A little shocked, actually

It's certainly a mtter of taste and opinion. I have 2x 2016 LP, the Lzzy Hale is 2018 and my 2019 Custom Shop. All the LPs are circuit board, I think dunno about Lzzy. They sound excellent to me.
My question would be if the components were the same, IF cause I dunno, why would the electrons care what pathway they took wire or PCB?
I'm leaving mine alone.
Incidentally, my new Godin LGX mist be boards all over as it is synth capable. It sounds fantastic! Even just using it as a humbucker electric, it gives the LPs a good run.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
It's certainly a mtter of taste and opinion. I have 2x 2016 LP, the Lzzy Hale is 2018 and my 2019 Custom Shop. All the LPs are circuit board, I think dunno about Lzzy. They sound excellent to me.
My question would be if the components were the same, IF cause I dunno, why would the electrons care what pathway they took wire or PCB?
I'm leaving mine alone.
Incidentally, my new Godin LGX mist be boards all over as it is synth capable. It sounds fantastic! Even just using it as a humbucker electric, it gives the LPs a good run.
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Same value caps and pots, though I do believe the Mojo-branded pots are a significant step up from what was in there stock.
 
A capacitor is just an energy storage device that can also be used as a filter. Some argue that the value of the cap makes a difference but the construction of the cap does not.
Being from an electronics background, I am not really sure what I believe. That said, I always put good caps in my builds. No ceramic crap. I guess that says something right there!
 
gball said:
Same value caps and pots, though I do believe the Mojo-branded pots are a significant step up from what was in there stock.
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The Mojotone pots have a bit tighter tolerance compared to a standard CTS pot (7% vs 10%), but the taper is where the difference is. The Mojotone pots have the "vintage" taper which, IIRC is around 13% (I could be wrong) whereas a stock audio taper CTS pot has a 30% taper. If you run the controls full up it makes no difference, but if you use them the roll off is much more useable being not so abrupt. Cheers
 
gball said:
So at present I have 7 Gibson electrics. Of those, only one came from the factory with a circuit board: my 2017 SG Standard. About a month or so ago the neck volume pot started to get funky, and then finally was just whack, so I decided to buy a wiring harness and replace the board instead of trying to replace the pot on the board. Anyway, ordered a prewired harness from Mojotone, also got a set of pickups, but I decided they are going in another guitar (a long and unrelated story there), so I kept the Classic '57's in my Standard.

I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting any real difference but it is shocking how much the tone of the guitar improved with the new harness. It's bigger and fuller sounding, with a lot more weight in the lower mids than before. The pickups also seem louder and more articulate (and now I am very glad about the decision to keep them in this guitar).

So...turns out I was wrong about the circuit boards and now none of my guitars have one. Anyone else have this experience changing out one of these boards?
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MY SG Classic has one. It is still in there. My Faded SG has had wiring harness and pots swapped from Gib CTS handwired, to my from scratch 50's style wiring from components I got from The Tone Man. New Bournes pots and PIO caps. Glad you like your mod, G
 
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