Les Paul classic pickups suggestion. Currently muddy

markj

My experience with my les Paul I used to have, pots and cap swap before you change the pups. Gibson use shit quality items, honestly!

ellwood

Definitely do the wiring upgrades. And then +1 on OX4s. My Tokai LS50 has them and they are fantastic

Fortheloveofguitar

I've already swapped pots and caps so I'll try the 50's wiring next and then the aluminium tail piece 

Lestratcaster

FelineGuitars said:

Before throwing money at buying pickups I would check/swap

Pots to 500k if they have 300k ones in there
Tone control to 50s wiring

Also I can recommend
Fit earvana nut - guitar will get more zingy as well as being much more in tune.

swap zinc tailpiece to aluminium one

The ceramic p/ups on the Classic should be pretty bright so I would look to these other things first , otherwise you may find that new pickups also lack top end sparkle too.

Afyer that you can experiment with pickup choices.

I had this done to my les Paul studio back in 2013. It did make a difference. 

I still put a Bareknuckle in the bridge though, eventually swapped it out for a different one (still a bkp) and had the tone pot disconnected. Plays like a dream now.

jdbwales

Try the Blues Engine neck in the bridge - low output alnico 4 should sort you right out 

Fortheloveofguitar

Ok guys I've swapped the wiring to 50's as recommended and it's made a huge difference

Also sounds so much better when rolling the volume back as retaining the treble. Sounds so good I may swap my other les Paul's to 50's wiring too 

Now that it's removed the 'blanket' so to speak I can really hear the pickups better and now il thinking I will swap those too

ICBM

It's probably worth mentioning again for the sake of avoiding confusion, for those people who don't use the controls - 50s wiring makes no difference to the tone when the volume control is on 10, only when you roll it down.