you probably dont care at all but does someone know a tool to log back into an instagram account? I was stupid forgot my login password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me!

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@Arian Genesis I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and Im trying it out atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@Arian Genesis it worked and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D Thanks so much you saved my account !

@Cristiano Romeo no problem :)

Thank you! Cheers!

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Yes. For factory ease of production - and this causes the player / purchaser to be essentially completely prevented from modifying the guitar electronics. Pots are not available and can not be customer replacec or changed without a major problem causing a cascade of other following problems, leading to the absolute need to replace 'all' of the control electronics, including impossible pickups and unavailable replacement aftermarket pickups with this weird solderless connection block. Only Gibson would abuse the customer in this way. This pcb junk only makes life hard for the traditional Gibson owner. No one wants to hassle with the pcb electronics. It is extremely difficult and expensive to modify these pcb based guitars. I have not talked to a guitar tech that has replaced a pot on even 1 of these pcb guitars. I replaced the entire electronic system on my Gibson tribute. It was very expensive and 1 problem led to another. It was very time consuming and frustrating work. The guitar should have been thrown in the trash. All kinds of problems with the conversion job. Even the pickups had to be replaced. I dare you to try replacing even 1 pot. Try it ... I dare you to replace even 1 of the pickups with your favorite aftermarket pickup. Try to swap the aftermarket pickup into the pcb system. Find out how extremely difficult and impossible this simple pickup swap is. Gibson has a history of pulling tricks like this against their customers. Customers remember these tricks that make the Gibson guitar purchaser deeply regret buying another Gibson and finding out that it is impossible to work on and modify. Very few players have been successful when tryying to modify tbese pcb guitars, without undue hardship. The average player would not know where or how to begin working on these guitars electronics. These are 'oddball' guitars that are designed to make life as we knew it impossible. I highly recommend throwing your pcb Gibson in the trash before wasting time, money, frustration, and disappointment on Gibson. Gibson corp is very selfish and obviously does not care about how crazy and counterproductive their pcb strategy actually is. Those that like pcb Gibsons are welcome to them. Plenty of players would be happy to give you their pcb Gibsons free. They can't stand them and would rather be rid of them, actually wishing that they had already thrown them away. I'd rather have a cheap Jackson super strat. Or a great Agile LP.

Noticeable how?

@@MrSage22 It's hard to describe.The sound is more forceful but at the same volume, has a distinct character. But it is hard to describe sounds. Also it drives effects in a deeper richer way. You have to hear it. I a/b my less Pauls to make sure it wasn't in my head. Also there is reasons why an old Les Paul sounds different, wiring, I believe is one. Not just the pick- ups.

Pot upgrades alone will cause differences, unless you swapped out the pcb with the exact same pots that are in the pcb, theres gonna be some minor differences. The way current/electricity works is the exact same from direct wiring to pcb. Sound is subjective so i'm sure there was a difference, but if you replaced the pcb with higher quality pots, thats the difference more than likely. 50's to modern wiring itself is another subjective aspect.

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BigEdWo The ones I have in mine are not traditional pots. They have a smaller PCB attached to them which is then soldered to the main pcb but with a mini 3 prong pin connection to the side of it. Maybe it can be done but not easily.

They're still 300K vs. 500K pots, and pots are not expensive anyway. Just replace all of it

I bought them online but don’t remember exactly where. If you search google you should find it.

@@addictedtogear thank you! I subscribed and liked! Good job!👍

You are correct Jody

Arksolva Studio I agree. Thanks for watching.

I have a 2011 SG special and was wanting to put a 57 & 57+ in but after finding out it had a pcb in it I was mortified.. it's literally going to cost as much as I paid for it to get the wiring pots ect . good luck with your search for tonal bliss

That sounds more like a feedback issue to me. Are your pickups wax potted?

I bought it used but it's a Gibson Les Paul Special with P 90s I assume it would be but noticed last night when I hold the guitar away from my area here and away from electrical stuff it stopped @@addictedtogear

I would snip off the end of the old pickup with the plug still on it and use that to connect to the new pickups with some shrink tubing you should be good to go.

@@addictedtogear then I might have problem with selling that pickup..:) If i do it, I will cut it few cm from plug, and solder wires from Wizz to gibson wires.. Maybe the best solution is to solder directly on pot on traditional way..

on mine PCB its probably takes less time to swap pot from pcb than to change string.... Legs from pcb are clearly visible..and there I plan to solder wires from pickups..

Can also just solder to pot like normal. Or wire the existing plug to the sd wires

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Hi Bill, thanks for the information. I prefer options that let me swap out pickups quickly without damaging the pots with excessive heat.

@@addictedtogear think Seymour Duncan makes a adaptor that works with this system that goes on the pick up leads so you can plug and go but again unless its a four wire conductor its pretty much for nothin if you want to use the push pull features so for me its just easier to gut the guitar and start over there used to be a system that just screws the wires too I forget who makes it though

@@billhannum4117 the system you're thinking of is the Seymour Duncan liberator and as far as I know they still make it

You don’t have to change the pots. Just put in the new pickups

Exactly…very frustrating!

