Bye, Bye!

[Mr. C.O. Jones]

Why?

 

Well there are three reasons.

 

Picked up Epi Studio Goth and needed the parts for it.

 

And one heck of a scrachy pot on the LPJ's PCB.

 

And like much more how the controlls work on my 50's wired Trad.

 

Bought 4 Emerson Pro 500k pot's, and used the Orange Drops I had from the Trad.

 

The pot's: didn't expect that much difference, but there is they roll smoothly like silk.

Measured them before installing and they were pretty close to 500k, 3 of them between 495 and 500 and one with 486.

Paired with the Orange Drops and the wiring it's like a whole new level.

 

I could swear it sounded a lot darker with the PCB.

I noticed it most with the 57 Classic in neck position. Much brighter now.

And the Angus at the bridge does seem to have mo balls now.

I would even dare to say the guitar is now overall louder, with the volumes on 10.

Cleanig the dirt with the volume controlls is a real pleasure now, and rolling back tone is usable now.

With the PCB I wold have called them mud controlls instead of tone.

The PCB had some weird looking pill-like caps, Z5W 2232.

Almost like hearing her real voice.

May sond crazy, but I'm not exaggerating, it't how I heard it.

May be all in my head, I don't know.

 

This guitar was amazing, now it's even better.

 

Edit: this is no crusade against circuit boards, and I think the Quick Connect idea insn't bad at all.

But like always it should be an option. And they should sell aftermarket PCB's maybe with different wirings/push pull options, pot values etc.

 

I know the reason why all changed that drastically is different pot/cap values and wire capacitance.

Make a 50's style PCB with Orange Drops and it will sound pretty much the same like point to point wiring.

[Guest Farnsbarns]

I wonder if the darker sound with the PCB was down to to the different caps or if the board itself is made badly enough to have significant capacitance of its own. Do you have the means to measure capacitance?

[Mr. C.O. Jones]

I wonder if the darker sound with the PCB was down to to the different caps or if the board itself is made badly enough to have significant capacitance of its own. Do you have the means to measure capacitance?

 

Hmmm....that would be very interessting, but sadly I dont think neither my electrical knowlege nor my cheap a$$ china multimeter wouldn't be very useful for that task.

 

From a visual point, it really doesn't look like a low quality board. The one I'm talking about was the replacement Gibson EU sent me to solve the problem with the different connectors on the Quick Connect PU's I bought.

And I have to say the one that came stock looked a bit better, it had also some weird looking caps on it (blue rectangular thingies).

 

Also the replacement was a bit dusty when it arrived and the tone pot already was a tiny bit scrachy.

I alwas suspected that it may have been in a guitar and was replaced exactly because of this scrachy pot,

and then sent to me to stop me from busting customer care's balls with my e-mail's.

 

I will post some pics as soon as I find a way to fix my netbook.

[merciful-evans]

always good to get such reports. Its something to bear in mind. Thanks for sharing.