tom n Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Good point, I will compare it to my 72 Deluxe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAC Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I don't know if this helps but, when I first heard of these was around the time the band Chicago came out with Chicago IV. I beleive Terry Kath had a Les Paul Deluxe. That record came out in 1973. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAC Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I just read in the Tony Bacon "The Les Paul Guitar Book" they came out in 1969. The book only goes up to 2009. It does not mention anything about a Deluxe Pro. I need to get a newer book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 ......in the Tony Bacon "The Les Paul Guitar Book"......It does not mention anything about a Deluxe Pro... Try looking under Pro Deluxe, JAC. In my copy of the same book there is one pictured on page 70 with a brief description on p. 72 and a more detailed listing on page 153. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Cook Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 According to "The Gibson Les Paul Book: A complete history of Les Paul guitars" by Tony Bacon and Paul Day, the Pro Deluxe was made between 1976 and 1982. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 According to "The Gibson Les Paul Book: A complete history of Les Paul guitars" by Tony Bacon and Paul Day, the Pro Deluxe was made between 1976 and 1982. In Tony Bacon's "The ultimate guitar book", the author writes 1977 as start of production. I don't want to start a debate, just pointing out to the fact, that even the author Himself is unsure. Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Yes. As was said pretty much right at the start of the thread the Pro De-Luxe was first released in April 1977 in Europe and slightly later in the USA. As a stock of the instruments would have had to have been built up it's likely that production started in late '76 for a release date the following Spring. These instruments would, therefore, have been allocated 1976 serial numbers although the model was not yet available to the public. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Yeah - I have tried a few different heads and combos..... I can always get an overdrive I like and if I bump it up a bit more with a pedal (I mostly use my Keeley RAT and a re-issue MXR dynacomp in combination) I can get a great lead tone that rivals anything I have with humbuckers. For cleans, I thought the Bassman would be tone heaven.... but not to my ears. It's not a thin sound... if anything, there is too much bulge in the mids - it actually sounds like it i lacking some of the sparkle or chime that you might expect..... Of course, it may be that my ears are just knackered after too many years playing loud! I can't moan too much - I have some guitars with really great clean sounds..... This is one problem with p90s, no height adjustment. It sounds like they need to drop. Try raising the bridge crazy high, so as to put the strings a couple of mm higher above the pups than they are now. This will make it all but unplayable of course but it's just to check the tone. If it improves, and I think it will, you could consider sanding a little off the bottom of the covers, on those pups, or on a new set if you don't want to vandalise the originals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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