500K pots for Stacked Single coils?

[wixomwhat]

I would assume that you would normally use 500K pots for stacked singles like for Strat, tele, etc.

But my question is- what If i use a Dimarzio HS3(stacked single coil) in the bridge of my Strat and and for the neck and middle I want to use real single coils (well... fender noiseless single coils).

do I use 3 500K pots? or 3 250K pots? or maybe even set it up for something more complicated like 1 500K volume pot for the bridge, 1 250K volume shared by neck and middle and the 3rd pot could be a 250K tone pot.

what do you guys think?

 

[TheArchitect]

Re: 500K pots for Stacked Single coils?

500k should be fine for everything. Dimarzio recommends 500k for their VV series and I would imagine that would be true of the HS3 as well. The Fender noiseless I have came with 1meg pots but I hear more recently thay are using 500k as well.

I would go with 500k myself.

 

[Boston Joe]

Re: 500K pots for Stacked Single coils?

I've always used 250k pots for HS pickups as they give a nice warm punch to them-- maybe the 500k will work, but when I split the HS-2 and 3 pickups, the 250k really adds that single coil sparkle.

 

[wixomwhat]

Re: 500K pots for Stacked Single coils?

Thanks for the info guys

 

[Farkus]

Re: 500K pots for Stacked Single coils?

I always used 250K pots with the HS-series. When I used the 500K they sounded to thin to me.

Mark

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: 500K pots for Stacked Single coils?

As you get above 10k for a single coil its ok to use 500k pots. Usually the bass response is stronger as resistance increases. Although you may want to stick with 250k pots for tone.

Snowdog