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I am a little curious about these electronic upgrades or rs kits.Has anyone here ordered this for their guitar and have you noticed a significant difference in the overall tone?

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I installed an RS upgrade kit in my '92 LP Studio and it definately improved the clarity and tone of this guitar.
I think the description on the RS site describes the changes bang on.
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i put the vintage upgrade kit into my epi Lp custom. significant increase in the usefulness of tone and volume pots. everything is shielded so i think its a bit quieter. not much difference in tone. change Pups for different tone and get the RS kit for better use of pots.

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$70.
Not worth it.

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I had an '83 LPS with Seth Lover pups and the RS vintage kit - sounded very good. The original speed knobs would not fit on the new shafts though.
I miss that setup. Had a Tonepros on it too. :(

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Snake oil.
Three years ago, I would have been all over that kind of stuff.

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the electrical engineer in me questions the validity of such tone improvements when audio in general is so subjective, and the RS components like resistors and capacitors are so obviously overpriced. but the musician in me is curious and someday when I have $80 to burn I may just try one out.
Its like i'm living in a god damn frosted mini-wheat commercial. I know which side I should like, but that tasty fucking frosting... grrr.

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Gutted an Ibanez AS73 put rs audio pots and rs hovland caps along with custom wound paf style PU's, highend wire, new nut and finetune tailpiece....the overall effect was outstanding interms of clarity, articulation and responsiveness compared to stock. IMHO well worth the price of parts and my cheap labor...mind you the stock guts were not something to be desired...so total $ including the orginal price of the used AS73 approx $500. And it is comparable tonewise to an axe costing at least 2-3 times as much...and will blow most stock knockoff 335s out of the water.
At times I questioned my thinking about throwing $ at a cheap guitar, but it was my first project learned alot, it was fairly easy to do, easier to sneak new parts than a new guitar past the wife and didn't have a wad of cash to begin with.

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I was thinking about getting the RS les paul kit for my Tele Deluxe (same controls as a les paul), but I've heard varying things about them. I might just get HAS sound to make me a wiring loom. :idk:

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I put their parts in my Edwards LP. I can't say 100% that they improved tone since I did a lot of other mods at the same time but they are quality parts that should last a lifetime and the controls are much more responsive than the stock parts were.

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Stock CTS and Orange drops costing a few dollars will get you to the same place, along with good routing and clean soldering. Hovland, Bumble Blahs, Snakeoil Caps? nah, Cryo? nah.

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Stock CTS and Orange drops costing a few dollars will get you to the same place, along with good routing and clean soldering. Hovland, Bumble Blahs, Snakeoil Caps? nah, Cryo? nah. +1, I swapped out the electronics in my Elitist LP since the volume knobs worked like on/off switches. Regular CTS/Orange/Switchcraft parts. Everything works much better.

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Stock CTS and Orange drops costing a few dollars will get you to the same place, along with good routing and clean soldering. Hovland, Bumble Blahs, Snakeoil Caps? nah, Cryo? nah. This is the ticket right here. You can pick up these parts much, much cheaper even at Sam Ash and GC the CTS pots are what $7.00?
RS wasn't to bad when they first came out. They more than doubled due to demand though.

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Anyone who is tired of not being able to use the controls on your guitar effectively. This is the real benefit of this kit. If your guitar has controls that are like on-off switches, crackle or just plain work badly then it would be a big improvement. Alternatively you could buy something that would work just as effectively from GFS for about $25.
Increased clarity? If you've got cheap, nasty pots and a 0.047uF cap in there, probably. Also they may well supply a vintage-style wiring schema that bleeds less upper frequencies to ground in normal use, but you can download those off the net for nothing more than 30sec in google. If you've already got decent pots and caps and the instrument is wired properly then I'd defy anyone to detect the difference in a blind test.
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