This is how i do it, old school. Amp set for classic rock degree of overdrive and volume gets quite clean on 5. I'm a lifetime fender guy who's got a LP wraptail special that does this as well as my fenders but i just got a LP standard and haven't had one of these since the 80s. All my guitars are single coil except this new LP. Heres my problem.....when i roll down the volume it never sounds very clean till about 2 and at that point it's becoming too weak and unusable. At 3 it's usable but much dirtier then my other guitars at 5. It just gets kind dull and lifeless that low. I'm looking for the answer, but please note i DO have decades of experience modding guitars so the usual reasoning's are ones i have tried. I expect there is no answer because i've done it all, but I'm posting this out of desperation in hopes theres something i haven't thought of. It may just be the way humbuckes and maple capped mahogany set neck are and nothing i can do about it. In any case, heres what i have tried...
Pickups are A2 PAF output. Tried putting A5 in them
tried a new set of mojotone 59 unpotted clones
tried every imaginable pickup adjustment both height and screw poles.
Works worlds better when i split them but i want humbucker tone for this, not single coil
tried removing the covers
installed faber steel bushings in the body for the bridge and aluminum stop bar, putting stop bar bushing in tomorrow. Studs are steel. These things help by making it more clear but issue persists tho not as bad
installed treble bleed and tried 250, 500 and 1000pf. No resistor or it would just get more dull and muddiy.
tone controls are not hooked up
tail is screwed down all the way and i have also tried it up to relieve break angle.
installed bone nut
tried several quality pots and insured the taper was not different then usual by comparing middle position to input lug resistance and also insure pot tolerance wasn't way low. Current volume pot is top end CTS 497k (guitar wired like fender, IE: one overall volume pot)
Thats all i can recall but i probably did more. Anyways, it just seems like the signal gets reduced as i roll it down pretty much like other guitars, but while it may not seem to make sense, the clarity never happens and the sound stays dirtier sounding than it should, just very compress and rather dull. I don't know if this is a electronic thing of the wood/hardware, but i've done eveything i can think of as electronics go and in HSS strats that i used for years i never had this happen with even hot humbuckers. Any ideas?
Pickups are A2 PAF output. Tried putting A5 in them
tried a new set of mojotone 59 unpotted clones
tried every imaginable pickup adjustment both height and screw poles.
Works worlds better when i split them but i want humbucker tone for this, not single coil
tried removing the covers
installed faber steel bushings in the body for the bridge and aluminum stop bar, putting stop bar bushing in tomorrow. Studs are steel. These things help by making it more clear but issue persists tho not as bad
installed treble bleed and tried 250, 500 and 1000pf. No resistor or it would just get more dull and muddiy.
tone controls are not hooked up
tail is screwed down all the way and i have also tried it up to relieve break angle.
installed bone nut
tried several quality pots and insured the taper was not different then usual by comparing middle position to input lug resistance and also insure pot tolerance wasn't way low. Current volume pot is top end CTS 497k (guitar wired like fender, IE: one overall volume pot)
Thats all i can recall but i probably did more. Anyways, it just seems like the signal gets reduced as i roll it down pretty much like other guitars, but while it may not seem to make sense, the clarity never happens and the sound stays dirtier sounding than it should, just very compress and rather dull. I don't know if this is a electronic thing of the wood/hardware, but i've done eveything i can think of as electronics go and in HSS strats that i used for years i never had this happen with even hot humbuckers. Any ideas?
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