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I
have read the useful hints in your pages, and
found many helpful schematic diagrams for alternative
pickup cominations on the LesPaul I have.
I'm wondering how Jimmy
Page had modified his Les Paul Standard, as Gibson
decided to implement the same electric wiring
in the reissue signature model. They put on their
web site only the standard schematics......
Is it possible to get
this schematic diagram ? The switches used there
to get out-of-phase wiring are push-pull axial
in the potentiometers (a good idea).
>> Jimmy Page's LP I believe uses a push-pull
switch on all 4 controls. I don't know which switch
is on which control, but from a review I read,
the switches are:
- 2 x pickup humbucker/single coil
- parallel/series
- in phase/out of phase
This gives access to just about every sensible
sound (and a few useless sounds) you could get
out of these humbuckers. It is tremendously versatile
for home/recording work, but I really don't like
this approach for live work. As I've promoted
in my pages, I favour a simple switching system
that gives quick and easy access to the good sounds.
For example, to go from a solo bridge humbucker
sound to a both-pickups single coil sound, Jimmy
would have to pull out 2 knobs (possibly more
if the others are not left in the right position)
and move the pickup selector. This is just not
practical live. On my switching arrangement, it's
one mini-toggle switch and the pickup selector.
You can see it at my 'What I Use' page.
I also don't favour push-pull knobs for live
work; I find them pretty fiddly compared to toggle
switches aligned to switch in the natural direction
your hand moves. Of course, if you're not into
live work, ignore all of this. The switches should
be easy to work out: the parallel/single switches
work on each pickup alone, the phase switch reverses
the hot and 'cold' of one pickup (either one),
while the series/parallel probably bypasses the
selector switch to connect the pickups in series
(I'm not so sure about this one). All of this
can be done with standard DPDT switches.
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