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Emerson Custom Prewired Kit for Gibson Les Paul Guitars - Long Shaft

Prewired Kit with 4 Emerson Custom Long-shaft CTS 500k Pots, Output Jack, and Emerson Bumblebee Capacitor
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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 other guitars. This kit's premium components include precision-made potentiometers, Emerson Custom Bumblebee Paper in Oil Capacitors, and a Switchcraft input jack. They have been prewired and soldered so you can drop them in your guitar with minimal work.

Emerson Custom uses a unique '50s-style wiring with this kit to give you optimized tone. The result is a stronger and tighter tone, 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 amp: when you roll back the volume, the tone changes a little bit, and vice versa. Every Emerson Custom pot is hand-metered in-house and falls within +/- 8% tolerance, and their 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 other guitars.

Emerson Custom Prewired Kit for Gibson Les Paul Features:
  • Prewired kit with pots, capacitors, and output jack
  • 500Kohm pots with smooth audio taper across its whole range
  • Premium Emerson Bumblebee Paper in Oil Capacitors (0.022uf bridge and 0.015uf neck)
  • Quality components will last a long time
Upgrade the sound of your guitar with the Emerson Custom Prewired Kit for Gibson Les Paul and other guitars!

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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

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Rated 5/5

Amazing quality that you can feel and hear!

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!
Music background: Professional guitar teacher, tribute Bands, Solo
Rated 5/5

Brought my Les Paul to life

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.
Rated 5/5

emerson prewired kit

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!
Music background: I have been playing guitar since 1952 and I love it!
Rated 5/5

High Quality Upgrade

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!
Rated 5/5

Really good

Just installed in a '91 Les Paul where I had already replaced the 300/500k pots with 550k/5% CTS and Russian PIO. The pots were terrible - functional from 7-10 and like an on off switch. I had hoped for 525k 5 or 10% pots, but these are advertised as custom and 7%/500k. Bottom line: smooth, linear volume and tone and the sound is articulate and clear with Burstbucker 1&2.
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