Re: 500k or 250k pot for a Li'l Screaming Demon?
Thanks Artie and Troy!
Seems like a nice place.
The guitar is a 1973 Strat with alder body and rose/maple neck. 73 was the last year Fender used the 60's style pickups on the Strats and I love those for certain sounds.
The guitar is great for SRV and Jimi sounds and funky rythms, but it doesn't like to be overdriven too much.
I mainly use the neck and the neck/mid position apart from when I am using it for clean "rythmic" stuff where I am using the mid/bridge setting, so the bridge pickup doesn't get used much.
Then one day I did a recording in my studio where the guitarist had a home made strat with a rose/maple Warmoth neck and home made body of honduran mahogany. The pickups where a trio of Li'l Screeming Demons
He used one of my amps and the overdriven and the distorted sounds were amazing.
My Strats alder body is brighter and tighter that a mahogany strat body which is fatter, but I've been thinking about trying that pickup ever since and now I've bought one.
So by adding a Li'l Screeming Demon at the bridge I would still have all the Strat sounds I liked and get like a second guitar for high gain playing.
Since I am mainly a Les Paul player I am used to be able to blend in the neck pickup with the bridge pickup so I thought I should rewire the whole thing now when I am changing the bridge pickup to this Li'l Screeming Demon.
The way it will be wired the 250 pot for the neck and mid pickups will be out of the circuit when I am selecting the bridge pickup. The only time when both volume pots will be connected at the same time will be whan I am mixing the bridge pickup with the others.
So that's why I can chose either 500k or 250k for the bridge pickup without "ruin" the other pickups sounds.
OK, so you are sure SD recommends 250s? It make sence because it's a direct replacment for a strat pickup, but on the other hand I never seen a humbucker which liked a 250k load.
/R
