Ace Flibble
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As it says, building an HSH guitar with just one single volume control (I despise tone controls with a passion). Just to make things extra complicated the neck pickup is going to be a P-Rails, so we've got HSH, HSS and HSP to balance out and the guitar uses a Gibson style 3-way toggle switch, not a Strat style switch, so there can be no Esquire-style extra capacitor shenanigans either. Oh yeah, and it needs to be a push-pull or push-push (figured I'd throw in my beloved phase switching as well), so I can't split the difference and use 300k or concentric pots, nor do I have the tools to modify any P/P pots. So 500k and 250k are my only options. Fun.
Ultimately, the kind of tone I like is a bridge pickup with two 500k controls with a 0.015uf capacitor on the tone control and for single coils and P-90s, one 250k pot and one 500k pot with a 0.033uf cap. I always leave the tone controls at 10 though and then get royally pissed off if they ever get nudged down so invariably I end up ripping them out and put together guitars with only the one volume control. Never done one volume with such a mix of pickups before though.
I always thought that one 250k pot will result in the same tone, when at 10, as a 500k volume and a 500k tone pot both at 10. However, I've since been told that this is wrong and that the single 250k pot will always sound slightly darker. Which is correct, or is neither correct?
Or, perhaps more simply, could I use a 500k pot then add extra 500k resistors to the neck and middle pickups in a way that somehow does not effect the bridge pickup?
Or, considering even this one control is always going to be left full on, is there even any need to worry? At 10, do the different values of volume pots even matter?
Ultimately, the kind of tone I like is a bridge pickup with two 500k controls with a 0.015uf capacitor on the tone control and for single coils and P-90s, one 250k pot and one 500k pot with a 0.033uf cap. I always leave the tone controls at 10 though and then get royally pissed off if they ever get nudged down so invariably I end up ripping them out and put together guitars with only the one volume control. Never done one volume with such a mix of pickups before though.
I always thought that one 250k pot will result in the same tone, when at 10, as a 500k volume and a 500k tone pot both at 10. However, I've since been told that this is wrong and that the single 250k pot will always sound slightly darker. Which is correct, or is neither correct?
Or, perhaps more simply, could I use a 500k pot then add extra 500k resistors to the neck and middle pickups in a way that somehow does not effect the bridge pickup?
Or, considering even this one control is always going to be left full on, is there even any need to worry? At 10, do the different values of volume pots even matter?
