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Everything you'd want.
All I can say is that you no longer need to spend 10,000 more on a Les Paul Standard, nor do you need to spend hundreds more on an HP. This has everything you'd need in a guitar. The humbuckers work great for metal, blues, country, or any other genre you can think off. The volume knobs have coil taps for each pickups and tone control for each, in addition to the beautiful colors available. The main problem here is the tuners, as they are of a pretty terrible quality. They are fine if you stay in one tuning, and even then they go out of tune on a regular basis. However, if you switch tunings a lot the strings can break, even if your careful, and the tunings will always be out of tune as they can't stay in tune if frequently used. This is the one thing you maybe should check out the high performance for.
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the tuners are fine, its the nut that's your problem... make sure the string slots are deburred and smooth using some fine grit, wet sandpaper, then clean it good and get some graphite string lubricant.... the break angle on the strings of a Gibson 3x3 headstock promotes the strings binding at the nut so you need to make the nut as smooth and slippery as possible to counteract that
if you do all this stuffand your strings are still catching listen carefully for 'pinging' when tuning your G and B strings... if you har pinging then its still the nut and you need more lubricant, if you don't hear pinging but you are getting string slippage then you need to address the way you are wrapping your strings on and how you apply tension when tuning up to pitch the 1st time... the stock Kluson-style tuners really are much better than people will have you believe and going to grover rotomatics (or simillar sealed designs) doesn't do a lot for stability, it just improves turning precision... if you go with locking tuners you will probably get less slippage, but more breakage when the strings bind at the nut because the locking tuners will not give when the string is caught.
Gibsons are tough but they can be tamed if you know what you're about.
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What a great mate
This will travel anywhere due to it's size and sound. Say for example your playing at a club with a Squire Stratocaster that cost about $50. It is quite a common assumption to think: "this guy is going to sound like shit. I mean, a squire and a practice amp? That's your main arsenal? Good luck dude.". Then you melt their faces off with the over-exceptional tones of distortion. You don't play metal? In that case, you bend those jazzy strings in such a brilliant fashion with the amazing clean/crunch channel that your guitar's tuning is completely out of whack. My only complaint is that when you turn up the clean channel it goes from clean to crunch, and gradually get's crunchier and more distorted from there. There should be a feature (such as a button that you can press) enabling you to switch between both, one can be simply just audible cleanness. You can, however, switch between watts if you feel to do so, to save power or to crank it up to ten without your ears bleeding. They still will though. This thing is LOUD.