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Originally Posted by e-merlin
Please elaborate.
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I'm not sure who manufactures the pots they use in the regular production line. Some of the Custom Shop guitars have the same pots.
- The pots are cheaply made; it's not hard to damage one when you're soldering. I actually had an input lug on a volume pot fall off (the plastic melted) when I was changing out a capacitor, and I have done a
lot of soldering, so it's not like I don't know what I'm doing.
- Their use of 300K volume pots is another head-scratcher. How many Gibsons have you played in shops that have neck pickups that never make it out of the mud zone? Look no further than the control cavity. This is holdover from the cost-center Norlin era and limits the guitar's tonal range.
- Gibson seems to like using linear-taper pots for their volume controls, which is a lesser consideration that the actual quality of the pots, but they react differently than audio-taper (standard) pots, which can be a nuisance if you are one of the people that actually uses a volume control dynamically.
I'll grant that the first point is the only one that actually incriminates the pots as "poop," but the other two "choices" deserve honorable mentions. I
love Gibsons and have been primarily a Gibson player for almost 20 years, but I'm not blind to their apparent cluelessness about some critical pieces of the puzzle. If you get a guitar 90% of the way "there," why limit how much you can close the remaining 10% gap in the name of saving $2.50 or less?!