2016 Gibson flying V PRO pick ups

[AlexR]

Re: 2016 Gibson flying V PRO pick ups

AlexR, I think the wishful thinking on Gibson offering a replacement pickup was via the Walmart "the customer is ALWAYS right" rule. This guitar was purchase as a surprise to me. I had not played it before becoming the owner.

I'm sure a dealer would let you return the guitar if you played it only a couple of times and it wasn't for you....it would have to be able to be sold as 100% new still of course.

Just changing around 1 part......no store would take back something like that. And Walmart would never swap around a small part of the whole either.

 

[freefrog]

Re: 2016 Gibson flying V PRO pick ups

May I provide more food for thought?

Here are some excerpts of the OLD Duncan FAQ’s (those available online 10 or 15 years ago):

228.
Capacitors can be used to reduce brightness in a pickup by soldering one side to ground and the other to the hot output.


291. How do I get more bass out of my pickup?
First I would turn the treble control counter clock-wise to knock off the high end of a pickup. You can also solder one side of a capacitor to the hot terminal of a pickup and solder the other side to ground. I would start with low values until you find the desire roll-off.

It’s not a magical solution but it’s effective in some cases.

I’d start with caps reading from 0.0001µ to 0.001µ (100pF to 1nF). 1,5nF, 2,2nF and 3,3nF would work too but would start to make it sound more “cocked wah”.

Such a cap can be soldered between the hot point and ground lug of the output jack plug, or between those of the bridge pickup only if it’s the only one to be too bright.

If you want to experiment without soldering, a pair of wires with alligator clips would do the job.

Another trick would be to plug the axe through a high capacitance cable but it would be more expensive.

FWIW (= my 2 cents, a capacitor doesn't cost much more than that). ;-)

 

[fabian correa]

Re: 2016 Gibson flying V PRO pick ups

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