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Post subject: 500k or 1 meg?
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:24 pm
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I'm going to upgrade the pots on my 72 Tele Custom Reissue....

Should I go 500k or 1meg?

Is the 1meg too trebley on the Wide Range HB?

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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:00 am
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ive heard 500 is the way to go

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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:28 am
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Some other things to consider...Most pots today are no longer built of Carbon Composition style traces and are silk-screened. They boast this extends the life but I have yet to see them last.

The way the shaft is shaped determines how far the knob will press onto the shaft, this can be aggravating making a knob stick high in the air. Or putting Tele metal dome knobs on a split shaft require sleeve adapters and more headaches.

Then you have the type of housing, open or closed, or the type of terminals. Enclosed housings are smarter because there's often remnant buffing compound or dust floating around that love to dirty a pot.

For me (on humbuckers) a 250K volume and a 1 Meg tone with a .022 cap has been it. What I like in a volume pot is a smooth taper from 1 to 10 and no alteration of tone. A tone pot should have a useable selection of colors.

My experience has been good with Alpha and CTS pots, but I've heard good things about the new Clarostats too.

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:52 pm
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I know the Strats use CTS pots.

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