Guitar volume pot acting up

[morgansbluff]

So I put cts push pull pots in my Les Paul. I've always had it wired 50s style. The issue I'm having now only on on the neck pickup is when I roll my volume back to clean up I lose a good amount of tone between 80 and 60%. No issue with the bridge pickup. My question is do some pickups just act like that or did I maybe overheat a pot. I disconnected the tone pot from the circuit and got same results. I can't remember if it always sounded this way with the old pots.

 

[psychodave]

Seems like the pot might have an issue....although with the pot on full, it should be okay. Can you wire in another pot to test?

 

[morgansbluff]

On full it sounds great. Just in between 60 to 80% rolls off tone. Which is where I normally roll it to. I can get some of the tone to come back by rolling the tone knob off. But with it being 50s wiring I think I'm just getting the volume slightly lower which if I do that with the volume knob it has the same effect

 

[Racerxrated]

If you have deoxit, try to spray some in the pot while turning the knob. It might just be dirty.

 

[morgansbluff]

I ended up putting new pots in. I made a jig and actually did a really good wiring job. Sad to say it didn't change anything. I think it's just how my neck pickup is. It loses some highs and really pushes mids at the certain range on the volume knob. But then as I get lower all the highs come back it's really strange