Gibson Guitars: How to Get the Best Electric Guitar Tone for Blues Music

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Summary: Learn why it's hard to get great blues guitar tone using a Gibson. Get tips on what electric guitars to play in this free guitar gear & equipment video.

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Bill Macpherson Bill Macpherson has been playing guitar professionally for more than 20 years. In addition to his guitar playing, he runs a recording studio and is a sought-a... read more

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by qwert5

BB King, Billy Gibbons, Freddy King, Albert King, T-Bone Walker, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter. ALL played Gibsons or hum-bucking/solid-bo dy guitars. Humbuckers drive most tube amps very well and to add chime just back off on the bass and presence controls. Your explanation is lacking. You must be referring to SRV "Texas Blues" or something...

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by rock_temple_pilot

Humbuckers are fatter as to be expected but you should be able to dial it in just right.

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Gibson Guitars: How to Get the Best Electric Guitar Tone for Blues Music

Hello this is Bill Macpherson for Expert Village now I like to talk about the Gibson guitars and why blue's players don't use them. They like to drive an amplifier a little bit higher and blue's players they use more of a clean sound and that's why they don't use these guitars. And I'll show you what I mean, I have the drive fairly low it's about 2 or 3, it already has a little grip to it, with a fender it would of been completely clean at that point. And when I turn it up to about 7 which is really sweet on the fender it almost turns into a hard rock sound, not that's its bad or anything some people may like it. And you are also won't be able to use more of the distortion box with it because it will be to hot sounded, but you can still get a really good blue sound from this guitar.