It has four knobs. Maybe it's broken.

I think what's confusing me is that when the rhythm/treble switch is in the middle position, both volume knobs are capable of killing the sound completely. That shouldn't be the case, right?

I've never used an SG (or a Les Paul for that matter) but that seems possible.

No, to my knowledge, they should remove only one pickup, thus giving you the ability to blend between pickup sounds. But then again, I was never a Gibson man, all my guitars have been Fender-style instruments, never owned one with four knobs like that.

Okay, yeah, that's what I thought. I'll bring it back to Best Buy and see if they can do anything. I'm way past the thirty days, though.

Or you could bring it somewhere that has a guitar tech. I don't think the employees at Best Buy are equipped to deal with guitar problems.

It's not your usual Best Buy. And if they sold me a faulty guitar, I hope they'll do something about it.

.... another small guitar timeline with a very influential tune the House of the Rising Sun going full circle to Odetta and then Muse ...... an old British folk melody many say that was taken to America by early settlers ....Take care

... and note when the Animals changed the lyrics or got them wrong with their 1964 version most followed suite after that date ... and used many a "poor boy" rather than the original and lyrically correct "poor girl"

Texas Alexander - Risin Sun - 1928

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLkuEpWsxs

16 yr old Georgia Turner (the supposed beginning of the lyrics) 1937

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15VIDcUMQQI

Woody Guthrie 1941

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXRKefR3QKQ

Leadbelly 1944

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs

Pete Seeger 1950`s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jaNcjSqYLk

Joan Baez 1960

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkyYHYUcGgo

Bob Dylan 1961

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUxnSisO89w

Nina Simone 1962

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVOyh6aO2YU

The Animals 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU3KELkd-zY

The Beatles 196?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkmsFsCpTg8

Frijid Pink 1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mj8xrrcxYQ

Dolly Parton 1981

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdqOiCvNXBQ

Sinead O`Connor 1994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDW-YQZVLw

Odetta 2005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaya8jYZBO8

Muse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtsmMCIfZzI

as an interesting aside Dylan "stole" his from Dave Van Ronk.

I guess my guitar is working the way it's supposed to. I do hear a blending of treble and rhythm when the toggle switch is in the middle position. But it's weird that both volume knobs are capable of killing the sound entirely.

So, I'm pretty pissed. I bought a Les Paul Studio for $1,300 a few years ago. When I went off to college the first time I left it at my friends house, and when I came back there was a crack right above where the neck meets the body. Obviously, none of my friends remembered it happening, but I took it to the local music shop and was told it was just a crack in the lacquer, and not repairing it wouldn't effect the overall quality of the instrument.

The last few years I've been bouncing around, but I kept the guitar at my parents house without really playing it much, so no one would f it up again. I took it to a local music shop where I live now to try and sell it for spending money while I'm abroad this semester (I don't play it much anymore). I expected the crack to take a little off the value, but apparently it wasn't just in the lacquer, and since I didn't repair it right away it worsened, and the neck pickup stopped working, and the neck isn't positioned right. The guy was nice and sympathetic, but in the end told me he'd give me $80. I said no thanks, but now I'm left with a previously gorgeous guitar that will cost a fuckton to repair, and even if/when I do sell it I'll probably only get a net gain of at most $200-$300. Fucking stoner friends.

Big time.

any suggestions to what should be heard from Govan ? or should i just sit with youtube open and expect everything to be as awesome as Waves ?

everything on his Erotic Cakes album

that guitars sleek as hell...very nice indeed....

and thanks for the rec Soda