Preferred Pot Brands/Manufacturer?

[Diminished Triad]

Thinking of outfitting my Warmoth kits with fender pots, but want to know if anyone has recommendations for better makes?
Using for 1 strat with 3 single coils, 1 strat with 2 humbuckers, and 1 tele with standard tele pickups (all SD pickups for all 3 guitars).
Thanks!

[AlexR]

Re: Preferred Pot Brands/Manufacturer?

As long as you pick audio taper and they are the right K rating I can't see how you could go wrong. I've had good tone with many different pot brands.

[CTN]

Re: Preferred Pot Brands/Manufacturer?

top of the line brands are CTS or Bourns.

Alpha are decent.

Bourns and Alpha turn much easier than the CTS pots, if you like pots that don't fight back when you want to adjust them. I believe the Fender pots are made by CTS.

[Diminished Triad]

Re: Preferred Pot Brands/Manufacturer?

As long as you pick audio taper and they are the right K rating I can't see how you could go wrong. I've had good tone with many different pot brands.

Thanks! Planning on 250 for the single coils and tele pickups and 500 for the humbuckers.

[Diminished Triad]

Re: Preferred Pot Brands/Manufacturer?

top of the line brands are CTS or Bourns.

Alpha are decent.

Bourns and Alpha turn much easier than the CTS pots, if you like pots that don't fight back when you want to adjust them. I believe the Fender pots are made by CTS.

Great! Thanks CTN....

[darthphineas]

Re: Preferred Pot Brands/Manufacturer?

Bourn and CTS are solid. Like already stated, it depends on the level of friction you prefer.


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[DeanSweden]

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[Inder_Cine_Mann]

Re: Preferred Pot Brands/Manufacturer?

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[Drunken Bowling]

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I have Alphas in my PRS. I like the way they turn. They have just enough give to not feel cheap. Soundwise, I can't really say. I know next to nothing about differences in pots soundwise, but I told a local tech that I wanted to change my pots from Alpha to CTS and he told me that Alphas are good pots and that I may not notice a difference in sound. And there isn't a huge difference in price between CTS and Alpha.

[Johnny the Kid]

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[CTN]

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I use Alphas in (I think) all my guitars, because I like the way they feel and electrically there really not much different than the CTS stuff. I've never seen any Bourns pots up here, and I couldn't be arsed to go out of my way to find a Bourns dealer in the States that's likely different from the usual places I get parts from.

[DeanSweden]

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never tried that. Good effect?

[Chocklit_Thunda]

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I use Alpha... I like Alpha.... They turn nicely and haven't conked out from the amount of volume swells I do when I get bored

[Snake Aces]

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I've never had a bad CTS pot, use them in all my guitars now

[Johnny the Kid]

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never tried that. Good effect?

It was a movie. I don't actually do it (my bassist does).