Recent content by HealthyNormal

I know, I know, another one of those potentiometer threads ;) Okay, so I've just recently decided to put a Hot Rails into the neck position of my Strat along with a Cool Rails in the middle. I have a JB in the bridge along with all 250k pots at the moment. I'm thinking that the 250k pots will...

I (currently) have a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge position in my Strat and I was looking for two single-coil pickups to replace the middle and neck positions' pups so that I would be able to use high gain on those positions as well as the bridge. I found two replacement pickups from Dimarzio...

Alright, I have an HSS Strat with a JB in the bridge and 2 stock single coils in the neck and middle. I'm looking for single coils or single coil sized humbuckers to put in either slot. I have a alder body Strat with a rosewood fretboard and maple neck. I play mostly old skool metal (Metallica...

I'm not sure whether to post this beast into this category or in the other one (Guitar Shop) because of how it fits both sorta... Anyway! I'm in a rut here trying to figure out whether or not to wire my JB in the bridge position of my Strat to my middle single coil's tone pot (where they both...

When can/should you use a 500K vs. a 250K volume pot? Like what's the difference on volume? I kinda get how the tone knob would work on 250K and 500K, like where 250K is better for single coils because the latter would brighten it up wayyy too much, while the 250K holds back a humbucker I...

Yesterday I installed a Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker into my Fender Standard Stratocaster. I wired the pickup in like it said in the wiring diagram that came with it, but now the middle pickup won't work (i.e. it's really weak and quiet now). I followed Fender's diagram for the rest of the...