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Oh yea....... :doh:DocNrock said:
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"I told you sombitchez to sit down on the fretboard and be quiet, Damnit".... :laughing11:DocNrock said:
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I can pretend I have the control to sound great using a pup that really amplifies every single noise I make. But it just isn't true, I don't have that kind of technique. And that is okay with me!
SuperShredder will never be my username, and I will just accept that now.
I can pretend I have the control to sound great using a pup that really amplifies every single noise I make. But it just isn't true, I don't have that kind of technique. And that is okay with me!
SuperShredder will never be my username, and I will just accept that now.
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Ditto....You either have it or ya don't.... :sad1:nathana said:
I always like to have more treble and more volume than I can EVER possibly use*, and then tame it down from there. I have started testing pots before I put them into guitars, and I for one will never buy another so-called "250K" pot. Dig out your multi-meter and see - most 250's run between 200 and 240, about one out of five or six is actually the right value. Most 500's run between 440 and 480, down to 400... :sad1:
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When I figured out that capacitors are additive in parallel, and when I learned the trick about adding a 750k resistor to a 500k pot to make it 300, I realized you can wire up any guitar with low-value capacitors and 500k pots, and just ADD stuff on top of the wiring to retune the sweep and range of the pots, as long as you're leaving room for that when you first build it.
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/potm.htm
Gleemo started out with a 500k tone pot (one of those concentrics) and a .033 uf capacitor, cause I didn't want the highs to be too muted -
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Thazz Gleemo, on the left... she got a 750k resistor quicky and picked up another .015 cap, pronto. Ever hear a banjo through a Marshall stack?
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evil4: :evil4: :evil4: :evil4When I figured out that capacitors are additive in parallel, and when I learned the trick about adding a 750k resistor to a 500k pot to make it 300, I realized you can wire up any guitar with low-value capacitors and 500k pots, and just ADD stuff on top of the wiring to retune the sweep and range of the pots, as long as you're leaving room for that when you first build it.
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/potm.htm
Gleemo started out with a 500k tone pot (one of those concentrics) and a .033 uf capacitor, cause I didn't want the highs to be too muted -
:toothy10: :hello2: :blob7: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :blob7: :hello2: :toothy10:
Thazz Gleemo, on the left... she got a 750k resistor quicky and picked up another .015 cap, pronto. Ever hear a banjo through a Marshall stack?
I can't figure out why people obsess over pot values, or why most people don't understand the first thing about pots - I've played around with all the common values. They affect the sound only just a bit, and the way in which they affect the sound is nothing special, you can get a high-value pot, turn down the treble on your amp just a tosh and it'll sound the same as a lower value pot. It's nothing whatsoever to do with 'gain', high- and low- output or anything like that.
1 meg pots are useful when you feel you don't get enough brightness from your signal. It doesn't matter what the output is, or whether they are single or HBs or whatever. They preserve a bit more of the treble response coming from the pickups than a 500k pot would. So if you feel your pickups are muddy, a 1 meg pot might be worth trying out. I used them in combination with a no load pot to try and get more single coil sounds out of a set of GFS noiseless strat pups that I had, they were useful for that.
Personally, I'll use 500k pots as a standard on anything now, and if something sounds muddy I'd try a 1 meg pot to see if it helps a bit. 250k pots, which often have actual measured values of around 200k, bleed off too much treble, and if something is too bright I can always use my guitar / amp tone controls anyhow.
1 meg pots are useful when you feel you don't get enough brightness from your signal. It doesn't matter what the output is, or whether they are single or HBs or whatever. They preserve a bit more of the treble response coming from the pickups than a 500k pot would. So if you feel your pickups are muddy, a 1 meg pot might be worth trying out. I used them in combination with a no load pot to try and get more single coil sounds out of a set of GFS noiseless strat pups that I had, they were useful for that.
Personally, I'll use 500k pots as a standard on anything now, and if something sounds muddy I'd try a 1 meg pot to see if it helps a bit. 250k pots, which often have actual measured values of around 200k, bleed off too much treble, and if something is too bright I can always use my guitar / amp tone controls anyhow.
I have tried them, and I really like them. even just for a volume pot, and no other pots in the signal chain. with a lot of wiring options, for example, the #2 push pull pot wiring from seymour duncan for the prails, you might loose a lot of highs and definition. the 1 meg ohm pots make sure you get as much of the highs as possible.they don't 'give' more highs than a 500k pot, but you get a bit more clarity.
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Most stuff I've read says they're almost like a direct line from the pup to the amp.... :dontknow:Orpheo said:
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