CTS and Orange Drops respectively, and rewired to a 50's wiring scheme.