Firefly FF338 Pro Lucille 2023 quick tech specs:
Just that, it's typical, it should have a bound headstock, the mono Varitone is just a stepped tone control.
It shouldn't be difficult to rewire however you like, if you are deeply bound by budget you could probably swap the audio taper tone pots into the volume positions and rewire the whole thing as a '50s tone wiring to get you more natural treble And however much sensitivity and detail the shoemaker pickups could provide.
You will need to work on the very tone however if you want it to be an actual very tone. there are stereo Varitone harnesses on eBone, I think likely to be well worth it, they will take weeks to arrive at your continental United States location. I cannot say if the PCB will physically fit but there has to be some way to get it to fit. and the greatest benefit of it being us through hole PCB if you can change the capacitor values.
I think I'm going to do another video promoting Epiphone pickups, if you buy them from a seller that has pulled them out of a guitar he owns you will be assured that you won't receive a set of counterfeit Epiphone pickups though I really don't believe the ones that are available on Ali and ebone from Asia are actually counterfeits. check the date codes and get post 2013 pickups.
The push pull Epiphone harnesses use linear pots as volume controls but also have trouble bleeds hardwired in. I am not at all a big fan of modern town control wiring which is the other circumstance that you will encounter, on the harnesses that have push pulls on the volume controls only It's actually not difficult to rewire them for 50s you will need to trace your existing circuit out and be careful. you can also fairly easily remove the trouble bleeds they are surface mount so if you're going to absolutely a hundred percent own the hardness with no intention of reselling going 50s and knocking the surface mount probably components off the board is easy enough to do.
The three push pull pot harness with phase reverse is a little bit trickier but still possible.
The incredible benefit of having access to the Lucille harness from the back of the guitar is that the large CTS push pull pots are a super easy in. The tapers are not always that great but biy from a place like Art of Tone or Mojotone and make sure to inquire about those tapers before you pull the trigger.
I am the greatest advocate of these Epiphone pickups for Firefly swaps, they are built like Toyotas, you can swap magnets for some variation in tone and output And if you keep yourself under $75 is set you're doing great. Toneriders too, but I've rarely seen them come up for sale used and their price point new is a definite notch above $50 to $75 a set.
Whatever you do resist side grades like the so-called cheapest alnico humbuckers on Amazon and brands like Fleor, those video reviewers are working Amazon affiliate link income. They are absolutely 100% not interested in what your guitar sounds like. All of those pickups and similar pickups are sidegrades or downgrades, including most stuff sold by GFS. Post-2013 Epiphones are very solid upgrades and probably the best replacement pick up bargains going, stick to US sellers who have pulled the pickups out of their own guitars.
7 фев 2024
