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gingerguitarist

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  1. In what way? I guess you could do something with the pickups, unless they are just 2-wire pickups (hot and ground). If they are 3-wire or 4-wire pickups then you could do some coil splitting, ie. knock one or both humbuckers into single coils with the aid of additional DPDT switches. If you aren't sure what is available, hence your post on this forum, then I suggest you do some reading here. Look into series/parallel wiring, out of phase, trying different capacitors etc. Or spend some money and change out the stock pickups entirely for something different. No guarantees that you will get what you want. But you have to first know what you want . sorry mate. i play a bit of everything from led zep metallica the beatles nirvana arctic monkeys. ive recently been playing a lot of different guitars. a gibson les paul custom, fender stratocaster the richie sambora model(i think), fender telecaster custom, a japanese squier strat 1984. going back to my very basic les paul special 2 i felt the difference everything about them was astronomical. way they handled overdrive/distortion particularly. i know my epiphone will never match the fender or the gibsons but i would just like to improve it as i really love it. i consulted my mate and he recommended changing the pickups. i think i am going to go for seymour duncan hot rodded humbuckers or gibson 57' classic humbuckers. have you any experiance in any of these two sets of pick ups? or do you have a different set of pick ups you recommend? he also recommended replacing tone pots volume pots capacitator toggle switch and fit locking tuners. any advice on anything i have mentioned would really be appreciated. thanks.
  2. hi guys. this is my first post so if i do anything wrong or am posting in the wrong section please correct me. my first electric guitar was an epiphone les paul special 2 which i am very sentimental about. these days i find myself playing it less and less which saddens me. so i plan to modify it to maximise its abilitys. im just a plug in and play guy so i dont know where to start. everything about the guitar is still as it was when i bought it new, with the obvious exception being the strings. i am willing to spend whatever it takes to get a serious improvment from it. any advice would be seriously appreciated. thanks
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