volume and tone pots question

first off let me start off by saying that this website is a blessing to all gibson players. im only 18 and ive had a lot of people telling me to try all these cookie cutter guitars that are out nowadays but nothing will ever come close to a les paul or any other gibson for that matter. anyways heres my question. i have 2 gibson les pauls, one standard plus and one classic premium plus. now, both of them have duncan alinco II pro pickups in the bridge and neck. my standard plus was made in 99 and my classic premium plus was made in 91. my standard sounds powerful and thick but my classic sounds thin and weaker. so my question is, does my classic have different tone and volume pots than my standard ? if so can someone please tell me what volume and tone pots my standard uses so i can put the same ones in my classic ? and the gibson website forum was no help at all so any info is greatly aprecciated.
thanks
Brandon

I believe most of those had 330k pots in them. I would order some 500k CTS pots from All Parts. They will make a difference I assure you. You can take the back off your guitar pot area and remove the wires and measure the pots value with a dvm to be sure.

Good Luck,
Tim C.

I expect that most production LPs through the 1990s had 300K volumes and 500K tones. If your '99 Standard somehow happened to have 500K volumes (I have checked a '99 Classic and it had the 300Ks) that would help, but I am a bit suspicious that there may be more going on there than meets the eye.

I would suggest that you get the situation carefully inventoried, pots and pickups. In other words I'd maybe also make sure the pickups are truely comparable, try swapping them between the guitars just to make sure the differences you are getting are NOT in any way due to the pickups.

The effect of the lower value pots is to make the tone darker and maybe weaker, but as to your mention of "thin" I'm not sure about that. The generally preferred setup would be like the Historic LesPauls, with both 500K volume and tone pots.

Let us know if you find out where the problem was...