These Burstdrivers are beautiful visually, but this onboard Overdrive is solving a problem nobody had or needed solved. That's what amps and stomp boxes are for. These should have just been marketed as the new Les Paul Traditionals and wired the traditional way with no pcb's or gadgets.
Ah well, what can ya do. At least this is just one model and not the whole lineup like they did in 2015 with the robot tuners and drunken sharpie scribble logo.
On the flip-side of this though, must be tough as a guitar manufacturer these days because if you make traditional guitars, people complain that they keep making the same boring old guitars year in year out. So you try new ideas and people complain that you changed the guitars too much and took away from the traditional thing.
People are never happy no matter the product line, and Gibson keeps striking out with their new ideas...
Meh. I'll go play my Gibsons and be happy with those, as they are wired and loaded with exactly what I wanted - closest I can get them to custom shop without buying into the club.
Best values with Gibson Les Pauls in my opinion (for the bound tops and fretboards) are Traditionals and Classics. Anything above that is marketing (ahem, Standards) or Custom Shop. In the case of Burstdrivers, both.
Anybody remember Fender's Strats with interchangeable Personality Cards?
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