Re: Gibson Les Paul

Tony Done wrote:
Here's an interesting experiment for you. Turn the tone controls to
10, put the switch in the middle position, the bridge volume to 10
and the neck volume to 0. The gradually turn up the neck volume.
Listen to the tone. On my 335 knockoff (with SD Jazz pickups), there
is a position where you get some output (about 2 on the neck volume),
but the tone is modified to something like a midrange boost. It seems
as if the neck pickup is acting like a capacitor/inductor for the
bridge pickup. Try it and tell me if you can hear the same thing, or
whether it is my imagination.

Some twin pickup guitars have the pots wired
backwards. Sounds like yours does. When that's
the case, putting the selector switch on BOTH
pickups allows both tone controls to control
each other. In some cases the volume pots are
wired backwards as well.

It's not backwards as in "clockwise turns the vol down"
but it's backwards as in which side of the pot feeds
the signal to ground.

Even some Gibbies are wired that way.

A correctly wired twin pickup guitar should not
see any interaction between the two pups when
in the "both" position.


Lumpy
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