The pcb wired guitars are inferior to hand wired not because of the printed circuit board but because gibson chooses to use 260k pots for the volume and 460k pots for tone.
Gibson circuit board pickups.
Product registration customer service repair and restoration report counterfeits serial number faq gibson guitar specs 2015 2019 dealer resource center locate a.
I changed the pickups in the guitar and while doing that i also changed out the wiring pots switch and jack.
Some of the vendors on mylespaul do these kits just as nicely for half the price and this is with premium cts 550k pots with vintage taper pio caps etc.
This does not include any guitar or pickups.
A side effect is if you so happen to have a bunch of pickups with the proper connectors it would make for quick swaps.
Gibson can then have less skilled people assemble them.
Changing pickups with gibson circuit board that is a nice upgrade kit the rs one but for what it is it is way overpriced.
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250k pots are fine for fender guitars with single coils.
This is a circuit board wiring harness from a 2018 gibson sg standard.
In this video i review a set of bill lawrence designed circuit board pickups gibson used to make from late 1988 early 1990 called the original hb r n.
In addition they use a cheap 0 01 ceramic disk cap of 0 022 mfd value.
Hi have you compared the two do they sound similar struggling to find a good condition hb l so was thinking to go burstbucker pro.