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Cheers, I’m still tron whether to buy some form of treble booster to give me more highs, or spend 2-3 times the money on a new set of pickups. I prefer active pickups anyway so I might just bite the bullet. Cheers, Jon.
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> The two volume pots allow you to "blend" the pickups, giving you more > control over a single volume pot. As for the tone, IMHO a Gibson with > humbuckers is not going to sound as bright as a Strat. If a Strat sound is > what you want, maybe you should consider swapping out the bridge pickup for > something brighter. Leave the two volume controls and you should have a lot > of options.
You’re absolutely right about no humbucker being able to re-create the Strat bridge pickups sound – ain’t in their nature, any more than a Strat single-coil can re-create the Gibson humbucker sound. Possible replacing the bridge pickup on the Gibson with a tapped-coil humbucker might give him the best of both worlds – just a thought. The Old Guy – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi, > Wandering if anyone could halp me with this problem. I can see how two > tone pots are useful on a gibson, but are there any great advantages > of having two volume pots? > The reason why, I feel my les paul custom is just lacking a bit the > high end, pretty much happy with the pickups and love the clean sound. > But after replying to Pt about the bass booster, I thought a treble > booster may be the answer to my problems. > The one I’ve found is the EMG-RPC. Its variable pot that goes from > natural and as you turn it, it boosts the highs and cuts the bass, > effectively making the humbucker more and more strat like. Problem > is, its a pot and I dont fancy a guitar tech drilling more holes into > my gibson LP custom and I dont want a dedicated treble boost. So was > thinking of loosing a volume pot, putting both pickups on 1 volume > pot, then EMG-RPC could use the free hole. > Does this sound like it would work? One thing I’m not sure on is if I > need active pickups,it says the the EMG-RPC is an active EQ circuit > but not whether it requirs active pickups or not. > I’ve just discovered Led Zeppelin this week (I had a poor qulity > recording of some dodgey songs, put me off for ages) and its some > seriously good stuff, never knew stairway to heaven had that great > riffage at the end. – have to say tho, the How the west was won live > album is great, live stuff tends to sound better if its a descent > band. > I read that Jimi Page has humbucker/single coil choosable pickups and > a phase switch. Which is why I think his guitar sometimes sounds alot > lighter than a gibson should. I’m hoping that the EMG-RPC would get > me closer to these sort of sounds. Anybody think this’ll work or is > it just a load of balls? > Just one more thing, would cutting the bass as well make the guitar to > light, i.e. soloing wise will it not cut through or be powerfull > enough for say, AC/DC style solos, i.e soloing over distortion. Would > I be better off with just a treble boost? > Any help would be most appreciated!, > Cheers, Jon > Oh yeah, just as an extra, I also discovered Black Sabbath last week > as well, and its great (+ ZZ top!). I never realised pantera’s Planet > Cavern and metallicas cover of Sabbra Cadabra were actually Sabath > songs. > I would certainly advice any ‘rocker’ to get into AC/DC, Sabbath and > any guitarist should certainly 100% listen to some Led Zeppelin, then > listen to some more! > Jimi hendrix, who’s that??? dont you mean Jimi Page?! Thats the way!
