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Post subject: What are pots?
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:45 am
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I have often read that some guitarists replace the pots on their instruments. Assuming they want to cook (without food) with better sound, a lot of players mention replacing them when they upgrade the pickups. My question is, what are pots, do they come with new pickups and how do you order them. I keyed pots on Musician's friend and came up empty.


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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:09 am
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Glynn wrote:
I have often read that some guitarists replace the pots on their instruments. Assuming they want to cook (without food) with better sound, a lot of players mention replacing them when they upgrade the pickups. My question is, what are pots, do they come with new pickups and how do you order them. I keyed pots on Musician's friend and came up empty.


Welcome.

Briefly and in this context, "pots", short for, "potentiometers" are the volume and tone controls (usually of rotary design) in any guitar, bass or amp. Dialing them up or down varies the flow of 'juice' through the circuit of whatever they are in.

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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:10 am
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Glynn wrote:
I have often read that some guitarists replace the pots on their instruments. Assuming they want to cook (without food) with better sound, a lot of players mention replacing them when they upgrade the pickups. My question is, what are pots, do they come with new pickups and how do you order them. I keyed pots on Musician's friend and came up empty.


Pots are potentiometers. They are the volume and tone controls for most electric guitars. The explanation below is from stewmac.

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Your tone is affected by the control pots you use. Not just the tone control — the volume pot influences tone, too.

250K vs. 500K pots
250K pots give a slightly warmer tone than 500K because the 250K bleeds off some of the high frequencies.

250K =warmer
500K =brighter
1 Meg = brightest

Usually, 250K pots are used with single-coil pickups and and 500Ks are used with humbuckers. If you want to hear your guitar "wide open" with all the highs, try 1 Meg pots.

25K pots are used with active systems.

Here's a link where I got the info and some pictures...

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Potentiometers.html

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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:00 am
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Thanks for the quick response. Can anyone tell me what kind of pots came with my 69 tele thinline?


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Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:40 am
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Glynn wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. Can anyone tell me what kind of pots came with my 69 tele thinline?


Two 250K CTS pots. No need to think about changing them, unless they break or you change to humbucker pickups.


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