Gibson Varitone Wiring Diagram

A definite must have for any serious player or collector.

Gibson varitone wiring diagram. It really has a matter for your guitar tone. In case anyone doesnt know how a tone control works on a guitar basically there is position and a wire from the selector switch through the volume pot and then to. Suffice to say b b. Consider adding the old metal cans on the pots if you are able to for even better shielding.

Install the gibson coil under the bridge pickup by carefully removing some of the center block. The brain box of a varitone contains resistors capacitors and coils. What makes this bass special. It is a period feature.

After meeting my pg colleague joe gore at last year s musikmesse and exchanging email i realized we share a passion for guitar wiring mods. Im interested in doing a stealth version on my 335 sacrificing one of the tone pots and making the remai. On some of his es guitars gibson uses a varitone switch that allows for more tonal variations. One famous guitarist to have some of his guitars equipped with the varitone was bb king.

If you don t do all these things other than the cans you won t get the real true varitone sounds and you will have noise from poor shielding. 1964 gibson es 345 mono varitone in white 1964 es 345 olive drab green bigsby mono varitone drab. Where can i find a wiring diagram for a varitone set up. But it s definitely worth trying an es 345 or 355 with one.

You ll find the varitone on. King called the varitone the magic switch the varitone isn t for everyone that s true. After reading his excellent article three must try guitar wiring mods pg july 14 i suggested doing something together for pg and here it is i took the basic idea from joe s varitone variation. In other words it s not just a switch and caps.

I believe i remember someone here posting a very good technical explanation of what it does and how it works. 100 original in immaculate this gorgeous rare gibson v bass has been professionally inspected set up so it s ready for action upon arrival. Before the volume control or after it. The gibson varitone circuit works more like a crossover network than simply and treble bleed type tone control.

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Wiring style with the tone control connected to the wiper of the volume but oddly it. I tried to down load the 345 diagram for the support page on the gibson website but it kept giving me a file i couldnt open on my mac.