Try this. Seriously. Replace your pot with a good 1 meg pot and the cap with a simple radio shack chiclet type .01 (that's right, half the value of the standard Gibson control).
I just re-wired my thinline last night, because it had developed a grounding issue and I was tired of the two-volumes setup, and inspired by my experiments with bass caps and this article: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2008/Mar/Auditioning_Tone_Capacitors.aspx I took out the series switch and replaced w/ a cap switch so my tone pot saw either a .022 or .01 chiclet cap.
Results: the .01 cap is the better value for this guitar and these pickups (P90 n / tele br), absolutely. They both reduce the highs by a similar amount, but the .01 cap leaves the midrange, the core of your sound, alone. The rolled-back tone has more body, less volume drop as you roll it back, and makes very musical, useful sounds through the whole range of the control.
Also of note: Played clean into a blackface champ w/V30, w/ just a cord (which is not spelled CHORD, people!) with the tone pot at 10 there is absolutely no audible difference I can hear between the two caps. The .01 cap is NOT "too bright" with the tone pot at 10, even with the tele bridge pickup and the amp treble cranked, there is no diff whatsoever in the sound between the two caps. Not ONLY is not not "too bright" but since the tone control actually does control the treble and not the treble + midrange, you can turn it down and get a great sound if you think it's "too bright".
Don't argue with me if you haven't actually done this - "Leo did such and so blacch blachh blah". Try it and see if it works for you, it definitely improved my guitar. Sound clips anyone?
I just re-wired my thinline last night, because it had developed a grounding issue and I was tired of the two-volumes setup, and inspired by my experiments with bass caps and this article: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2008/Mar/Auditioning_Tone_Capacitors.aspx I took out the series switch and replaced w/ a cap switch so my tone pot saw either a .022 or .01 chiclet cap.
Results: the .01 cap is the better value for this guitar and these pickups (P90 n / tele br), absolutely. They both reduce the highs by a similar amount, but the .01 cap leaves the midrange, the core of your sound, alone. The rolled-back tone has more body, less volume drop as you roll it back, and makes very musical, useful sounds through the whole range of the control.
Also of note: Played clean into a blackface champ w/V30, w/ just a cord (which is not spelled CHORD, people!) with the tone pot at 10 there is absolutely no audible difference I can hear between the two caps. The .01 cap is NOT "too bright" with the tone pot at 10, even with the tele bridge pickup and the amp treble cranked, there is no diff whatsoever in the sound between the two caps. Not ONLY is not not "too bright" but since the tone control actually does control the treble and not the treble + midrange, you can turn it down and get a great sound if you think it's "too bright".
Don't argue with me if you haven't actually done this - "Leo did such and so blacch blachh blah". Try it and see if it works for you, it definitely improved my guitar. Sound clips anyone?
