Ibanez PM-120 Potentiometer values?!?

I'm trying to solve a problem of my PM-120 being very dark sounding.
This doesn't make sense to me on a guitar with so much maple and an ebony fingerboard. By contrast, the Gibson 175, which is very similar in construction except with a rosewood fingerboard is much brighter. I don't think it's the pickups because I've had the same pickups on an
AS200 and they were very bright and articulate.

In an interview, Metheny mentioned that he enjoys the PM-120 because he can get his usual dark tone without turning down the tone control.
I'm wondering if Ibanez put 250k pots in there?

Yesterday, I used a dental mirror and looked inside the guitar and all the pots are wrapped in some kind of foil shielding so unless someone knows, I'll just have to take them out and measure them...

It'd be more versatile if you could get that dark sound by rolling the tone controls off. That way, you could have a brighter sound if you want it--and the dark PM sound when you want that, too. As it is now, you don't have the option of getting a brighter sound.

The PM-120 is a great instrument, and it'd be very interesting to hear what it sounds like with a fuller tone range.

This morning I played the guitar for a couple hours. It is definitely brighter. Apparently, the completely enclosed foil around all the pots was acting like a capacitor and bleeding off high frequencies to ground. The guitar sounds incredible. SO MUCH BETTER. I'd advise anyone with an Ibanez guitar to check to see if their pots are enclosed in foil and if they are, remove the foil. I can get the original guitar's tone by turning the tone control down to about 7 but with the tone control up, the guitar has the Zing of a nice 335 but with more hollow quality. The middle pickup position is now twangy with the tone up which sounds great for any kind of travis-picking and the bridge pickup gets a very carlton-esque tone with my Fulldrive.

Thanks Richard - For your patience and for everything else!

I'm happy I didn't have to do any major mods to it. It was hell getting the tone control back in... I'm still going to disconnect the treble volume control and make the other vol a master...