Guitar Shootout: Gibson, Fender, and Rickenbacker

This is a guitar shootout between 7 different guitars that I own. Although no shootout is perfect, this will hopefully demonstrate the tonal differences between guitars when EQ and amp settings remain constant.

In an ideal world, you would adjust an amp to balance the sound of the guitar. If you find some guitars to be too dark sounding or too bright, keep in mind that I had to pick settings that were a middleground between the instruments. That ALL sound very good with a little bit of knob tweaking to balance their sound well.

All clips recorded with the guitar on the bridge pickup.
Overdrive tones from 0:25 to 3:14
Clean tones from 3:15 to 7:24

Guitars are as follows:
-1995 Gibson Les Paul Studio - 490R & 498T
-1992 Gibson Les Paul Standard - 490R & 498T
-2000 Gibson SG '61 Reissue - '57 classic & '57 classic
-1999 Fender American Standard Telecaster - Stock pickups
-1990 Rickenbacker 620/6 - Stock high gain single coils
-1999 Rickenbacker 360/6 - high gain & toaster

Signal path:
Guitar, Monster rock cable, Boss TU-3, Line 6 PODxt, USB out to Macbook Pro.

Audio was recorded direct into iMovie through the PODxt. Video recorded direct into iMove using the computer's built in iSight camera.