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  1. Next time you do your fretboard, get some valve oil for a reed instrument (Sax, Trumpet etc.) and let the oil sit overnight on the fretboard and wipe clean the next day. You will be amazed... Lemon Oil builds up, this does not and really is a fretboard lifesaver in dry climates like AZ and SoCal.. but works everywhere. I was shown this many many years ago by a top Luthier. I said *BS* too until he proved me wrong.... I know you have the low muddy sound issue resolved, imagine the smile he would have with a set of Duncans, new pots and treble bleed caps.. Stock Epi's sound muddy, look at how many mod threads there are on that issue... there is a reason for that.
  2. The main reason for that is most guitar company's use a lineal tone pot instead of an audio tone pot. Lineal has a much shorter "travel" (like 1-4) than a true audio taper pot that will travel from 1-8 range. Every Epi I own has been rewired using CTS audio pots and .05 Orange Drop caps. I have one LP (a custom) that has open face Duncan 59's in it and it sounds very good. It does tend to go harmonic quite easy due to the chambers (??) and I suspect the open PUP's. I have an Epi LP Standard that I used the same Duncan 59's but put covers on (with a complete wiring overhaul) and they are butter... much better than open. The audio clip was interesting but with all that distortion, while I could hear a difference, I really would have liked to hear it clean.
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