JohnHurley
Rock and Roll
So I have been thinking for a while about making a change. My 2017 LP tribute HP is just a gorgeous guitar and has the 57 / 57+ pickup combination that I love. However it had no capabilities of switching anything it comes out of the box with ( of course ) the gibson circuit board quick connect but no push pull capabilities.
I had been checking out some of the various options to give it more flexibility. ( OK I am spoiled by my other gibson HP models ). I know lots of people hate the circuit board thing and want to rip all that out and go old school.
But anyhow on eBay I had been looking at some of the pulled out LP circuit boards that had the push pull pots ( and maybe even DIP switches ). Yikes some of the prices are crazy.
About 10 days ago I found on eBay a "parts only" ( so it was not guaranteed to work as a unit ) LP 4 push/pull circuit board including shipping I paid 43 bucks. It does not have the DIP switches.
I put it in this morning. Dang those quick connect things are hard to deal with between big fingers and bad eyesight but still not horrible doing the change between old circuit board and new.
The replacement one gives me push/pull on the two volumes ( so gives coil tap on either pickup or both when up ). It gives me phase switch ( to out of phase ) on the neck tone when up. ( Bridge tone up gives pure bypass ).
I'm really happy with this change. I have been playing along with a bunch of the early Peter Green Fleetwood Mac blues numbers. I am no Peter Green unfortunately but a wanna be certainly.
I guess I should include a picture of my guitar but yikes it looks the same! I'm not trying to push fleabay or any specific seller but message me if anyone wants to know where I found this the seller has a couple more of these available I think. Oh yeah also that's the Boss Katana Air bluetooth adapter plugged in at the bottom.
I had been checking out some of the various options to give it more flexibility. ( OK I am spoiled by my other gibson HP models ). I know lots of people hate the circuit board thing and want to rip all that out and go old school.
But anyhow on eBay I had been looking at some of the pulled out LP circuit boards that had the push pull pots ( and maybe even DIP switches ). Yikes some of the prices are crazy.
About 10 days ago I found on eBay a "parts only" ( so it was not guaranteed to work as a unit ) LP 4 push/pull circuit board including shipping I paid 43 bucks. It does not have the DIP switches.
I put it in this morning. Dang those quick connect things are hard to deal with between big fingers and bad eyesight but still not horrible doing the change between old circuit board and new.
The replacement one gives me push/pull on the two volumes ( so gives coil tap on either pickup or both when up ). It gives me phase switch ( to out of phase ) on the neck tone when up. ( Bridge tone up gives pure bypass ).
I'm really happy with this change. I have been playing along with a bunch of the early Peter Green Fleetwood Mac blues numbers. I am no Peter Green unfortunately but a wanna be certainly.
I guess I should include a picture of my guitar but yikes it looks the same! I'm not trying to push fleabay or any specific seller but message me if anyone wants to know where I found this the seller has a couple more of these available I think. Oh yeah also that's the Boss Katana Air bluetooth adapter plugged in at the bottom.