Twin humbucker guitar, only 3 controls (like an Gibson Explorer).
Trouble with a muddy sounding neck humbucker.
Explorer style wiring has the single tone pot after the 3 way toggle switch.
Any downside to wiring the Bridge Humbucker to the single tone pot like a Les Paul (tone pot connected tot he center lug on the bridge humbucker volume pot) and wiring the neck humbucker directly to the switch.
I can't see a need to every cut the treble this heck humbucker and having no tone pot will make the neck slightly brighter.
Surely the pickup loading will be different in an Explorer as the single tone pot will load down both volume pots.
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I'm tempted to take one of my LPs and wire it for Vol / Vol / Treble / Bass. One of these days...
I would connect the tone to the pickup terminal not the middle (ie modern wiring) on the bridge volume control, which will also make the neck pickup brighter in the middle position when the bridge volume is turned down a bit.
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I did that mod on a Vintage brand LP. I used the diagram on page 313 of the Complete Guitar Wiring by Gerry Hayes.
I used a 500K pot first time and then went with a 1M pot. You can hear the difference if full off or full on, I doesn't sound like much if you try and roll it down. If you have some heavy fuzz, it can help to clarify things.
GandL do the "correct" pot, but never seem to have it in stock and I am not sure how much difference it would make.
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I need to draw these ideas up and look at the wiring runs.