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i can also tell you from experience, hard wiring a cap, when you start getting closer in cap values that dont darken or mud up the tone knobs influence on the circuit.....well, it's just easier to have the caps all on a varitone

also, i put a resistor in series with the caps....and it seems that during measurement, the resistor lowers the caps value, which i thought weird. i even tried a few different resistors to make sure i wasn't making a mistake.
im not sure what tonal affect this has, but i wasn't will to start splitting those hairs.

imho, if you are going to hardwire, start with some caps above the stock value, say, not lower....lower = mud in a LP. you'll be dissapointed in the return on investment.
 
came across this....apparently it's hendrix's wiring he liked.

interesting to note is the 330pf cap across his Master volume as a treble bleed.
 
Very interesting.. so essentially in layman's terms, a cap / resistor combo over the volume knob of the pickup will affect the highs some. This definitely would be a better way of experimenting with tone rather than swapping a pickup out and in each time. I know right now i have two guitars that seem overly bright to me and I like the gain characteristics of the pickup but not how sharp/thin they sound for leads. So what values are recommended for treble bleed across humbuckers?

Here is my question where tone knobs are concerned.. i thought they are out of the circuit when the tone pot is all the way up? So really, tone knob caps are useless at taming high end if you like playing with everything on 10. I have tried the blending volumes on a bright paul type of guitar and rolling back volume etc... but bottom line is that like Yngwie and VH, I like my volumes on ten! Rolled back for cleans but pinned for the gain.
 
rolling back your volume with a treble bleed maintains the treble in your tone, not the other way around. it lets the treble bleed through.

i dont use the resistor and cap...i like just a cap across the outer lug and middle lug....i suppose you could use a reallly low rated cap, like 50pf, or even 80....that wouldnt allow the treble to go above that certain curve, but i dont know what the curve is...i think that's how it would work, the lower the rating, the less high end would bleed through.
 
some tone knobs offer no resistance on 10, some do.

this is what i've found with the ones in my guitars. i know up around 8-10 on most of the knobs i have, you start to notice the cap cut less and less (with both tone cap and treble bleed cap). thats why i dont like the sound of the resistor in there in the treble bleed....it makes the pot respond wayy differently than im used to...and, while you can teach an old dog new tricks, it's hard to get used to hardware responding differently than im used to i guess!
 
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