Just did the same to my Les Paul, Epi Les Paul Special and SG per the Kris Barocsi vid. I agree, Really brought them to life. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n5yiZq6bus7XqI0.html

I've been fine tuning the pole pieces in my PRS 245 with a Seymour Duncan JB and a Jazz in the neck. It really allowed me to even the volume of each string, it's much brighter and has more mids. It sounds like a Tele on steroids now 👍

Yeah, did the same on the bridge of my Epi after I read about it in Guitarist Magazine's Tone Manual. I went too far with it though, and it didn't sound good initially, but if you can get the balance right between the polepiece height and the overall pickup height below the strings you can really add loads of clarity and cut some of the mud without actually buying any new parts.

The pole piece trick is very effective. I have a 2008 R8 with Burstbuckers. I lowered the pickups flat with the rings and raised the pole pieces a couple turns and it brightened everything up quite a bit. The guitar is much more articulate and doesn't smack the front end of the amp quite as hard.

@@edmiglia "a Tele on steroids" is how Jimmy Page and others have described the perfect, original Les Paul tone.

Seriously!

same here.

Yup

LOL!

😎 same here

@@martynsparkes7118 Nice reply, you bitter and envious tit.

@@martynsparkes7118 I guess the readers of Guitarist Magazine disagree www.musicradar.com/news/the-10-best-blues-guitarists-in-the-world-today

Martyn Sparkes and I guess you’re a ‘never bothered to run’? Chris is quite obviously one of the best guitarists around and has been identified as such

I use an eq pedal only with my les Paul it’s so dark and sounds great but with the EQ I cut in the mix perfectly!

See Stephen's design pickups on KZfaq for the real deal replacement parts to get you to the original 59

@@daniellaudman8580 Royal Mount brass posts and thumb wheels and a Four Uncles bridge is what took my LP to more vintage specs and tone.

The Faber is a good sounding Abr bridge.

same

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300's for me as well

Yep, those low to low mid frequencies he removed tend to be the frequencies where the bass guitar gets its definition, so for the overall band mix it definitely makes sense to remove them from the guitar sound. If the band has a barytone vocalist, it is even more important to do so.

Wire a pickup bypassing the whole circuit, straight in. Big difference.

@@bayougtr Seven months later, I realize that the pickups themselves are reactive (inductive). Higher resistance volume pots _will_ affect the tone by moving the cutoff frequency of the low pass filter formed by the pickups and pots higher. In my original comment, I overlooked the fact that pickups are inductors.

I had a 58 jazzmaster and it sounded with t top buckers and 350 or somewhere close pots like jimmy p.les paul sound they were unpotted p ups had been played in the streets of paris for yrs. But this guy got ahold of my guit. I said only replace the toggle switch it was straight r.t.no switches on guitar it sounded great no wax cloth 350 i think the pots were he replaced the pots 500 k the wireing all this crap i told him you idiot you just bought it it sounded nothing like it did the pups were slightly mocrophonic i loved it my favorite guitar ever sounded like jimmys sound through a dual recto trem o verb on sag exactly gave me better sound than ive ever heard noone believed it they said it was a 60s jag no i took off the neck sept 58 the pots im prettu sure were fender pots from the time era but my guitar sounded phenominal feedback cool as can be musical depending on were you stood and played the angle you pointed the headstock at amp i played communication breakdown it sounded dead on no pedals nothing and the feedback was monsterously musical i told do not touch it he did he fkd. It all up forever it sounded new brash stupid it had to do with those pots it was so killer and musical even mistakes sounded musical you couldnt hit a wrong note that didnt sound right because of the tonal difference i told him it took all those yearsvand mismatched components to get that sound he never even heard the difference at all i said uou bought it allmost cried it was perfect one in a lifetime sound. No microphonocs no character like a brand new piece of st. I was heartbroken and never have i gotten that sound again it souded stale lifeless buzzless it was like someone gave it a lobotomy it was treason to me to this day nothing even touches it but ive noticed the 2 buckers the unwaxed pups the lower 350 i think there was solder on them covering it somewhat it was 3something that was cool it might have been wired straight with no caps i dont know as he disposed of it as he thought this sounds like crap it sounded like nothing i ever heard like neil youngs black the mistakes gave it life now its just yuppy junk all perfect stale souless ill never know what it was i know chris what you mean about the inaudible difference i heard it plain as day he waschumiliated and said i was crazy i heard then whar people are noticing now theres something to the wammy too on a jazz or jag thats super cool i have wammys bigsbys etc on everthing as they ad colour to sound the shape responds to humbucks kurt co. And the neck is also real nice i want to try to build one simular no stale guitar teacher sound straight superhighcool factor monsstrosity i cant remember if the pots had caps or what kind it was like having a stepford wife after having janisjoplin as girlfriend i also didnt like how she got treated as she was a one off . Bad comparison but somehow relative. Take care play a old tonemaster tell me what you think bruce erafender.94 serious im curious as to your thoughts please man if i knew ya we would have fun in investigating things unique and important to us science of sound geeks ( not really at all) curious fellows mates in whats ticken as the sound is kicken.love ya keep it up your a good man engish.

Tweeds have a way with sound thats their own i dig the calitweed in the lowest setting best tone m bruce z. And vibro k. Phenominal also cant understand why there so fkn.great also i liked the victory 140 too calitweed needs a different spr. To make it a magic piece its a experience to plug into itll take you new places.spkr. needs tweek to get full experience cant put my finger on it . Bruce z. Era fend.s and on n on .peace b.

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I have the same pickups in my Les Paul and my SG. I lowered the pickups in the Les Paul and it lowered their output and gave them more clarity. I left them higher in the SG so even though they have the same pickups, they sound quite different.

@@Dreyno Hi David, thanks for the reply. I've since gone further down the rabbit hole, lowered both pickups, raised the pole pieces on the neck and swapped the magnets in the pickups, the A2 from the neck to the bridge and the A5 from bridge to neck. I think the balance of the two is better now but they're really marginal changes.

@@pierrederesistance Yeah. I’ve found most mods could’ve been replicated by tweaking a knob on the guitar, on the amp or on a pedal. Everything I have now is pretty much stock and will be left that way unless I decide to build my own partscaster. More time playing and less time modding is my motto now.