I need help

fredzeppelin

Ok i'm in serious need of some help here because when i plugged my guitar in yesterday the sound i got back nearly make me cry. I've a Epiphone Les Paul Standard, which does the job grand. Or did i should say. One of the pickups wasn't picking up sound (it was f@?/ed) so i left it in to be fixed in a well known dublin shop(I won't name it because the lads are usually sound in here). They said one of the knobs(volume or tone, not sure) needed to be changed. Anyway I got my guitar back and it sounds ****. When I put my amp on distortion and i'm still getting a clean kinda bassy sound. It's not the amp cause i checked it with another guitar.

I'd be grateful of any help people. Thanks in advance.

Voodu Child

The obvious answer is to take it back to wherever you got the work done.

Paligulus

I agree with voodoo_child.

Also, get them to check the pickup selector switch also. That's usually the first thing to go on a epiphone (Its usually just dirty). In fairness, its either that or the volume knobs as you said yourself, so I wouldn't get too worried about it.

Best of Luck

Don1

Pickup selector kept getting full of dust on mine, huge loss in volume from the bridge pickup. Long story short, a quick blow into it and a waggle of the switch temporarily fixed mine. Just long enough to realise that this was the problem. Since put a Gibson one in instead.

fredzeppelin

Thanks for the advice lads. I'll give a good blow in to, and sure if that doesn't work i'll bring it back Thanks again!

Karl Hungus

Blowing into it mightn't be all that great. If you've got some contact cleaner or alcohol around, drop a little of that into it, and then toggle it around. Usually works a charm, it'll get it perfectly clean. You can even use aftershave, it'll do the same job.

fredzeppelin

A bottle of buckfast into the toggle switch got ya. One for you, one for me, one for you. . .

Ah no i'll dab a little bit around it. Hopefully it'll do the trick, thanks for the advice.

feylya

Do not use anything but Vodka! Anything else will leave a sticky residue and crap out your electronics.

Karl Hungus

Feylya's right there... When I said alcohol, I meant pure alcohol. Vodka would do the job alright, but I'd be very wary of anything else.

fredzeppelin wrote:

One for you, one for me, one for you. . .

Couldn't help but piss my hole at this.

Played.