Best Volume Pot Value, Treble Bleed Circuit Etc. For Swells

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For ages I've tried to use the guitar's volume pot for volume swells but with limited success. Is there any trick to pulling this off? I've been reading old posts and haven't found anything concise. So far I'm under the assumption treble bleed mods don't help but I'm not 100% sure.

Currently everything has humbuckers with standard issue A500k volume pots. No treble bleed mods.

I am getting the impression this works better with single coils. Reading old posts leads me to believe gradual swells work better on strats & teles.

At some point I'll get another volume pedal. Thing is, I've had only slightly better success with them. Never quite had one I was totally pleased with. Granted, I've never owned an Ernie Ball and that seems to be the Rolls Royce of volume pedals.
 
Re: Best Volume Pot Value, Treble Bleed Circuit Etc. For Swells

I always use a treble bleed with a audio taper pot. It's more consistent than using a linear taper pot. To me it sounds like a treble bleed will help quite a bit.
 
Re: Best Volume Pot Value, Treble Bleed Circuit Etc. For Swells

PK: What values for the cap & resistors? Do you use the kinman style wiring?
 
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Re: Best Volume Pot Value, Treble Bleed Circuit Etc. For Swells

Isn't the kinman series and the duncan style parallel? I well could be mistaken.
 
Re: Best Volume Pot Value, Treble Bleed Circuit Etc. For Swells

I use humbuckers with the YJM pots, and it works great. No treble bleed anything.
 
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