So I took delivery of one of these today, a Gibson-based Korean built Agile 3200MCC Gold P90 guitar. Seems like a great guitar so far, but I've never owned an LP-style guitar with dual volume and tone controls. This one also has push-pull tone pots to tap the coils. I had the impression that with the switch in the middle position with guitars wired this way, one could balance the two pickup volumes to taste, and this seems to work as long as the neck volume on this guitar is not down too far: if the neck volume is very low or completely off with the selector in the middle position, there is no sound regardless of the bridge pickup volume setting. In the middle position I thought I would be able to minimize or even completely roll off the neck pickup volume, turn up the bridge volume, and still get sound through the bridge pickup? I get signal in the middle position with the bridge pickup volume completely rolled off and the neck volume on, but not vice versa. Is this normal with Gibsons too? It's not a big deal since there is sound as long as there is a little signal coming from the bridge pot, but I wonder if this is the way it's intended to work. The electronics work as expected in the bridge and neck (Treble and rhythm) positions.
Anyway, can anyone school me on the four-knob guitar thing?
Anyway, can anyone school me on the four-knob guitar thing?
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