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Post subject: caps to calm vintage noiseless.
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:39 pm
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In my never ending quest to calm my vintage noiseless pickups i bought some new caps. Sprauge .033 and .047, 2 of each. Anyone have any good ideas on wiring or coupling to take the aggressive treble out of the VN's with them.

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Post subject: Re: caps to calm vintage noiseless.
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:05 am
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In my never ending quest to calm my vintage noiseless pickups i bought some new caps. Sprauge .033 and .047, 2 of each. Anyone have any good ideas on wiring or coupling to take the aggressive treble out of the VN's with them.


You'd do better to change the potentiometers if they have a higher value than 250K ohms.

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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:46 pm
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I never could get my Vintage Noiseless pickups to sound good. But Martian is on the right track. Fender started packaging the VNs with different pots because they sounded so flat with 250k pots. So while I don't think using all 250k pots is the right answer, perhaps finding out what the value of your volume pot is and then replacing it with a lower value might be the ticket. So if your volume pot is a 1 meg pot, replace it with a 500k pot. If it's already a 500k pot, then replace it with a 300k or 250k pot.

You could also just try to solder a resistor in parallel to the volume pot to lower it's value. For example, soldering a 1 meg resistor from the outside wiper to ground (or between the two outside wipers) on a 500k pot would give around 330k. A 1 meg resistor soldered to a 1meg pot gives you 500k. A 470k resistor to a 500k pot will get it to about 240k. A 470k resistor soldered to a 1 meg pot gets you to about 320k.

There are many other possible combinations...

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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:33 pm
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Their wired to a clapton boost circuit. The volume is a 50k, the boost is a 1meg and the tone is a 250k. I wired the caps (a 0.47 then a 0.22) onto the tone pot. Its helped some with the tone on 8, but the treble is still very harsh at times.

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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:58 pm
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Their wired to a clapton boost circuit.


Well, I guess that changes everything, doesn't it? Knowing how well Gold Lace Sensors work with that circuit and how much I hate the Vintage Noiseless pickups, I would only recommend that you replace your pickups with Lace Sensors.

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