Gibson Circuit Board Pickups

In addition they use a cheap 0 01 ceramic disk cap of 0 022 mfd value.

Gibson circuit board pickups.

Shipped with usps priority mail. The pcb wired guitars are inferior to hand wired not because of the printed circuit board but because gibson chooses to use 260k pots for the volume and 460k pots for tone. In this video i review a set of bill lawrence designed circuit board pickups gibson used to make from late 1988 early 1990 called the original hb r n. The hb circuit board pickups are my favorite gibsons along with the burstbucker pros.

Gibson can then have less skilled people assemble them. It also allows gibson to get more creative with wiring schemes without having rf issues and the complexity of all that extra wiring. Hi have you compared the two do they sound similar struggling to find a good condition hb l so was thinking to go burstbucker pro. This is a circuit board wiring harness from a 2018 gibson sg standard.

Some of the vendors on mylespaul do these kits just as nicely for half the price and this is with premium cts 550k pots with vintage taper pio caps etc. Changing pickups with gibson circuit board that is a nice upgrade kit the rs one but for what it is it is way overpriced. Gibson sg pcb circuit board wiring harness 2018. I changed the pickups in the guitar and while doing that i also changed out the wiring pots switch and jack.

A side effect is if you so happen to have a bunch of pickups with the proper connectors it would make for quick swaps.