Threepwood

Especially if you use several amps, in my case several different profiles on the Kemper. The guitar behaves differently with every profile, as seems logical. That's the reason why a setting might work for one person but not the other. I also own a ES-125 type guitar and you can't even adjust the P90. In a way I even enjoy that limitation as I just have to live with it.

I had actually googled this topic a lot and never found this link. Comes to show how different google results are depending on the region. The guy who wrote the article has his pickup height set to pretty much exactly the height I thought mine sound best. So that definitely means I rest a bit calmer now. Thanks!

Nice to meet you all. I'm a US educated German living in Norway whose favorite bands play Fender guitars and amps and who still prefers Gibsons and Marshalls. So I guess I'll be able to bring some confusion and contradiction to the table.

Hi everyone, nice to meet you all! So, I own a Gibson Les Paul Special with two P90s. Love the guitar but recently I've been playing around a lot with my pickup heights and now I'm totally confused. Kinda wish I hadn't messed with it at all or at least written down how it came out of the factory... I know that the neck position is usually louder than the bridge. But I am still confused on the best position. Some people write the pickups should be as close to the strings as possible but if I bring my neck too close there's just too much bass in my amp (I am using the Kemper, different profiles, mainly Marshalls and Tweeds. There's even too much bass when I turn the bass knob all the way down if the neck is too high). I tried to set up the guitar so that the neck pickup sounds great and then adjust the bridge pickup accordingly. But it's kinda extreme. I have to lower the neck quite a bit so that it doesn't have too much bass and then I need a fairly bright amp for it to sound clear. But that means I need to REALLY lower the treble knob on the bridge. Like if the volume is at 10 I need to go down to something between 2-3 on the treble. Is that normal, having bass treble at 10 and bridge at 3? How do you guys handle this type of guitar? I don't mind having to use different positions on the volume knobs in order to have a balanced middle position, but currently I'm driving myself crazy thinking I'm not using the pickups as they were intended. Any help? Can you list your pickup heights? (If I can choose - I use the metric system. 😅) Thanks a lot!