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If I replaced the legacy hb neck and middle pickups with the Bill Lawrence l-45's, would anything need to be changed inside like the wiring, obviously I would have a guitar tech do it, but I was curious if there would be any problems with pots/caps.
My next question is:
would it be possible to put the g&l MFD SC pickups in the neck and middle position in the legacy? would anything inside the guitar (pots/caps) need to be replaced?
Pots and caps rarely need to be replaced, the exception is active to passive, as active guitars tend to have 25k ohm pots, not 250 or 500.
Pots is really a preference thing, single coils, being brighter, usually have 250k ohm pots to tame that some. Darker humbuckers 500k ohm, some people like to upgrade the volume to 1 Meg ohm to get a but more drive for long chains or just brighter overall.
Wouldn't bother paying a tech for something as simple as a pickup swap, just a few joints and you are good to go.
would it be possible to put the g&l MFD SC pickups in the neck and middle position in the legacy? would anything inside the guitar (pots/caps) need to be replaced?
thanks for reading and thanks for the help!
Of course it's possible and the factory did a trio of them about two years ago, see 2010 S-500 HB Trio Special Build in the Gallery. Also, take a like at the Gallery Album: Instrument Manuals and Wiring Schematics.
You should see that the S-500 has an extra cap on the 1 Meg pot. So, show that to your tech and he/she should be able to add one if it is needed.
When you eventually get your ordered Legacy HB, I sure hope you give it some playing time to see what it's got, before doing any mods. Of course, that's just
my own opinion.
