cr@ppy pots, or...

[Mr. Air]

Yep, otherwise it's another volume pot 

Aha! There's nothing like learing new stuff every day. The life of the noob  :lol:

[Philly Q]

Yep, otherwise it's another volume pot 

Aha! There's nothing like learing new stuff every day. The life of the noob  :lol:

 :lol:

I could take the same approach to my guitar playing!  If I wasn't completely bone idle.

[Mr. Air]

Yep, otherwise it's another volume pot 

Aha! There's nothing like learing new stuff every day. The life of the noob  :lol:

 :lol:

I could take the same approach to my guitar playing!  If I wasn't completely bone idle.

So Philly. Are you more of a collector than a player? Or maybe not collector but guitar technician...

I just ordered some of the treble bleed capacitors that Dave linked to earlier in this thread. I'm looking foreward to trying these out. Also ordered new pots for the LP. Thought it coldn't hurt and they seem to be normal size pots, if that term excists.

[Afghan Dave]

My rule of thumb is..

"If its Asian, replace the wiring, caps and pots"  - cheap to replace parts and the process can unlock a hidden gem.

Many Asian guitars are great when you just give em some love.  :)

Let us know how it goes.

[Mr. Air]

My rule of thumb is..

"If its Asian, replace the wiring, caps and pots"  - cheap to replace parts and the process can unlock a hidden gem.

Many Asian guitars are great when you just give em some love.  :)

Let us know how it goes.

I'll let you know for sure. If I was to replace the wiring what would be the ideal sollution and how big effect does the wiring have at the overall sound? The last one might be difficult to answer. How would one be able to measure the wirings effect?  :?

[Mr. Air]

I almost forgot. Should the treble bleed capacitor be wired in series or parallel? A guy who wrote an article on the subject didn't like parallel (something to do wioth the volume, can't exactly remember).

[Philly Q]

So Philly. Are you more of a collector than a player? Or maybe not collector but guitar technician...

In a word, yes.   :lol:

I love guitars, love taking them apart and putting them together.   But I'm too lazy and/or talentless to be a good player.

On the last couple of treble bleed questions, I don't know - but it's cheap and easy to experiment.  :D

[Mr. Air]

But I'm too lazy and/or talentless to be a good player.

But what constitutes a good player? I would definitely not call myself talented and don't find myself that good either. And I know so little about the technical stuff.

Even though. No reason for not loving and enjoying guitars!  :D

[Mr. Air]

I just recieved the new pots and switch and of course I was eager to give my guitar the makeover. But sadly I realized that I'd pulled off an Afghan Dave  :lol:

Yup, best to check and check again... I always get the wrong size everything. 

Wrong size of everything except from the jack socket. Anyone who knows where to get good metric sized pots?

The 3 way switch I ordered is longer than the one I got in the guitar know just not long enough in the right place. The tip of the switch where the "bolt" locks (I don't know the English word for this part) is too short. Where to get a size that fits?

[gingataff]

If the pots don't fit, I use a reamer to make the hole bigger.

I don't think there are any metric sized pots that are as good as CTS (et al), and if you really want to put the original pots back at some point you can and it won't be too noticeable, you can even get small plastic adapter rings or metal sleeves to make them fit if you need to.

[Afghan Dave]

A bit of rolled up sandpaper or a file will get the holes just that little bit bigger and there really isn't a downside to doing this.

[Mr. Air]

Thanks for the tips guys. I hope I didn't offend you Dave by naming buying the wrong sized electronics an Afghan Dave  :P

[Afghan Dave]

No, not at all mate.

Remember "all's well that ends well"   :D

[Dmoney]

id overlooked this thread.

might try this on my LTD. ive started writing songs with roll offs for cleans and this could be cool in my les paul too.

so its just a resistor and cap in parallel across the volume input and wiper. and the wiper still connects to the tone pot via the .022 cap?

(sorry if thats a dumb question, its very late)

[Ratrod]

I put a 0.001 uF metal film capasitor on the master volume of my Gretsch. Some like to add a resistor to it but that ruins the taper.

Get the good ones like the Sprague Orange drop or a WIMA not some cheap ceramic disc cap.