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Originally Posted by Lance
Everything sounds great through a DR.
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Originally Posted by Paul G.
If your Les Paul doesn't sound good through a clean, bright amp (like a DR), then it's your fault.
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I've been playing guitar for 23 of my 35 years. I've had a chance to play through just about every common amp that you can name. I've owned several variations of Deluxe Reverbs (including a stock BF, a stock SF and a modern RI).
Plus, I've played through [probably] several dozen Deluxes that were "house backline" at various gigs over the years.... many of which had been modified in various ways (including speaker changes).
I've hated them all. Never had one good experience with any of them,
at stage/gig volume.
Most of them sound fine at clean settings, at low volumes. But you can get a lot of amps that do that. Every one that I've ever cranked up to gigging levels has a horrible sounding bottom end. And I own Les Pauls, 335s, Strats and Teles, and more boosting/OD pedals that I can even remember.
I'm not disputing that other people get great tone out of them. I've heard it. I've even had the opportunity to pickup someone's guitar and play through their Deluxe set up....which had sounded great, just prior to me playing through it.
I used to try plugging my BF Deluxe into an old Marshall 4x12 cabinet which sounded absolutely heavenly with my BF Bassman. But it always sounded farty.
I conclude that it has to do with my technique of pick attack with my left hand. I used large strings, a huge thick pick, and hit the strings very hard, even with delicate musical passages. It's just a very powerful technique (literally) that I've inadvertantly developed over the years.
Now-a-days, I steer clear of all Deluxes. Period.