A little shocked, actually

My 2018 SG standard had the circuit board and the '61 pups. I didn't like the sound, so l put in a 57 classic and 57 classic plus with 550K CTS pots and a .022/.015 orange drop arrangement wired 50's style. Much better imo. None of my Gibsons have circuit boards now.
 
Cadorman said:
My 2018 SG standard had the circuit board and the '61 pups. I didn't like the sound, so l put in a 57 classic and 57 classic plus with 550K CTS pots and a .022/.015 orange drop arrangement wired 50's style. Much better imo. None of my Gibsons have circuit boards now.
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If I end up buying one again in the future it will be with the expectation that I am going to gut it and drop new wiring in.
 
I believe the new 50's and 60's Les Paul's come hand wired now. I think most of the other non custom shop have boards. My 2018 V is hand wired. They probably don't sell enough of those in lefty to justify production of a circuit board.
 
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Cadorman said:
I believe the new 50's and 60's Les Paul's come hand wired now. I think most of the other non custom shop have boards. My 2018 V is hand wired. They probably don't sell enough of those in lefty to justify production of a circuit board.
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I’m fairly certain they got shown the door with Hank J. And they were never used across the board: I have two 2016’s, a 2017, 2019 and 2020. Only the 2017 SG came with a circuit board, all others have traditional wiring.
 
well -- its all original -- 50 years old and still works..............................so they did SOMETHING RIGHT ........................
 
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I’m fairly certain they got shown the door with Hank J. And they were never used across the board: I have two 2016’s, a 2017, 2019 and 2020. Only the 2017 SG came with a circuit board, all others have traditional wiring.
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My 2019 LP Standard has regular pots and caps.
 
Interesting! I never expected the board to make that much of a difference. I yave a circuit board in my 2011 SG but I like the way it sounds so I'm not gonna tinker with it.
 
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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Interesting observation.

It would be interesting to know how the resistive and capacitive values of the PCB components compared to the harness components.

Your take on the 57 Classics with this harness is interesting, too.

I replaced the A2 magnets in mine with A4s awhile back, but I'm toying around with putting the A2 magnets back in.
 
smitty_p said:
Interesting observation.

It would be interesting to know how the resistive and capacitive values of the PCB components compared to the harness components.

Your take on the 57 Classics with this harness is interesting, too.

I replaced the A2 magnets in mine with A4s awhile back, but I'm toying around with putting the A2 magnets back in.
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I’ve always liked the response of A2s with gain, they clean up really nicely with the volume knob.
 
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