Gibson: LPX

This is new by Gibson- the LPX. Note there's no mention of 'Les Paul' in the model reference, just the abbreviation 'LPX'. There's no 'Les Paul' over at the headstock as well. Hmm...

Anyway, you'd recall they have similar intentions with the release of the Firebird X, this LPX just brings things a little higher up in terms of digital incorporation. Are you ready for a digital LP experience? One which allows a rather extensive emulation of external tones as well as memory incorporation; this guitar is virtually a memory bank of sorts, you can actually save some user presets in there. 

It's rather ironic that there are technologies out there, of this nature, trying to emulate the Les Paul tone & here we have an LP trying to be something else. I shouldn't comment excessively on this because I might be deemed as a Gibson basher despite the fact that I have some Gibsons here & continue to respect the craftsmanship. 

I bought a Les Paul. In fact, bought a few Les Pauls because I wish to own one of the most iconic guitar tones in history. I wouldn't want a Les Paul which claims to be more than what it's supposed to be. With all due respect, if Gibson started this from scratch, if they wish to purely focus on the technology by letting a fresh range of models do the commercial bidding, something totally new, not a model to leverage on from the current range of guitars- they wouldn't take off.