50's Wiring vs Modern Wiring 

Thanks for sharing! Super insightful

Beautiful playing!

I have an inspired by Gibson, Epiphone Les Paul. 50’s edition with 50’s wiring .Gold top of course!) I love the sounds I can get. I have four other double humbucker guitars and I can say 50’s wiring can get you better tones and more sounds.

Thanks for the video. This was very helpful! This is exactly what I want to do and I appreciate the wiring diagram! All the best!

That Tele you built, sounds fantastic.

Great demonstration! I’m going to give 50s wiring a shot in my Zach Meyers.

A good representation of the difference in tone. I've always liked the vintage style of wiring, but listening to your recording, I somehow notice that the modern way of wiring, although it reduces the high tones, has more space for coloring the tone, has more mid tones, somehow it's typical for HB PU, that's why they are HB , fatter, fuller tone. I will certainly transfer to modern - it will be the first time I do so.

Thanks for doing this comparison.

I don't get that warm sustain out of my strats thanks for posting

Saludos desde Argentina en español. Seguro Ustedes pueden traducirlo 👍Ok me resultó my útil éste tutorial: poseo una Telecaster American Vintage 52 del año 2000. Mi primera duda era si la posición del medio era solo la pastilla del neck y la confirmé al estar el Bridge mudo. Mi segunda duda era si el control de tono no era en realidad un control de mezcla. Está ahora claro que es un Tone control que afecta al volumen en la posición Bridge. En mi guitarra baja casi totalmente el volumen de la pastilla del Bridge. Ahora entiendo la función sutil de control de volumen con el control de tono entre 5- 7 y 5 - 3. Excelente video muy útil y orientado a la creatividad de las Telecaster's con circuito antiguos 👍🎸

50's all the way. Thanks for the comparison.

"I always say taking about music is like farting about painting" -pickles the drummer

As I don’t play metal I do not care for the dark or muddy sound, but video makes me wonder what do you think of the idea of wiring the neck pickup in 50s style and the bridge pickup in modern style? Thank you.

On full volume I like the modern wiring...i noticed when i switched from modern to fiftees on full volume the modern had more mids and thickness.

I'm a little confused about the difference in the placement of the capacitors in this video & another 1 of your videos thar I just watched about dependent vs. Independent wiring schemes. In that video the placement of the caps was #2 lug on the tone->ground on the tone pot. In all of the wiring schemes that I've been able to find about the 50's & the modern wiring schemes will have the caps placed either on the #1/#2 lugs on the volume pot connected to the #1/#2 lugs on the tone pots. I guess that's my question & I may have gotten the #'s of the lugs incorrect, I'm not sure exactly, that's a huge difference to me having the caps only connected to the tone pot lug->to ground on that tone pot vs. Having the caps connected to the volume pots as well as the tone pots. Can you please explain the differences to me about that particular topic please?

A little late to the party but, can you tell me if the 50's wiring can be done on a Strat... where there is two tone controls, but only one volume?????

Is this scenario normal for 50's wiring? Knob settings: volume on 10 and tone rolled completely off (that dark tone you don't care for). Soon as I roll the volume back , somewhere between 8 & 9, some of the highs "re-appear" in the sound.

Be nice to know what you are playing?

Vitamin D

This is really not a fair comparison. You need to demonstrate both wiring types using similar guitars. A Tele wired in this fashion is nothing like a Les Paul or 335 wired in the 50's scheme.

50's sounds much more useful

too ... much ... talking. this should be 4 min video with comparisons and leave the diagrams up!