I implore you to straighten me out here. Les Paul Tone Wiring content

[Strombasa]

Hello.
I am very easily confused but it seems to me that:

On this Seymour Duncan web page
https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/lespaulwiring
it states that 50's tone control wiring has the capacitor on the bottom of the pot and the ground on the wiper.

On this Seymour Duncan web page
https://www.seymourduncan.com/tonefiend/pickups/vintage-les-paul-wiring-bs-or-bfd/
it states that 50's tone control wiring has the capacitor on the wiper of the pot and the ground on the bottom.

If I were to take the advice of either page, it would probably ought to be the one that is correct. Which one would that be?

And these pages are at least six or seven years old. One of them has been wrong all this whole time.

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[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: I implore you to straighten me out here. Les Paul Tone Wiring content

The important part of 50s wiring is where the tone control connects to the volume pot. In 50s wiring it goes to the wiper on the volume.

Both of those tone controls work the same.


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[Lewguitar]

Re: I implore you to straighten me out here. Les Paul Tone Wiring content

The important part of 50s wiring is where the tone control connects to the volume pot. In 50s wiring it goes to the wiper on the volume.

Both of those tone controls work the same.


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That’s right.

Connect the tone control before the volume control (to the input) and you get the sound of “modern”.

Connect the tone control after the volume control (to the output of the pot...which is the “wiper” or middle lug) and you get 50’s.

Personally, I prefer modern. I think that sound feels thicker and more pleasing.