Tell us why the pcb is better..

They have to keep thinking up ways to make the old new again!

yes you do unless you can trick wire it somehow.

no you dont..you can change just pot..

Zvonimir Sarcevic anything is possible but looking at how mine is put together it would not be any easy process.

Of course not. Soldering onto a circuit board is just a better way of connecting components. Read a tutorial, have a few practice runs on an old board and hey presto, you've upgraded yourself and hopefully the guitar. All the whining about this is utter nonsense. It would be ridiculous if they weren't using boards at this point in time.

@@simplesimon2960 I respectfully disagree, unnecessarily complex is not "Better" point-to-point wiring is about as simple and reliable as it gets, I like to play around with different pickups and I prefer Seymour Duncan pickups, with this system you pretty much have to use Gibson pickups or splice the f**k out of your wiring which just creates an additional potential fail point. Not to mention the printed circuit boards result in more signal degradation than point to point wiring. So no, more complex isn't automatically Better.

Sorry if I messed up your groove!

@@addictedtogear not you. Gibson! My SG had a PBC. You’re video is great!

I agree hardwired doesn't mean better. That is what I said but PCB is not more convenient either... If you can tell me know I can install a 2 wire pickup using the pcb 4 wire design without mods let me know...Thanks for watching

@@addictedtogear Easy to do. Solder the braid of the pickup to the backside of the volume pot and solder the hot wire to the leg of the pot that goes to the capacitor. I did this so as not to replace it. You're welcome.

How could it possibly be more reliable to have a PCB?

Cheap. Cheap for Gibson. Extremely difficult for the modder. This type of business modeling at loyal customers is just too much.

Nine hole weight relief. Les Paul Classic model. Gibson Guitar of the Week in 2007 . . . (Think of something!! 😳☹️😫) The lineup and smashing of the Firebird X? 🤭Moving Mark Agnesi to Nashville only to then put a gun to his head to make him narrate awkward KZfaq legal threats video(s).🤥😒 🤷🏾‍♂️🖕🏽

I prefer the flexibility of being able to do what I want when I want as opposed to keeping it stock so for me it’s not even an option.

I have nothing against new technology when it is well designed and works properly. I won't trade off flexibility for new technology just for the sake of having something new. When Gibson can make the technology flexible I will be all for it! If you need some modern broken sink plugs let me know. My old ones still work perfectly LOL Thanks for watching

@@addictedtogear I have those clicky sink plugs, also had the same problem, but I fixed it. Unscrew the whole thing, add an extra washer and you'll never have another problem. To be honest, I usually frown when Gibson introduces new stuff, because it's mostly something someone half-assed into production just because they needed a "modern" selling point. Have a look at the 2018/19 boards, they're as simple as can be, offer you all the versatility you'll ever need, stock, but you can easily mod it any way you want, same components, same everything, it's just solderless.

Yes it is a step in the right direction. I just don't think they should insist on putting it on all their guitars. It would be nice to have a choice for those who want it.@@brunogarcia6506

I have nothing against bord..but Gibson is is selling 0,1$ connector for 30-60$ that I manage to fined....that sucks. But you can bypass it..

@@addictedtogear As far as I know, they offer traditionally wired models as well. Apart from that, there's about two decades worth of Gibsons to buy (cheaper than the new/moderns) from the used market. Or, just buy a Vintage (brand) or Tokai guitar and have the same, or better quality at a fraction of the price, also, no PCBs in those. 👌

I agree with you regarding PCB being better in terms of quality control. I just don't like the way Gibson executed the design of the board. It doesn't make it simpler. It could have been great but they messed it up with the clips IMO. Thanks for watching!

This is 'not' better for the average player or modder. Most players are not engineers and can't begin to work on even simple repairs to this ridiculous technology. Notice that aftermarket pickups with these specific connectors are made by no one - no company makes drop in aftermarket pickups for these Gibsons. I personally have 'never' seen even 1 of these type of pots aftermarket. I have not seen even 1 yt on how to replace even 1 of these pots, and, I'm totally 'not' interested. I have not found even 1 guitar tech that is ready to work on my pcb. Parts are not available and they have zero experience working on these guitars, plus none of them are engineers. They are all old school players and enthusiasts. How much would you charge to rebuild the entire electronics system on 1 of these guitars for a disappointed owner? I'm sure that the ordinary labor rate for a qualified technician is very high and that the customer would wait a long time before the job was completed. I think the pcb design is a complicated way to make an expensive guitar most difficult for the purchaser to maintain and work on. A cheap Asian guitar with point to point wiring and standard parts will leave the customer far ahead of these Gibson monstrosities.

I use the KISS method. Keep it simple stupid

Its B Lo mine does not have any dip switches on it. The new models may have the dip switches but also have other issues that I won’t go into. That’s another video in itself! Thanks for watching!

Not everybody likes technology. AKA all of your hand wired instruments and amps cost a lot more. And guess what people pay... you are not cool you little douche.