Hi
I have one of those Gibson 'glitches' a Les Paul Special DC from 1962.
Lovely guitar, looks amazing - but I'm finding the bridge pickup increasingly frustrating.
The neck (more like a middle pickup, it's so far back) pickup is wonderful. The bridge pickup has always been for my ears the poor relation, lacking power and very ice pick like.
I played a similar guitar and it had much more of what I expected from a P90, that had the pickup much higher.
Mine had the polepieces almost all the way out of the pickup, screwing them in has got halfway there - for chords the sound is more powerful, but not as strong as I would like. But single notes are still all treble and lacking power.
I'm thinking of shimming the pickup, since it's very low (way over 1/2 inch below the strings) but this will need a luthier since one of the mounting screws is completely fouled Before I do this, does this sound like a too low pickup?
Thanks!
I have one of those Gibson 'glitches' a Les Paul Special DC from 1962.
Lovely guitar, looks amazing - but I'm finding the bridge pickup increasingly frustrating.
The neck (more like a middle pickup, it's so far back) pickup is wonderful. The bridge pickup has always been for my ears the poor relation, lacking power and very ice pick like.
I played a similar guitar and it had much more of what I expected from a P90, that had the pickup much higher.
Mine had the polepieces almost all the way out of the pickup, screwing them in has got halfway there - for chords the sound is more powerful, but not as strong as I would like. But single notes are still all treble and lacking power.
I'm thinking of shimming the pickup, since it's very low (way over 1/2 inch below the strings) but this will need a luthier since one of the mounting screws is completely fouled Before I do this, does this sound like a too low pickup?
Thanks!