why did gibson switch over to 300k pots?

Why did Gibson start using 300k pots over 500k? Makes no sense to me, can understand it in a Tele or with p90s but that's it really. Do they still use 300k pots?

Its not a hard and fast rule. My lp platinum has stock pots that read in the 490k range. Gibson branded and everything.

Awesome, what caps it got in there? Seen some Gibson models have had 300k pots and 10 pence caps in there, like really poor quality ceramic caps.

A friends Gibson les Paul from the 90's is like it. Weird? Gibson seem to randomly let qullty control slip once in a while though.

I'm going to try getting myself a deal on a Tele or Gibson les Paul with a local store I use regularly after everyone's birthdays. They're usually good for scoring a deal and are a small family owned store thats been here since the 70s which is nice.

my SG had 300k's and ceramic discs so I put in some bourns pots and Mallory 150s

my LP has stock Gibson branded 500k but the same cheapo ceramic discs, I didn't bother to change them when I swapped the bridge pickup. I thought the controls responded fine, I just didn't care for the burstbucker pro bridge.

Aint the burstbucker pro gibsons attempt of giving the burstbucker a more "modern" sound by chucking a A5 magnet in there instead of the A2 they use in the 1, 2 and 3? Could have just done a magnet swap. Gibson in my opinion make no sense at times, charge a stupid amount of money for a guitar, make it all by hand then cut costs by using shitty caps. Just randomness but alwell. I'm tempted to get the Gibson branded cts pots for my Epiphone seeing as they are the same price as buying 4 cts pots.

I like the SG but feels weird to play. I love the shape and sound but they just feel off, well the one I played did anyway

no, the pros are potted, even the covers.... too much trouble. If they were open coil I woulda swapped magnets. I actually wound up liking the pro neck once it was with a pickup that could keep up with output-wise

Ahh, that sucks but alwell. What ya replace it with?

I replaced the bridge with a 59/custom hybrid and I kept the neck to see if I was more into it with a different bridge pickup and I am happy enough so far. I wanted a hot bridge pickup for sure because a silver les paul is not about being mellow. The 59/custom is a very distinctive pickup. Its got qualities of a dimarzio or JB, PAF and P90 but is nothing like any of them when it al comes together. It can carry off twangy, hot tele bridge cleans and drives an amp into pretty outstanding, rich distortion but it doesn't like distortion and OD pedals much. Makes them sound very "pedaly" to my ear. The 59/custom's sustain is also outstanding even clean. The notes hand for days. Of course, both guitars I have put this model into have superb sustain anyway so YMMV... I also swapped the magnets between the hybrid and pearly in the washburn so its an A5 with pearly gates coils and the hybrid has the long A2 magnet from the pearly... I rather like that setup. I repotted the modified hybrid but I got rid of the pearly's potting to give it a little more real PAF character. I may buy an A4 bar to try in the pearly too, but the washburn sounds really good right now so its not a priority.

I love the hybrid, but I don't think its for everyone.

The hybrid sounds like the sound I've been going for. Might have to try on in my Ibanez lp copy or ny strat and see how it fairs out for me. My JB puts my amp into overdrive and has good sustain, would be better in a better guitar with a good sized trem block rather than this shittiest of the shit squier trem. I may have to give one a go when the Epiphone is back together. I'm to go for the alnico 4 tonerider set I've decided or maybe a a4 neck and a overwound a2 bridge, but more towards that a4 set. I'll have to try that hybrid though

welp, if you are doing coil tapping in a fat-strat then the hybrid is really awesome as the custom coil is a nice strong single for a strat bridge sound. It should do good quack tones with the 2 singles....

I have the jb wired for autosplit but need to swap the phase of the jb or what ever because it is just out of phase and sounds really horrible to be honest, so thin sounding and massively quiet. Think I need to use the green and black wire for coil taps instead or something, will check the wiring diagram on seymours site

Duncan is Black Hot/Positive, Green Negative, Bare is Shield (tied to negative and ground buss), White has to tie to Red to get series, in phase humbucking, so when you tap the wiring should leave Black as +Hot and make White -Ground tied to bare as the shield, or to favor the South coil Green would be +Hot, while Red would stay -Ground tied to bare/shield

if you need help this weekend I got snowed in and its STILL coming down on us in Philly like you wouldn't believe, so I will be playing with my boy and puttering on the web. I will be more than happy to answer electronic questions if you're working on projects this weekend.

No snow for us in the south of England, lots of ice though. Able to walk on the lakes by us at the moment which is nice haha. It's warmedup now so the ice is melting pretty quick. That would be great, I'll let you know if I do

yeah, if you need me to look at anything I have skype, you can show me what's going wrong. Me and Lucian are hanging out at the computer puttering around our favorite respective sites right now.

Its actually been really warm here until now. Unusually warm. It didn't even get down to freezing at night until after x-mas! But the last week it got damned cold and the ice started to show up.... now we have a nor'easter slamming us with 2+ feet of snow since I got home from work last night.

Same here - the snow. It was stupid warm in december, was the warmest in a long time, I think it may have been the warmest december on record in the UK, can't remember. but here around chritsmas it was 18Cs/64F in the day and 12C/54F at night here then this week it has been -2C/28F in the day and -8C/17F at night. but this is pretty normal in the UK weather is weird here and very unpredictable

I cannot recall the last time I saw this much snow pile up in person.

You're lucky, we don't get much snow in the south of England where I live. Last time it snowed we had like 2'' but a year before that we had about 18'' and the two years before that about 3ft. winter here is just random

we get a good blizzard every few years.... we are NOT lucky. You want snow all the time so your local government is ready to handle it OR you want it so seldom that when you DO get it everything shuts down for days...

I just would like it all the time haha. I want to visit Oymyakon at some point in winter to experience a real winter. The temperatures there drop to -70C regularly. But It is nice when everything is forced to close down every once in a while. if you go to manchester etc though they don't close down schools etc with snow unless theres quite a lot of it up there, they're used to it though compared to the south of england. weird country this, one half will get a few times snow every year the other half every once in a while. I love the snow though

Nah, the USA is like that too... I am in the border-area where we can't handle a lot of snow but can handle SOME snow well enough that everything is open most of the winter and people just get in a lot of car accidents LOL Your country I one of the few itty bitty European countries that does not have fairly homogenous weather.... you guys are lucky that way I guess....