Author Topic: treble bleed? romoval (Read 2831 times)

sgmypod · « **on:** February 06, 2007, 08:11:37 PM »

turns out I have a treble bleed on my gordon smith, have just fitted a Mqueen,
1. is it worth removing

2. if so what difference will it make to my sound?

Twinfan · « **Reply #1 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:43:40 PM »

1) That's up to you

2) It'll sound at 10 like it now does with the tone at 9

dave_mc · « **Reply #2 on:** February 06, 2007, 10:09:08 PM »

main thing a treble bleed does (far as I can tell) is stop you losing highs as you roll your volume down. it's personal preference, but I like having one- if you roll your guitar's volume down for cleans, things can get very muddy very quickly, especially considering most (maybe some, just to be safe!) people like sparkly cleans.

Jazz Rock · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2007, 12:05:09 AM »

Could you remind me what a treble bleed consist in, in terms electric device?
I think I'll need to put one on my LPs.

gingataff · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2007, 01:53:00 AM »

Quote from: Jazz Rock

Could you remind me what a treble bleed consist in, in terms electric device?
I think I'll need to put one on my LPs.

There are different ways to do it. I put one on mine by soldering a 330pF cap between the centre tag and live tag on the volume pot.

sgmypod · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2007, 04:40:33 PM »

erm not sure then...first guitar with one

Scali · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2007, 08:36:22 PM »

I have one guitar with, and one guitar without a capacitor on the volume...
I didn't know this when I first bought the guitars, but I always liked the one with capacitor better when I rolled the volume down... it could clean up even the dirtiest of sounds, and give a very dynamic or even funky clean sound, where the other guitar would be quite muddy and not too defined.
I'm now considering putting it in the other guitar aswell.

So well, unless you don't like how your sound cleans up when you back off the volume, I suggest you keep it.

Peter Antal · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:39:36 PM »

My Strat has a 220K resistor and a 250 pF cap in parallel.

dave_mc · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:57:58 PM »

Quote from: Scali

I have one guitar with, and one guitar without a capacitor on the volume...
I didn't know this when I first bought the guitars, but I always liked the one with capacitor better when I rolled the volume down... it could clean up even the dirtiest of sounds, and give a very dynamic or even funky clean sound, where the other guitar would be quite muddy and not too defined.
I'm now considering putting it in the other guitar aswell.

So well, unless you don't like how your sound cleans up when you back off the volume, I suggest you keep it.

yeah, that's what I'm going by too... my ibanez has one, and my kramer doesn't.

:drink:

sgmypod · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2007, 10:06:55 PM »

ta will keep see how I go