This is a bit of a mess...
In my custom H-S-S Charvel, I have the '59/Custom Hybrid in the bridge, with a Triple Shot pickup ring, SD stacked strat pickups (I forget which ones exactly, but they're measuring around 12.4/12.5 DCR), I believe a 500k tone pot, I forget what value capacitor, a 1M volume pot with a push-push switch to wire the middle and neck pickup in series, and a blower switch.
I did have a treble bleed on the volume pot, which worked very nicely for a while. I rewire this guitar pretty often to try new things, so it's hard to place when exactly this started, but the treble bleed was in, and I noticed a huge drop in treble if the volume goes below 9. Around 5, it almost sounds as though the tone pot has been rolled down some. This was happening even with the treble bleed installed. I thought maybe I had done something wrong with that, so I took it out, and it didn't seem to make any difference.
I'm pretty confident the volume pot is an audio taper, but I don't know what ratio, and I can't find the exact model that it is. I think it came from Allparts. The taper sounds relatively even as far as volume of frequencies below 1.2kHz-ish, but there's no exact science done there.
I most likely wired something up wrong, and should just take everything out and rewire it from scratch, but I wanted to see if any potential issue jumps out at you guys. What could cause such a drastic drop in treble with a slight turn of the volume pot?
Thanks!
In my custom H-S-S Charvel, I have the '59/Custom Hybrid in the bridge, with a Triple Shot pickup ring, SD stacked strat pickups (I forget which ones exactly, but they're measuring around 12.4/12.5 DCR), I believe a 500k tone pot, I forget what value capacitor, a 1M volume pot with a push-push switch to wire the middle and neck pickup in series, and a blower switch.
I did have a treble bleed on the volume pot, which worked very nicely for a while. I rewire this guitar pretty often to try new things, so it's hard to place when exactly this started, but the treble bleed was in, and I noticed a huge drop in treble if the volume goes below 9. Around 5, it almost sounds as though the tone pot has been rolled down some. This was happening even with the treble bleed installed. I thought maybe I had done something wrong with that, so I took it out, and it didn't seem to make any difference.
I'm pretty confident the volume pot is an audio taper, but I don't know what ratio, and I can't find the exact model that it is. I think it came from Allparts. The taper sounds relatively even as far as volume of frequencies below 1.2kHz-ish, but there's no exact science done there.
I most likely wired something up wrong, and should just take everything out and rewire it from scratch, but I wanted to see if any potential issue jumps out at you guys. What could cause such a drastic drop in treble with a slight turn of the volume pot?
Thanks!
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