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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: DoomBuggi on March 31, 2012, 12:40:28 AM

Title: Potentiometers?
Post by: DoomBuggi on March 31, 2012, 12:40:28 AM

Do you use the BKP 550k CTS pots, or just 500k Pots for you humbuckers?

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Post by: FELINEGUITARS on March 31, 2012, 01:07:22 AM

I always use the 550k ones - I love them!

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Post by: JacksonRR on March 31, 2012, 07:54:17 PM

I like 1Meg pots myself.

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Post by: CanadianMetalhead on April 02, 2012, 06:51:52 AM

Just put in 1 meg pots. With sweeter top end sounding pickups they $%&#ing rock lol.

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Post by: DoomBuggi on April 02, 2012, 04:24:35 PM

Do you folks use the 550 & 1meg for other pickups, ie non-BK?

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Post by: Alex on April 03, 2012, 05:07:14 PM

I used a 1 Meg on my SG's tone control in the neck to brighten the stock neck pickup (500K volume, 1 meg tone). That's the approach I'd take: First try normal 500K pots and if you feel it is lacking top end/too dark/mushy, put in a 1 meg ohm pot.
The danger is that it can sound harsh & thin on the top end. Lower rating pots aren't all bad, they do help fatten up the top end. It's mostly a matter of taste and finding what fits and most of the time that boils down to 500Kohm pots for humbuckers. For example George Lynch's guitars quite often don't feature tone knobs, but he still had some resistors soldered in to emulate the effect of having one.

Title: Re: Potentiometers?
Post by: Toe-Knee on April 03, 2012, 06:23:40 PM

I generally dont use pots. I leave the stock ones in for cosmetic reasons and just wire a on/off toggle to the output jack.

I find that pots kill the tone a touch. Not much but its definitely noticeable.

Title: Re: Potentiometers?
Post by: DoomBuggi on April 04, 2012, 05:53:19 AM

Thanks guys