1 meg vol pot?

[Racerxrated]

Anyone ever try a 1 meg vol pot? My 86 Jackson vol pot is beginning to show signs of failure. Cleaned it and it's still got some intermittent no signal moments. It's a vol no tone setup. Stock is the common 500k pot.
What happens if I go to 1 meg? Way too bright? Or, closer to wiring the pup directly to the output jack?

 

[Music&Chaos]

Anyone ever try a 1 meg vol pot? My 86 Jackson vol pot is beginning to show signs of failure. Cleaned it and it's still got some intermittent no signal moments. It's a vol no tone setup. Stock is the common 500k pot.
What happens if I go to 1 meg? Way too bright? Or, closer to wiring the pup directly to the output jack?

The only real way to know if it sounds good in that guitar to give it a try.

You could try jumping it to the jack now and see if you dig it before deciding.

 

[gibsonash]

500k is darker than 1 meg

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[BeZo]

I just switched all mine out to 1 meg because with the same pickups, the guitar with the 1 meg pot was brighter and clearer. I thought it was the covered pickups, but I noticed the 1 meg pot in the circuit more than I did the pickup cover differences.

 

[TheGreatGreen]

Yep, those pots are brighter, and you might notice more subtle changes in volume with small movements when the pot is towards the top of its sweep and more drastic changes with small movements towards the lower part of the sweep.

 

[Exo-metal]

Anyone ever try a 1 meg vol pot? My 86 Jackson vol pot is beginning to show signs of failure. Cleaned it and it's still got some intermittent no signal moments. It's a vol no tone setup. Stock is the common 500k pot.
What happens if I go to 1 meg? Way too bright? Or, closer to wiring the pup directly to the output jack?

Do it and compensate elsewhere if its too bright. I think you'll like it.

 

[thegame]

1k pots are Too glassy/brittle in the top end, too lean in the lows used with 99.9% of passive pickups. Maybe ok used with usually dark and fat pickups like Duncan Invader, etc

 

[Exo-metal]

1k pots are Too glassy/brittle in the top end, too lean in the lows used with 99.9% of passive pickups. Maybe ok used with usually dark and fat pickups like Duncan Invader, etc

Like I said, that pot is one part. If you have a dark pickup that might work. That is compensated but it could be another piece in the chain like the boost pedal eq ect....

 

[MusicIsLife]

If your pups are already on the bright side, it may be too much.

I view pots the same way as cables in terms of effect on tone: there's a certain amount of loss that comes from them, and that may be okay if we've built our sounds around that. I lean towards wanting as little loss as possible between my guitar and the rest of the signal chain. I'd rather get too much of something and have to cut it, then get too little and have to artificially add it. Same approach with EQ.