Yes, you can do it, and yes it will do what you want.
The issue is that it's a PITA pulling thin wire off of a waxed coil. You will be best served by melting off as much wax as possible first...which you should then replace...and at that point, why not just buy a weaker pickup instead? In today's day and age, there is a wide variety of aftermarket P-90s.
Additionally, it isn't something I would do to an ES-330. They are desirable, somewhat rare, and pricey guitars, that should have components replaced and set aside for future restoration, rather than irreversibly modified from stock.
You are better off:
1) Learning to play and adjust around the "issue," and to actually use it to your advantage. This is what practically every great player known for using a 330 has done.
2) Running your bridge pickup's tone control down to the point at which the same treble and midrange settings on the amp sound good for both pickups. As another way of stating this: Set up your amp for the neck pickup...which will leave your bridge pickup sounding very bright...which you tame using the guitar's onboard tone control for the bridge pickup.
3) Putting the stock pickups aside, and install a modern-style calibrated set.
4) Pulling the stock tone circuit, and designing a tone circuit that gets that pickup sounding like you want it to sound. The right pot and cap values, the right taper on the pots to give them the response you want, the right selective bass cut element in line with the pickup. Or, even something as simple as pulling your stock treble-cut tone control, and installing a passive bass cut control instead, on the neck pickup.
The issue is that it's a PITA pulling thin wire off of a waxed coil. You will be best served by melting off as much wax as possible first...which you should then replace...and at that point, why not just buy a weaker pickup instead? In today's day and age, there is a wide variety of aftermarket P-90s.
Additionally, it isn't something I would do to an ES-330. They are desirable, somewhat rare, and pricey guitars, that should have components replaced and set aside for future restoration, rather than irreversibly modified from stock.
You are better off:
1) Learning to play and adjust around the "issue," and to actually use it to your advantage. This is what practically every great player known for using a 330 has done.
2) Running your bridge pickup's tone control down to the point at which the same treble and midrange settings on the amp sound good for both pickups. As another way of stating this: Set up your amp for the neck pickup...which will leave your bridge pickup sounding very bright...which you tame using the guitar's onboard tone control for the bridge pickup.
3) Putting the stock pickups aside, and install a modern-style calibrated set.
4) Pulling the stock tone circuit, and designing a tone circuit that gets that pickup sounding like you want it to sound. The right pot and cap values, the right taper on the pots to give them the response you want, the right selective bass cut element in line with the pickup. Or, even something as simple as pulling your stock treble-cut tone control, and installing a passive bass cut control instead, on the neck pickup.
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