Brighter tone?

[ethan_hanus]

So, in order to get a brighter, less compressed tone, switching from 500k pots to 250k tone pots, and 500k to 1 Meg volume pot should work, right? On my HSS strat, the Trilogy Suite pickups sound very compressed and bassy, and I can't get it to EQ right on my amp, so I'm under the impression that different value pots will solve this issue. Also, when switching to the 1 Meg volume pot, is this going to make the Painkiller in the bridge brighter? Cause it's already a bright punchy mofo.

[PhilKing]

I got around this by wiring 2 volumes with a master tone.  I used a 500K and 1meg for the volumes.  What is the capacitor value you are using?  Changing to 0.022mf would brighten the tone.

[ethan_hanus]

I think the one in there right now is a .047mf, but I'm getting a .022mf, going with a standard strat values except for th volume pot.

[gwEm]

phil's solution is a very good one. i have a strat with 250k neck volume, 1M bridge volume, and 500k tone

[HTH AMPS]

500k is best for humbuckers.  going up to 1M will brighten the tone, going down to 250k will darken the tone.

if the existing shared volume is 250k (for single coils), then you can wire up a fixed 500k resistor so that the bridge pickup will always have the 500k 'load' and the single coils will 'see' a 250k load (500k pot in parallel with a 500k fixed resistor is 250k).  any tech worth their salt will know how to do this.

[ethan_hanus]

Well, I'm going to try the standard strat set up except with a 1 meg volume pot, and I'll go from there.