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Post subject: Seeking new pots and troubleshooting install of pickups
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 3:28 pm
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Hi there everyone, thanks for reading.

I have a 1998 Fender Deluxe Super Strat. Mexico edition. Its my first guitar Ive owned since 2000, and ive modded it a bit with the pickups. It has all original pots, which are scratchy and cut out sometimes. My pickups are as follows:

BRIDGE: Dimarzio ToneZone rails in single coil size
MIDDLE: Fender Noiseless Vintage
NECK: Fender Hot Noiseless.

When installing these I also copper shielded the internals, and moved the ground to the shield box, and installed a treble bleed on the volume. Its been a while though, so Im trying to remember it all.

My questions are which value pots will be proper for my setup? As well, I also have a grounding issue, that goes away if I touch my finger to my cable on the input. Also, whats the best method of getting my bridge pickup to blend better when I am using the B+M pickup selection as well as the Super Button that adds the bridge in with neck or all three.

I am playing through a Peavey 6505+ 1x12 combo, and truly love the tones im getting especially on the crunch channel for bluesy stuff with the single coil noiseless ones.


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Post subject: Re: Seeking new pots and troubleshooting install of pickups
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:31 am
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Papinbrew wrote:
Hi there everyone, thanks for reading.

It has all original pots, which are scratchy and cut out sometimes. .


Just clean pots with a good electronic contact cleaner like Deoxit.
MG Chemical are good too.
Cheap one may not work


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Post subject: Re: Seeking new pots and troubleshooting install of pickups
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:15 am
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The DiMarzio pickup will work fine with a 250KΩ pot but the Fender VN's may be happier with 500KΩ.

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