Poplar bodied guitars, and 250k pots vs 500k - discuss

[JakeAC5253]

This whole talk about a certain wood type having it's own eq curve is nothing less than ridiculous. A guitars electronics form a closed system and what it is mounted to makes little difference in how that system functions. The design is much more important to the tone of the guitar than the wood type used. Shift the bridge pickup a 1/4" toward the bridge and you lose metric tons of low end and mud and gain spank and upper mid grind. Try it if you don't believe me. It's not one of these 'light' "oh, it changes the timbre slightly" things either. A slight difference in pickup placement makes a different guitar sound completely. Wood quality and construction is a valid argument, but wood tones are a myth.

I vote 500k because it sends a more powerful signal to later parts of the chain.

 

[John4021]

Turns out the guitar I was going to trade for has a poplar body...mine is ash. Both are EBMM Silhouettes.

I have tried a few pups in my ash silo and each time it still sounds thin, bright and lacking 'fatness'. Today I called EBMM and found out that the silo's come with 250k pots

Maybe a simple switch to a 500k will bring my guitar to life??

I'm still curious about poplar vs ash though

I had John "The Dutchman" up here put a 1meg pot in the San Dimas........meh
Didnt seem to make this big radical differance as he said it would.

Hmm, when he put the big block on the trem and put the one meg pot in, it made a LOT of difference to the San Dimas I had. Very odd.

Unless that 1meg pot was junk,I lost tone when rolling it back, Once I put a new 500k in,problem solved.

 

[John4021]

absolutly,,,,,,,did you change the volume pot?

Didnt have time Worked on tranfering my goodies in my 4 space rack into a 6 space for the awesome wet/dry goodness

You've got to hear this thing dude!

Take your rig to John's...since we know we can, you know, TURN IT UP, there.

Ahhh yes! There's no shortage of volume there

Yeah,the retired neighbors just love us

 

[axemeaquestion]

This whole talk about a certain wood type having it's own eq curve is nothing less than ridiculous. A guitars electronics form a closed system and what it is mounted to makes little difference in how that system functions. The design is much more important to the tone of the guitar than the wood type used. Shift the bridge pickup a 1/4" toward the bridge and you lose metric tons of low end and mud and gain spank and upper mid grind. Try it if you don't believe me. It's not one of these 'light' "oh, it changes the timbre slightly" things either. A slight difference in pickup placement makes a different guitar sound completely. Wood quality and construction is a valid argument, but wood tones are a myth.

I vote 500k because it sends a more powerful signal to later parts of the chain.

Blasphemy.

 

[Rogue]

I would say how a particular piece of wood resonates and whether the neck and body resonate well together has more an influence on tone than the wood type.