What pot value should I use for a 500T?

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So I decided I wanna switch it up with my Gibson. I love the Fluence Classics, but I kinda want the midrange muscle, agressive rasp, and compression of a good high-output Ceramic for a change.

However, what I don't want to loose is too much of that KERRANG when hitting the strings hard for vintage-style pickups. That slight bit of twang that I've struggled so much to get out of my Les Paul.

I'm dead set on a single volume control since I want to do the wiring myself, and I don't use the rest of the controls enough to warrant the extra trouble. Not sure if I should make it 1 Meg, 500K, or 250K. I'm 70% leaning to 1 Meg, but I'm not sure it it'd be too much. As far as I understand, the higher value just makes the resonant peak more intense, correct? So I fear that I might end up with a HUGE boost in the high mids rather than an airy open top end.

The time I had the 500T in the guitar, I had two 500K pots, one for volume, one for tone, for each pickup. So that means what the pickup was seeing was the equivalent of a single 250K volume, correct? I'm pretty sure I want to make it a bit more open this time around, but I'm not sure if 1 Meg might be too much.

Opionions? Thanks!
 
Yeah, I was thinking 500K was the safest best.

However, my HX has a variable input impedance... so I could very well get the 1M pot and just load the pickup a bit if it's too bright... would that not just have the same effect?
 
Rex Rocker said:
Yeah, I was thinking 500K was the safest best.

However, my HX has a variable input impedance... so I could very well get the 1M pot and just load the pickup a bit if it's too bright... would that not just have the same effect?
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I’m not sure. But I think if I did use a 1M and then find I need to load it down I’d probably just put a 1M resistor across the outer lugs.
 
Also... for a Les Paul, I need long shaft pots, right?
 
SpiderWars said:
If you want it a little more open than 500k vol and 500k tone I think your plan to only have a Volume control fixes that right there. I’d try 500k no-tone first and go from there
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This 100%
No tone straight volume rules.
 
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