Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: hunter on October 29, 2007, 12:20:39 PM
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Anyone know which parts to solder in what way in order to obtain the effect that treble is retained when turning down the volume on guitars?
I think this is a combination of resistor and cap in parallel?
It would be important that sound is unaffected when the pot is on full?
Different parts for humbucker and single coil guitars I suppose?
Where the web is full of info about tone capacitors, there is hardly any real info on volume caps.
Any info would be great!
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gordon smiths are treble bleed circuit, if so have a wiring diagram
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If you want a treble bleed cap so that it stays bright sounding as you turn down (fitted between lugs 2 & 3 of the volume pot)
Also recommend a 150K resistor in parallel with the cap
I posted a piccy of this in a previous post- repeated below
Previous post here (http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5109&highlight=treble+bleed)
(http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/files/treble-bleed-web_418.jpg)
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Thinking of doing this myself, so lugs 2 and 3 are middle and earth then? How about values of cap and resistor? What's a basic rule of thumb?
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No - 2 and 3 are the other 2 lugs where the input from the switch or pickup goes and where the output wire goes..
You are kind of letting some high frequencies bypass the pot and this gives a treble bleed/bypass
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I just installed a treble bleed mod on my Gretsch. I must say it works. The treble stays in bu there's a down side: The vloume won't roll off as graduately as it used to. When I turn the volume knob down, the difference in volume is minimal untill it cuts out completely.
I think I'll remove it again.