500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?

[Robbocopy]

Hi there!

I've bought a new Li'l Screaming Demon (bridge) for my old strat. the problem is that I can't find any information anywhere about which pot to use.

Since I will have a separate volume pot for the bridge pickup, one 250k volume pot for the old middle and neck pickups along with a master tone I can choose either a 500k or 250k for the bridge pickup without affecting the character of the other pickups.

So what does Seymour Duncan recommend for the Li'l Screaming Demon?

/R

[Troy T. Blues]

Re: 500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?

Most likely 250K on a Strat with single coils....

[ArtieToo]

Re: 500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?

Hi Robbo, and welcome to the forum.

The Screamin' Demon, being a humbucker, will probably work best with a 500k. The problem is, there's no way to avoid a certain degree of interaction with other pups when you go with dual-volume controls. I'm trying to get a webpage done that illustrates this better, but 'til then, just be aware of the problem.

It's not a serious problem. Dual-volume control guitars have been around for years. But it's something to be aware of.

Edit: Actually, Troy may be right. It appears as though all the SD schematics show little humbuckers with 250k's.

[Robbocopy]

Re: 500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?

Thanks Artie and Troy!

Seems like a nice place.

The guitar is a 1973 Strat with alder body and rose/maple neck. 73 was the last year Fender used the 60's style pickups on the Strats and I love those for certain sounds.

The guitar is great for SRV and Jimi sounds and funky rythms, but it doesn't like to be overdriven too much.

I mainly use the neck and the neck/mid position apart from when I am using it for clean "rythmic" stuff where I am using the mid/bridge setting, so the bridge pickup doesn't get used much.

Then one day I did a recording in my studio where the guitarist had a home made strat with a rose/maple Warmoth neck and home made body of honduran mahogany. The pickups where a trio of Li'l Screeming Demons

He used one of my amps and the overdriven and the distorted sounds were amazing.

My Strats alder body is brighter and tighter that a mahogany strat body which is fatter, but I've been thinking about trying that pickup ever since and now I've bought one.

So by adding a Li'l Screeming Demon at the bridge I would still have all the Strat sounds I liked and get like a second guitar for high gain playing.

Since I am mainly a Les Paul player I am used to be able to blend in the neck pickup with the bridge pickup so I thought I should rewire the whole thing now when I am changing the bridge pickup to this Li'l Screeming Demon.

The way it will be wired the 250 pot for the neck and mid pickups will be out of the circuit when I am selecting the bridge pickup. The only time when both volume pots will be connected at the same time will be whan I am mixing the bridge pickup with the others.

So that's why I can chose either 500k or 250k for the bridge pickup without "ruin" the other pickups sounds.

OK, so you are sure SD recommends 250s? It make sence because it's a direct replacment for a strat pickup, but on the other hand I never seen a humbucker which liked a 250k load.

/R

[ArtieToo]

Re: 500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?

OK, so you are sure SD recommends 250s? It make sence because it's a direct replacment for a strat pickup, but on the other hand I never seen a humbucker which liked a 250k load.

/R

This is what threw me too. Generally, you use 500k's for humbuckers, but all the SD schematics show 250k's for Strat replacements.

For example:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/website...at_bridge.html

Just go to Duncans main page, click on "Support", then "schematics", then look at some of the Strat Noise-Cancelling Pickups section.

[Robbocopy]

Re: 500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?

Thanks!

There it is! Well I'll start with a 250k and if it gets to muddy I'll change it for a 500k.

Excellent! Thanks again!

/R

[MikeS]

Re: 500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?

In a bright strat I might stick with the 250k. I'm still running 250k with a full size demon and like the tone. I've also got a fairly bright strat.

[Robbocopy]

Re: 500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?

Our other guitarist has a full size Trembucker Demon with a 500k pot in his ESP/Warmoth Trem Tele and it's one of the best Fender style guitars I've ever played.

/R