Emerson Custom Prewired Kit for Gibson Les Paul - Long Shaft

Prewired Kit with 4 Emerson Pro Long-shaft 500K Pots, Output Jack, and Emerson Bumblebee Capacitor

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Emerson Custom Prewired Kit for Gibson Les Paul - Long Shaft

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Q: What is the Emerson Custom Prewired Kit for Les Paul - Long Shaft?

This kit is a complete, pre-assembled wiring harness designed to upgrade the electronics in your Gibson Les Paul. It replaces your guitar's existing pots, capacitors, and output jack with high-quality Emerson Custom components, known for their superior tone and reliability. It's a passive system, meaning it doesn't require a battery, and is ready for you to solder in your pickups.

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Q: Why does this kit specify "Long Shaft" potentiometers?

The "Long Shaft" designation refers to the length of the potentiometer's threaded bushing. Many Gibson Les Paul models, especially those made after the mid-1970s or with carved tops, require long shaft pots to properly extend through the thicker body wood. This ensures a secure fit and correct knob height, providing optimal performance and feel.

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Q: What kind of sonic improvements can I expect from this kit?

Upgrading to Emerson Custom electronics can significantly enhance your Les Paul's tone. This kit features unique '50s-style wiring, which provides a stronger and tighter tone, a smoother-feeling Volume pot with less treble loss when rolling down the volume, and interactive Volume and Tone controls. You'll experience increased clarity, better dynamic response, and a more usable taper across your controls, allowing more of your guitar's natural voice to shine through.

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Q: Is this kit difficult to install, and what tools will I need?

Installing this prewired kit requires basic soldering skills and tools like a soldering iron, solder, wire cutters, and a screwdriver. While the harness is pre-assembled, you'll need to solder your pickups and output jack connections. If you're not comfortable with soldering, a Sweetwater Sales Engineer can offer advice, or you might consider professional installation.

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Prewired Control Kit for Gibson Les Paul Guitars

Upgrade your guitar's control system with the Emerson Custom Prewired Kit for Gibson Les Paul and similar guitars. This kit's premium components include precision-made potentiometers, Emerson Custom Bumblebee Paper in Oil Capacitors, and a Switchcraft output jack. They have been prewired and soldered, so you can drop them in your guitar with minimal work. Emerson Custom uses unique ’50s-style wiring with this kit to give you optimized tone. The result is a stronger and tighter tone, a smoother-feeling Volume pot with less treble loss when rolling the volume down, and interactive Volume and Tone controls. The Tone and Volume controls interact like a vintage amplifier: when you roll back the volume, the tone changes a little bit, and vice versa. Every Emerson Pro pot is hand-metered in-house and falls within ±8% tolerance, and the capacitors are the only new MIL-Spec capacitors in production in the US. Guitarists at Sweetwater know that every component in your guitar affects your sound — improve tone and control feel with the Emerson Custom Prewired Kit for Gibson Les Paul and similar guitars.

Emerson Custom Prewired Kit Features:

Prewired kit with pots, capacitors, and output jack
Emerson Pro 500K pots with smooth audio taper across their whole range
Premium Emerson Bumblebee Paper in Oil Capacitors (0.022uf bridge and 0.015uf neck)
Quality components will last a long time
Handcrafted at the Emerson Custom shop in Broken Arrow, OK

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Tech Specs

Type: Wiring Harness Kit
Instrument: Les Paul
Active/Passive: Passive
Features: Long Shaft
Manufacturer Part Number: LP-BB-LONG-PREMIER

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Knowing Emerson cares about the tolerance and functionality of their pots, switches, etc. and I am always impressed. Upgraded the wiring in my Heritage H150 and though the originals were great, you can tell a difference in clarity and 0-10 settings are all actually useful! If you want to hear your pickups the way they are intended, give them proper electronics from Emerson!

Put this kit in a 2019 Gibson studio w a Seymour Duncan and it's the best sounding thing ever. Raw, punchy, and clear! High quality stuff! Buying another to put in my gibson 2023 60s standard that has push pull that I never use!

I put this wiring harness in my '03 Epiphone Les Paul Elite and that guitar has never sounded so glorious. It sounded pretty good with some Seth Lover pickups, but the wiring harness upgrade has given it much more sparkle in the higher frequencies. The full range of my volume and tone knobs are now usable without sacrificing clarity. It really unlocked the full potential of that instrument.

I like how this kit brought my '86 LP Custom to life! It is tight and not mushy! I give it an A-1 rating! I also like my new Orange Terror Stamp!

I used this kit in my beloved Epiphone LP100 to give it some new life. It all started when the original toggle switch went out some years back, and I replaced it with the Emerson Custom pre-wired toggle since it was made here in the states out of high quality material, and was put together nicely. That was done out of necessity.

Fast forward a few years, and I decided I wanted to upgrade all the rest of the electronics. Pickups aside, I wanted to stay consistent, so I stuck with EC since I used them for the toggle switch and was very satisfied with it. I was originally going to buy all the pots and caps separately and wire it up myself, but quickly decided to buy the kit when I found out about it and saw how much nicer the soldering was definitely going to be!

When all was said and done, I knew I made the right choice as soon as I gave it the first test run! I knew the guitar would sound different with the new pickups, but I was pretty blown away by the results in tandem with this kit. The pots are silky smooth, and I love the response and taper from the tone knobs! It'll stay close to a certain brighter range until you get it a little below 4/10, then drops off fast. It's nice because it's not too bright when it's maxed, and there's a lot of room to play with on the bright range, and it's very clear when you reach that "dirt," and easy to achieve when needed. It's also the first time I've ever had a guitar where I liked how either pickup sounded when the tone knob is zeroed out! It really reminds me of that fuzzy/dirty tone you can hear in music from the 50s or 60s! I definitely didn't like how that setting sounded with the original electronics, and both new pickups have a different manufacturer, so this sound is definitely being achieved through the kit.

This shows how important high quality electronics are to your tone, and Emerson Custom is a great company to trust for your guitar guts! This kit is what really got me into them, and I've been trusting them for years now and never had an issue with anything I've purchased from them! Some people don't like the way their tone knobs have that steep drop-off to dirty, but it's pretty convenient for my tastes. And even when you don't change pickups, upgrading to EC parts or kits can make a notable difference to a guitar's tone, and will really bring out the full capabilities of any pickups they're wired to!

If you have an old LP sitting around that needs a little love, I strongly recommend this upgrade! You might have a hard time putting it back down afterwards!