Post by furrykef on Nov 9, 2005 18:54:30 GMT -5
On my Epiphone Les Paul, if you have the switch in the middle position and you turn one volume knob all the way down, both pickups will be silent. This sort of problem is discussed on this page:
It says this will happen if the Les Paul is wired as you would a Fender. Apparently, this wrong way is the way Epiphone does it (a guy I was talking to at the guitar shop said all Epiphones did it).
My question is if having the volume cut off when one knob is all the way off is the only problem with this coupled volume knob setup (in which case I don't really care about it), or will the knobs not work quite right in other ways?
One reason I ask is this... let's say I have all the knobs turned to 10, except the rhythm tone knob is down to 0. This creates a pretty good sound for me when the distortion's cranked up, and goes perfectly with a half-rocked wah pedal for that "Money for Nothing" tone. Now let's say I roll off the rhythm pickup's volume from 10 to 9. All of a sudden there's a very drastic change in tone, and it sounds a lot more like the treble pickup by itself. Of course one would expect this from rolling back the rhythm volume knob, but not from 10 to 9. Rolling the treble's volume from 10 to 9 instead fattens the sound as one would expect from my out-of-phase pickups (I did the Peter Green mod of flipping the magnet), but doesn't make so drastic a change.
Do you think this is because of the coupling, because of something else, or is this actually normal for a Les Paul?
- Kef
It says this will happen if the Les Paul is wired as you would a Fender. Apparently, this wrong way is the way Epiphone does it (a guy I was talking to at the guitar shop said all Epiphones did it).
My question is if having the volume cut off when one knob is all the way off is the only problem with this coupled volume knob setup (in which case I don't really care about it), or will the knobs not work quite right in other ways?
One reason I ask is this... let's say I have all the knobs turned to 10, except the rhythm tone knob is down to 0. This creates a pretty good sound for me when the distortion's cranked up, and goes perfectly with a half-rocked wah pedal for that "Money for Nothing" tone. Now let's say I roll off the rhythm pickup's volume from 10 to 9. All of a sudden there's a very drastic change in tone, and it sounds a lot more like the treble pickup by itself. Of course one would expect this from rolling back the rhythm volume knob, but not from 10 to 9. Rolling the treble's volume from 10 to 9 instead fattens the sound as one would expect from my out-of-phase pickups (I did the Peter Green mod of flipping the magnet), but doesn't make so drastic a change.
Do you think this is because of the coupling, because of something else, or is this actually normal for a Les Paul?
- Kef
