I know people usually bitch about the ol V7/V8 combo sucking ass and replace them straight away. I've got this old RG570 that I reworked the electronics a year or so ago. I had it going from the jack to a kill switch to a single 500k German MEC volume pot and a Schaller (also MEC) three way blade. I had swapped the magnets on the pickups around so the bridge is ceramic and the neck is alnico v. I swapped before changing the wiring. Now I'm thinking about selling this guitar so I put back the stock electronics and holy shit does it sound so much worse. I changed amps around the time I changed electronics so I attributed the better sound to the new amp. I had the gain at around 10 o'clock and got a nice tight chug sound. Since I put it back to stock I've had to bump up the gain to like 3 o'clock because the pickups feel so much weaker. Like wtf? Why would they use this system?