Making a guitar darker?

Noisy Cat · Post by **Noisy Cat** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:00 pm

Turn the treble down on your amp.

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:34 pm

It's a heavily modded Vintage VS6. I have no idea what the current pot value is but 500k seems pretty likely. I'm gonna look into replacing it with a 250k pot. Cheers guys!

Noisy Cat, yeah I've done that, surprisingly. The sound still isn't exactly as I want it, hence why I'm trying to figure out an alternative.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:15 pm

Buy some middle priced low output pickup like GFS, put it in the bridge and throw your neck pickup away(it'll change nothing but any guitar with empty pickup slot looks kickass). Or do it vice versa, put new pickup in the neck and throw away the bridge pickup, it'll give warmer tone.

Ice-picking pickups are common problem for majority of budget guitars. Cheap ceramic magnets(usually) and hot winding are the reasons. Throwing away your pot just increased the whole effect. My Squier Bullet Strat is ice-picking as hell, though I play it mostly unplugged

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:05 pm

The pickups aren't stock, and I was always happy with the sound prior to these mods.

I probably just shouldn't have done any further modding, but I had the itch.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:43 pm

Freddy V-C wrote:I was always happy with the sound prior to these mods.

I probably just shouldn't have done any further modding

Reverse the mods - simples.

superfuzz · Post by **superfuzz** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:32 am

Black paint

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:29 pm

NickS wrote:
Freddy V-C wrote:I was always happy with the sound prior to these mods.

I probably just shouldn't have done any further modding
Reverse the mods - simples.

I prefer the look and feel of it now though, haha. Also, replacing the pot is probably gonna be less effort than reversing the mods!

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:54 pm

ekwatts wrote:
theshadowofseattle wrote:
ekwatts wrote:Electro Harmonix Mole bass boost makes all my guitars sound like they're emitting variations on the brown note. No wonder they're so cheap.
Yo that is the worst pedal I've ever experienced. Within 5 minutes, I had relisted it on ebay.
It's interestingly bad. I've actually found a use for it here and there but it's surprising that it ever got made and sold.

lol @ both