Originally posted by Top-L
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A 500K volume pot without a tone pot does not result in a 500K volume pot becoming, in effect, a 1 Meg volume pot.
It's still a 500K volume pot with 500K of resistance.
What you experienced is simply that a guitar without a tone pot that is leaking some treble to ground all the time, has MORE TREBLE because MORE TREBLE stays in the signal path instead of leaking to ground through the tone pot.
Even when the tone pot is on "10".
That and the fact (to me!) that the a Custom 5 is too bright.
I'm sure Seymour or whoever created the Duncan Custom tried the Duncan Custom with an A5 magnet and decided against it.
But forum members here experimenting with magnet swaps tried it, liked it, lobbied for it and the next thing you know we had a Duncan Custom 5 as part of the line up.
I hate that pickup with 500K pots. Hurts my ears. Just no fun.
So does a JB with 500K pots.
Seymour uses a JB in his Tele, but with 250K pots.
So what you've discovered is that you ALSO prefer 250K pots when your guitar has extremely bright or sharp sounding pickups.
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