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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:28 am
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hi! I just bought a brand new Jazzmaster '62 AVRI and I really love it!
Only thing that annoy me is the treble loss when you roll down the volume knob. Is there any Jazzmaster owners here that fixed that on their JM?

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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:52 am
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I've had a similar problem with my 62 RI thinskin except it was with the Ryth. circuit tone wheel. The first time, the pot dropped the volume as you turned it. Sent it back to the store that i bought it from and they repaired it. Worked fine for a while. A short time later, using the wheel had no effect on the tone in the ryth. circuit at all. It is now in the shop again. When its working right, I love the sound and the feel. When its not...


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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:13 pm
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Actually the pot works fine, for what it's suppose to do, lowering the volume. It's just that it take out a lot of treble as you turn it down, so the tone bacome very muddy! I wanted to know if someone did a mod of some sort to fix that, like a "treble bleed" mod or symply by replacing the pot for an other value! I know a lot of people are doing this for Teles or Strats.


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You are loosing trebs because of the resistance of the pot. You can place a small resistor and capacitor in parallel across the lugs of the volume pot to compensate for treble loss...but in my experience this makes the guitar tone sound bad all of the time.(1-10 on the vol pot) Any time I see guitars that have this mod already I advise to remove it. When I tried this mod myself I ended up cutting it within a week.

As for the different pot value...that won't change any thing, it is still a resistor and will still impede highs.

Sometimes you gotta live with limitations..Like the sweet-ooey-gooey, yet very noisy sound of a single coil pickup. It is the nature of the beast.


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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:33 am
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cool thanks for the infos! I might just use my volume pedal after all, and it sounds alright like that, it's just that I'm used to use the volume knob all the time. Volume pedal is less practical when you move around on a stage! ;-)


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True..good luck.


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