Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
The phase switch on 70's Guilds is an incredibly powerful tool, and because of the pickups fighting each other, canceling each other out, you can get an endless variety of tones as simply as rolling the neck pickup volume back a little, it's night and day. You can do the opposite by rolling the bridge pickup back, the tonal palette is staggering. It's far from a one trick pony if you experiment.
In the history of Les Pauls, there were a couple legendary guitars for having out of phase middle position, Peter Green's Les Paul with a flipped neck pickup magnet that ended up being Gary Moore's, and Page of course, who had the ability to reverse his pickups and split his coils, but yet somehow Gibson never really gave it out to the public, to this day, it's "Jimmy Page" wiring, as if it was proprietary, but Guild did.
These honky tones work really well with over the top overdrive and endless sustain. You're playing all four coils at the same time, like a huge pickup, with all of these tonal quirks on tap.
The in phase position has more might but is kind of a wooly drag without any of the cool artifacts of being out of phase. The interplay between the knobs doesn't exist.
All the same, switching back and forth makes for good contrast.
Coil taps are ok, but only diminish tone, not augment.
The phase switch is a mighty sonic weapon, it's not just some silly phase I'm going through.
In the history of Les Pauls, there were a couple legendary guitars for having out of phase middle position, Peter Green's Les Paul with a flipped neck pickup magnet that ended up being Gary Moore's, and Page of course, who had the ability to reverse his pickups and split his coils, but yet somehow Gibson never really gave it out to the public, to this day, it's "Jimmy Page" wiring, as if it was proprietary, but Guild did.
These honky tones work really well with over the top overdrive and endless sustain. You're playing all four coils at the same time, like a huge pickup, with all of these tonal quirks on tap.
The in phase position has more might but is kind of a wooly drag without any of the cool artifacts of being out of phase. The interplay between the knobs doesn't exist.
All the same, switching back and forth makes for good contrast.
Coil taps are ok, but only diminish tone, not augment.
The phase switch is a mighty sonic weapon, it's not just some silly phase I'm going through.
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