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Originally Posted by eddie_bowers
It's hard to get a good compromise in this situation, but I ended up putting a higher value tone cap in my strat and then creating a no-load tone pot for my LP as well as going with a higher value (1 meg) volume pot. This helped them meet in the middle a bit.
A better cap will help with the sound when it's rolled off, but wont make enough difference in the sound on 10 to help your situation much.
Then there is always a stompbox EQ that you could use when your playing the Les Paul (what I did for a while).
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I think I may end up just swapping out caps for BOTH guitars eventually. I'd say the Strat actually could probably use it more than the Les Paul, because it's still pretty bright even with the tone rolled back some. A tube swap is also pretty imminent as well. The RFT rocks, and is especially useful when playing my Strat. It gives it a more meaty sound, which I guess was really just my attempt to get more of a Les Paul tone with my Strat! Now that I HAVE a Les Paul, no need for that! It's plenty meaty enough.
Anybody have any suggestions on which caps I should try for the Les Paul?? Like I said before, I'm thinkin' .015 for the neck and .022 or so for the bridge, but I don't really know which brands would be the best price/performance ratio. Any suggestions for a good V1 tube are appreciated as well. If I were just playing Strat I'd just keep the RFT in there, but since I'm playing my Les Paul most of the time now I'd really rather have something with a little less drive initially that's not quite as dark as the RFT. Thanks again!