I purchased my charcoal flame maple 594 10 Top the day before yesterday. I first played one last Friday. I have been reading a lot about the guitar before going to try it out, and I was just floored when I played it the first time. It immediately became a massive obsession of mine. I literally cannot think of anything else. Then comes Monday, I can no longer resist the urge, so I went to guitar center and I bought it.
I am still in over-the-top love with the guitar. For the last two days, I have literally played it nonstop anywhere from 4 to 6 hours straight. It's amazing, I can't describe the euphoria that comes with playing such an amazing instrument. I own a lot of really great guitars, I have several Tom Anderson's, Gibsons, Fenders, Taylor, Hamer, and all of them have taken an immediate backseat to this Guitar. Actually they're not in the backseat, they're in the trunk.
I do have one little question though, I'm not so sure maybe if I've got some wiring issues with mine or not, but I wanted to get some feedback from some of you guys that own the 594.
When I toggle the pickup selector to the middle pickup position, which should be an equal balance of the neck pickup on the bridge pickup obviously, the volume controls do not work independently of each other, as they do with traditional Gibson 4-knob controls. If I turn the bridge volume all the way down, but leave the base pick up volume all the way up, the volume completely goes off on the guitar. I simply can't adjust the pickup volume's individually. Let's say I'd like to have the bridge pickup volume at five, with the neck pickup volume at 10, it won't do it. It will take the overall volume to 5. I can imagine they do this on purpose, I'm convinced my guitar just has a wiring issue. Shouldn't I be able to blend the volumes of the neck pickup in the bridge pickup however I want?
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