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Post subject: pots affect on capacitors
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:54 pm
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NO...not cannabis! potentiometer(is that spellt right...?)anyway....i hope everyone considers the affect pots have on the value of cap you have or choose to use. short explanation is if you think your stat sounds too dark or too bright or geee....not loud enough to drive your tubes then check the pot value of your volume and tone controls. personally i rewired my strats to suit my needs and the tones i wanted. both of my strats that i now have are as different as night and day. my brown sun burst with rosewood board is very bright and my black strat with maple neck is more along the lines of THE original "blackie"( no boost. old school only). i have volume pots and tone pots that are +10% in both. all are 280k to 257k(that's all 6 pots). highest is volume and next is the neck pup and the third is the middle. the bridge is wired old school(no tone for you newbies).pickups sound brighter as you move towards the bridge.we have kicked eachother because of caps and belittled others, but now......you see i have .1uf caps and my guitars are bright if i want them or dark. just check it out . you WILL be surprised.the higher the ohms the brighter or louder( don't put 500k pots in your strat with single coils).


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Post subject: Re: pots affect on capacitors
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:15 pm
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Potentiometer nearly right
spelt .... er a bit off
cannabis lol

Pots, a variable resistance. Can be wired as a potential divider (3 wires) or a straight variable resistance. (2 wires)
Its other electrical properties are usually secondary
to the primary issue of ohmic value in this application IMHO Others may chime in.

.. Al


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Post subject: Re: pots affect on capacitors
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 4:39 pm
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sorry i can't spell for crap but you get the point. i changed it. lol.


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Post subject: Re: pots affect on capacitors
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:57 pm
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wow..... instead of this being about pot values affecting your tone it becomes a thread on misspelling. only on the fender web site. pogue moi thoin.


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Post subject: Re: pots affect on capacitors
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:28 pm
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Yeah thought someone else might have added to it? Only used the standard value
pots myself even when replacing faulty stuff.

No idea what "pogue moi thoin means but the spelling looks good.... :lol:

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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:46 pm
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shinkicker wrote:
( don't put 500k pots in your strat with single coils).


sound advice (pun intended) :D

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Post subject: Re: pots affect on capacitors
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:10 pm
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it seems that using pots that are above 250k but no higher than say 280k or 275k yeld a better sound. i have 69 cs in one strat and 57/62 and a fs-1 in the bridge in the other. the higher value pots with the .1uf cap is a great sound. very vintage and more ballanced and brighter but it really makes my bdri(with some mods, thanks bluesky)have that angry sweaty pig sound when pushed. the higher value for the volume lets me be able to turn the guitar down and still get crunch but still have some left to scream if i want. the higher values in the tones let me get the "woman tone" without going to mud at 1 at any volume(jazzy when you turn the volume down to around 4 or 5). i'm a dynamic player, always turning knobs to get the tones i want when i play.


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