Hey guys!
A friend of mine just bought a 2013 Gibson LP Custom Lite, the one that is thin, has a rosewood board and has a coil-splitting mini toggle switch instead of a tone knob, so the guitar has individual volumes and a master tone.
He gave me the guitar for me to change the stock Gibson pickups with 2 brand new Seymour Duncans I told him to get because I love them... a Pearly Gates for the neck and an SH-5 for the bridge.
I think it should be a very easy swap, I will just join or solder the new pickups right where I remove the old ones, I believe both brands have 4 wires coming out of each pickup. If you have any advice on THIS part of the process, let me know too!
Now here are some questions:
1) I would like to completely bypass the tone, so the guitar will have no tone control.
2) I would like to change that mini toggle (it looks pretty bad... it's so small that it makes the guitar look as if one of the knobs fell out. I thought of a push-pull pot, but, I dunno if it will work since I just want it to be a "switch", meaning, it wont have any other use rather than split the coil, just like the mini toggle currently does. I am not sure if this is possible, most people do this on one of their current tone or volume knobs, but this is not the case, since the idea is to just use the push-pull part of the pot... Or, will it work if I wire it correctly? I haven't bought the switch/pot yet, I was thinking about the 500k DiMarzio one (well, there are many) but I need to know if it will work for what I just stated.
Could you please help me out with the tone bypass thing, maybe a diagram? Remember it's kinda specific to this model because it has the toggle, so if you guys know about how to do it right without compromising with the coil splitting of the guitar, that'd be awesome.
Finally, and this is less important, but, on top of bypassing the tone, how would I bypass the neck volume and make the bridge volume a master volume for both pickups?
Thanks so much!!!
A friend of mine just bought a 2013 Gibson LP Custom Lite, the one that is thin, has a rosewood board and has a coil-splitting mini toggle switch instead of a tone knob, so the guitar has individual volumes and a master tone.
He gave me the guitar for me to change the stock Gibson pickups with 2 brand new Seymour Duncans I told him to get because I love them... a Pearly Gates for the neck and an SH-5 for the bridge.
I think it should be a very easy swap, I will just join or solder the new pickups right where I remove the old ones, I believe both brands have 4 wires coming out of each pickup. If you have any advice on THIS part of the process, let me know too!
Now here are some questions:
1) I would like to completely bypass the tone, so the guitar will have no tone control.
2) I would like to change that mini toggle (it looks pretty bad... it's so small that it makes the guitar look as if one of the knobs fell out. I thought of a push-pull pot, but, I dunno if it will work since I just want it to be a "switch", meaning, it wont have any other use rather than split the coil, just like the mini toggle currently does. I am not sure if this is possible, most people do this on one of their current tone or volume knobs, but this is not the case, since the idea is to just use the push-pull part of the pot... Or, will it work if I wire it correctly? I haven't bought the switch/pot yet, I was thinking about the 500k DiMarzio one (well, there are many) but I need to know if it will work for what I just stated.
Could you please help me out with the tone bypass thing, maybe a diagram? Remember it's kinda specific to this model because it has the toggle, so if you guys know about how to do it right without compromising with the coil splitting of the guitar, that'd be awesome.
Finally, and this is less important, but, on top of bypassing the tone, how would I bypass the neck volume and make the bridge volume a master volume for both pickups?
Thanks so much!!!
