Hello everybody
I am new to the forum and am hoping to get a bit of advice for my strat.
I have a cheap strat with a lot of sentimental value so I decided to upgrade the pick-ups and replace the wires, pots etc.
I decided to go for the Seymour Duncan SJB/SDBR/SL59 Set and went on a few forums and sites (I didn't know this one existed) looking for advice and was told that I would need 500k for the tone pots and 250k for the volume pot. I sent the guitar away the other day to get it all installed since I would set probably set my house on fire with my terrible soldering skills! After randomly finding this board yesterday, I saw a similar question about wiring one of the pick-ups and in a reply there was a wiring diagram attached which had all 250k pots.
Do I need 250k pots or will the 500k pots be better? What difference in sound should I expect if I go with the 500k versus the 250k and should I contact the luthier straight away to stop him from installing the 500k?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been really looking forward to playing this old strat again and would hate for it to sound like mud when I get it back
I am new to the forum and am hoping to get a bit of advice for my strat.
I have a cheap strat with a lot of sentimental value so I decided to upgrade the pick-ups and replace the wires, pots etc.
I decided to go for the Seymour Duncan SJB/SDBR/SL59 Set and went on a few forums and sites (I didn't know this one existed) looking for advice and was told that I would need 500k for the tone pots and 250k for the volume pot. I sent the guitar away the other day to get it all installed since I would set probably set my house on fire with my terrible soldering skills! After randomly finding this board yesterday, I saw a similar question about wiring one of the pick-ups and in a reply there was a wiring diagram attached which had all 250k pots.
Do I need 250k pots or will the 500k pots be better? What difference in sound should I expect if I go with the 500k versus the 250k and should I contact the luthier straight away to stop him from installing the 500k?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been really looking forward to playing this old strat again and would hate for it to sound like mud when I get it back
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