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The following is a list of mods that you can use to customize you Les Paul style guitar to <i>your</i> way of playing. You can perform these mods yourself, or if it makes you nervous, we can do them for you!<p> <p>
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<b>Phase Reverse:</b> </font>
<font face="arial" color="white" size="2">Here's a popular mod on many Les Pauls- add a push/pull pot (knob) to put the two pickups out of phase with each other when both pickups are selected. Now you will have four P/U combinations on your LP: Neck, Bridge, Both IN phase and Both OUT of phase.<br>
The out of phase sound is much thinner than the normal humbucker sound, almost Strat-like. Kinda funky!<br>
There is the <i>possibility</i> of added noise when Out of Phase is selected, depending on your pickups<br>
This pot replacement is easily undone, but may affect the value of vintage instruments, even after being reversed.
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<b>Coil Splitting:</b> </font>
<font face="arial" color="white" size="2">Another cool mod using a push/pull pot. The idea is that basically, your humbucker pickup is two <i>single coil</i> pickups wired together. By adding a p/p pot, you can <i>split</i> these two coils, thereby achieving a single coil (Strat-like) sound.<br>
Talk about versatile!</font>
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