500k volume pot what changes from 300k

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Nigel said:
Higher resistance means less bleed to ground means increases the amplitude of the resonant frequency.

I like JB's with 125-150K total load, like two 250K pots. It was designed for that load.
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Nailed on the head. Higher total load doesn't just give you "more highs", it's actually a higher spike at the resonant peak, which depending on the pickup could mean a nice amount of extra air on top (i.e. with low output pickups), or could mean boosting right in the most unpleasant upper midrange where the pick attack gets harsh and weird.

To reiterate, the total load is what matters. A single 500K volume guitar wide open will sound (ignoring the tone capacitor) the same if you switched to 1meg volume and 1meg tone both on 10.
 
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