pots and hss guitar

[Marshall Law]

I have a pickgaurd with a hum, single, single, pickups, all the pots, volume, tone, tone, are 250k , I have a coil splitter toggle for the humbucker also, do I want the 250k pots or 500k pots

 

[MrDan666]

500k would be my choice

 

[Marshall Law]

500k would be my choice

just the volume or the tone pots too

 

[MrDan666]

500k would be my choice

just the volume or the tone pots too

I usually put all pots (vol + tone) as 500K

 

[ratter]

I'd probably start with 500k. If you find it's too bright you can do the trick that Suhr and Anderson and others do and parallel a ~470k resistor off the single coils so that they 'see' a ~250k pot and leave the humbucker alone so it still sees 500k. And if you've got the 2nd tone dedicated to the bridge, make it a 500k and make the neck/middle tone pot 250k.

 

[grooveHT]

You could turn the last tone knob to a volume for the bridge, so you actually have:

vol: 250k for neck and middle
tone: 250k for neck and middle
vol: 500k for bridge hum

that also leaves no tone pot load on the bridge, which some folks like a lot.

 

[Code001]

I'd probably start with 500k. If you find it's too bright you can do the trick that Suhr and Anderson and others do and parallel a ~470k resistor off the single coils so that they 'see' a ~250k pot and leave the humbucker alone so it still sees 500k. And if you've got the 2nd tone dedicated to the bridge, make it a 500k and make the neck/middle tone pot 250k.

+1

 

[blackba]

Ratter and grooveHT pretty much gave you the 2 options if you want to go for a hybrid system. I did the Anderson system with a supper switch that Ratter described and I liked how it worked out.

On my other strat I just left the pots all 250k, but it has a SD hot rails in the bridge and sounds good as is.

 

[ratter]

Found a sample diagram using the superswitch...the resistors do the job on the vol pot, then there's a 250k tone pot for neck/middle and a 500k tone pot for the bridge only.

https://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa11 ... /hss-1.jpg

 

[Code001]

This diagram is a bit nicer, IMO. I emailed DiMarzio for another diagram without the switch, just for clarity, so I'll post that up once I get it.