The Dark Lord Gigs

[Luke Duke]

Everyone loved the look of the black burst with chrome hardware and pup covers (especially the single coil..wow). It's a very sharp looking visual. My drummer told me he thought it sounded great, even better than my 25th (which has been THE gigging solidbody since last August). He said it sounded big and smooth. That said I felt like I was monkeying around with the tone knob ALL night long. I was wondering if anyone else had this issue? I half wondered if it's me getting used to the poplar/maple body combo? I also noticed on the specs that it has 250k pots and figure that might be part of me not finding a happy medium very easily.

I wonder if I'm getting some signal degradation from my board and since my amp I used is low gain and only has a tone knob for EQ that it is causing me to have "dialing in" issues. I haven't gigged the Dark Lord with my modded 2204 but I don't think I'd have that problem...maybe because I have a presence knob?

Anyhow....GREAT looks, great sound!

Luke

 

[Gio_Force_One]

I love my dark lord but I have two other morses with 500k pots and to me they sound so much better . So the dark lord will be getting a 500 k push pull knob just like my sunset purple one.
To my ears there is a world of difeferenxe between the 250 and 500 the 500 sound more open to me. Give it a try you might like it.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I swapped out 250k pots for 500k ones on another guitar I have. The difference is subtle, but it did make a difference.

 

[joe web]

i unsoldered my tone pot on the dark lord (newer used it) - the guitar sounds better now for my taste.

 

[Luke Duke]

Hmmm....seems most of you prefer a little more cut than it has stock. I'm teetering on it myself.

 

[guitarp77]

It is awesome, sounds great and looks so sexy its unbelievable!

 

[DrKev]

I think there is always an adjustment period with every new guitar. I'd give it plenty of time before modding the wiring. With a new guitar tone involved, we may have to re-approach not only our amp EQ but possibly our effects/pedal settings too. "One size fits all" does not apply where guitars are concerned. Trying to recapture certain qualities of our tone with changing guitars is a bit like wanting your marinara sauce to taste the same when using oregano instead of basil.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

This is why I buy guitars that are mostly all the same!