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Ibanez RC320 electronics upgrade (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/guitars

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As I said in the last post I made, I had the intention to upgrade the guts of my newly bought guitar. I switched out potentiometers and pickup selector for something that wouldn't feel as cheap, added a coil split mode through push/push pot and added a treble bleed to brighten up the tone. Everything I needed I found on Thomann.

Here's the schematics I made with DIY Layout Creator, which is a really cool piece of free software that I can only recommend if you're into this sort of stuff. You can find it on FlatHub as well.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks clean. Well done! How does she sound?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks! Well soundwise she's still under scrutiny, since the previous owner changed the original pickups for a set that's exceptionally dark and it isn't really a sound that I'm looking for (hence the treble bleed mod I installed). It got better than it was but I still have to test it a little bit.
Luckily the guy kept the original pickups, so I still have the option to swap them back in.

Edit: In any case the coil split manages to make a great difference tone wise which I didn't expect because these pickups are still from a cheaper brand