Can you hear the difference between a Fender Telecaster and a Gibson Les Paul if both guitars have the exact same Pickups, setup, strings and wiring?

A fun little experiment in the great debate over where the tone comes from.

I think there was a clear difference in at least the bridge pickup sounds between the two.

Having multiple guitars, I’ll still go by what Jim Lill and SMG say: it’s mostly up to the speakers. I have a knockoff tele, Epi Wildkat and some others. They sound exactly the same with my setup using an fx chain in reaper going out to my shit Line6 amp. Personally I don’t care as much about sound as I do does it make me want to play?.

does it make me want to play?

Amen to that!

I loved the Jim Lil series, and it was nice to hear Ryan give a nod to it in this video. I'm not familiar with SMG, are you referring to smg-guitars.com?

No SMG is Spectre Media Group. This place He does all metal music production stuff.

Oh, yeah, I've seen his stuff. He's real big on Neural Amp Modeler and why everyone is an idiot! 😅

LOL yep that’s him. TBF, NAM is pretty amazing. Only way I can play an Engl.

The "different scale length" comment is spot on... also affects probably relative position of the pickups, string tension. I do think they sound very similar, but there is a small difference and it's likely due to those factors.

From scale length you'd expexr the longer scale guitar to sound brighter, which I think is what I can also hear.

yeah, it's a refreshing exercise in that it shows there's a distinct impact on the sound from the physical design of the guitar without invoking tone wood discussions.