Changing pickups in an electric - question...

Guitarhero27
Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
edited July 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
Alright....I've got a beautiful looking guitar, les paul style. It's a company called Xavier that produces those shelltop guitars similiar to what Zemaitis produced.

Now obviously the stock pickups aren't the best...and would changing the pups to gibson classic 57's really change the sound...or is there more to it, like the pots and if there are other electronics I should know about?

Any tips would be helpful!

Thanks guys

-Seth
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    you can just change the pickups only. but if the wiring components are of lower quality, replacing everything can be beneficial and it isn't that much more expensive to do everything after you've invested in good pickups as well.

    however, just the good pickups can make a dramatic difference depending on the quality of what's in there now.
  • Guitarhero27
    Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    cool thanks....that's what i thought...but i have no idea if the wiring is of lower quality. I would guess so...how/where would I go about changing all of the wiring? I'm sure the tech's i bring it to would know, but hey, I wanna sound like i know what I'm doing first :)

    thanks

    -seth
    9/29/96, 8/29/98, 9/8,11/98, 7/28/99, 8/23,24,25/00, 10/13/00, 4/15/03, 4/30/03, 7/8,9,12,14/03, 10/1/04, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 5/4,5,13,27,28/06, 6/1,3/06, 6/19,20,22,24,25,27/08, 7/1/08, 8/4,5,7,16/08, 8/21/09, 10/27,28,30,31/09, 5/15,17,18,20,21/10, 9/2/12, 10/18,19,21,22,25/13
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    this site has some FAQs etc. to get you started.

    http://guitarelectronics.com/category/wiringresources.1basicwiringfaqs/
  • Kevin Wilson
    Kevin Wilson Posts: 333
    Guitarhero27 wrote:
    cool thanks....that's what i thought...but i have no idea if the wiring is of lower quality. I would guess so...how/where would I go about changing all of the wiring? I'm sure the tech's i bring it to would know, but hey, I wanna sound like i know what I'm doing first :)

    thanks

    -seth
    open the guitar and draw a diagram so when you replace the wires you have a nice picture. Hey I've been doin some reading on lindy fralin pick ups and recently bought some for my strat and i love them i also have an sg and was looking into their zebra humbuckers. I've heard really good thing about them. One guy on harmony central replaced his les paul stocks with them and said they blow the lp pick ups away. Just a thought
    Makes much more sense.................
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