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The two volume pots allow you to "blend" the pickups, giving you more control over a single volume pot. As for the tone, IMHO a Gibson with humbuckers is not going to sound as bright as a Strat. If a Strat sound is what you want, maybe you should consider swapping out the bridge pickup for something brighter. Leave the two volume controls and you should have a lot of options.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi, > Wandering if anyone could halp me with this problem. I can see how two > tone pots are useful on a gibson, but are there any great advantages > of having two volume pots? > The reason why, I feel my les paul custom is just lacking a bit the > high end, pretty much happy with the pickups and love the clean sound. > But after replying to Pt about the bass booster, I thought a treble > booster may be the answer to my problems. > The one I’ve found is the EMG-RPC. Its variable pot that goes from > natural and as you turn it, it boosts the highs and cuts the bass, > effectively making the humbucker more and more strat like. Problem > is, its a pot and I dont fancy a guitar tech drilling more holes into > my gibson LP custom and I dont want a dedicated treble boost. So was > thinking of loosing a volume pot, putting both pickups on 1 volume > pot, then EMG-RPC could use the free hole. > Does this sound like it would work? One thing I’m not sure on is if I > need active pickups,it says the the EMG-RPC is an active EQ circuit > but not whether it requirs active pickups or not. > I’ve just discovered Led Zeppelin this week (I had a poor qulity > recording of some dodgey songs, put me off for ages) and its some > seriously good stuff, never knew stairway to heaven had that great > riffage at the end. – have to say tho, the How the west was won live > album is great, live stuff tends to sound better if its a descent > band. > I read that Jimi Page has humbucker/single coil choosable pickups and > a phase switch. Which is why I think his guitar sometimes sounds alot > lighter than a gibson should. I’m hoping that the EMG-RPC would get > me closer to these sort of sounds. Anybody think this’ll work or is > it just a load of balls? > Just one more thing, would cutting the bass as well make the guitar to > light, i.e. soloing wise will it not cut through or be powerfull > enough for say, AC/DC style solos, i.e soloing over distortion. Would > I be better off with just a treble boost? > Any help would be most appreciated!, > Cheers, Jon > Oh yeah, just as an extra, I also discovered Black Sabbath last week > as well, and its great (+ ZZ top!). I never realised pantera’s Planet > Cavern and metallicas cover of Sabbra Cadabra were actually Sabath > songs. > I would certainly advice any ‘rocker’ to get into AC/DC, Sabbath and > any guitarist should certainly 100% listen to some Led Zeppelin, then > listen to some more! > Jimi hendrix, who’s that??? dont you mean Jimi Page?! Thats the way!
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Hi, Wandering if anyone could halp me with this problem. I can see how two tone pots are useful on a gibson, but are there any great advantages of having two volume pots? The reason why, I feel my les paul custom is just lacking a bit the high end, pretty much happy with the pickups and love the clean sound. But after replying to Pt about the bass booster, I thought a treble booster may be the answer to my problems. The one I’ve found is the EMG-RPC. Its variable pot that goes from natural and as you turn it, it boosts the highs and cuts the bass, effectively making the humbucker more and more strat like. Problem is, its a pot and I dont fancy a guitar tech drilling more holes into my gibson LP custom and I dont want a dedicated treble boost. So was thinking of loosing a volume pot, putting both pickups on 1 volume pot, then EMG-RPC could use the free hole. Does this sound like it would work? One thing I’m not sure on is if I need active pickups,it says the the EMG-RPC is an active EQ circuit but not whether it requirs active pickups or not. I’ve just discovered Led Zeppelin this week (I had a poor qulity recording of some dodgey songs, put me off for ages) and its some seriously good stuff, never knew stairway to heaven had that great riffage at the end. – have to say tho, the How the west was won live album is great, live stuff tends to sound better if its a descent band. I read that Jimi Page has humbucker/single coil choosable pickups and a phase switch. Which is why I think his guitar sometimes sounds alot lighter than a gibson should. I’m hoping that the EMG-RPC would get me closer to these sort of sounds. Anybody think this’ll work or is it just a load of balls? Just one more thing, would cutting the bass as well make the guitar to light, i.e. soloing wise will it not cut through or be powerfull enough for say, AC/DC style solos, i.e soloing over distortion. Would I be better off with just a treble boost? Any help would be most appreciated!, Cheers, Jon Oh yeah, just as an extra, I also discovered Black Sabbath last week as well, and its great (+ ZZ top!). I never realised pantera’s Planet Cavern and metallicas cover of Sabbra Cadabra were actually Sabath songs. I would certainly advice any ‘rocker’ to get into AC/DC, Sabbath and any guitarist should certainly 100% listen to some Led Zeppelin, then listen to some more! Jimi hendrix, who’s that??? dont you mean Jimi Page?! Thats the way!