Gibson ES-125 vs Gibson Les Paul 12 String

The Gibson ES-125 and the Gibson Les Paul 12 String are both electric guitars sharing transparent. The Gibson ES-125 leans warm and tight. The Gibson Les Paul 12 String leans full and sustaining. Current prices: $1450 vs $5250.

Similarity
citedBlended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.

49% — somewhat different

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Blues Rock
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • transparent

Gibson ES-125

Unknown brand · electric guitar

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Price

$1450via Reverb

$5250via Reverb

Description

The Gibson ES-125 is a semi-hollow body electric guitar delivering warm, articulate tone with natural feedback control. Its single-cutaway design and P90 pickups provide jazz and rhythm tone. The ES-125 appeals to jazz and blues players.

Warren Haynes plays a Gibson Les Paul 12-string, one of only two the company built for him around 1990 after Gibson Custom Shop head Rick Gembar saw him perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and offered to build the instrument. Gibson has since kept a Les Paul 12-string in its catalog partly because of Haynes's association with the model, an unusual pairing since 12-string necks are far more commonly found on acoustic and semi-hollow bodies than on a solid Les Paul. Eric Clapton reportedly saw Haynes play it and remarked he hadn't seen a guitar like it since recording Layla, tying the instrument to the tradition of doubled-string electric guitar work Clapton, Duane Allman, and other blues-rock players from that era helped popularize.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Jazz
  • Metal
  • Blues
  • Rock
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Tonal lean
  • warm
  • tight
  • dynamic
  • full
  • sustaining
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