Bypass Tone to Make Humbucker Brighter

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Esseff

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I have a Tele with a single coil bridge and humbucker neck. The humbucker is very warm sounding and I was wondering if I could brighten it up by bypassing the Tone control just on the humbucker?
Will this work?

It has a lot of fancy wiring (Grease Bucket on the Tone, push-pull coil tap also on the Tone) so I'm not keen to swap the pickup at this stage.

Just looking for a simple way to brighten it up without messing with too much of the wiring.

Thx
 
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Re: Bypass Tone to Make Humbucker Brighter

Yes, stick the tone to where the bridge pickup attaches to the switch.
 
Re: Bypass Tone to Make Humbucker Brighter

I do that all the times with my Les Pauls. But there a thing you can do to lessen low mids and bass like putting a tone cap in series with the humbucker. This is rolling off the lower frequencies of the humbucker.
 
Re: Bypass Tone to Make Humbucker Brighter

Esseff said:
I have a Tele with a single coil bridge and humbucker neck. The humbucker is very warm sounding and I was wondering if I could brighten it up by bypassing the Tone control just on the humbucker?
Will this work?

It has a lot of fancy wiring (Grease Bucket on the Tone, push-pull coil tap also on the Tone) so I'm not keen to swap the pickup at this stage.

Just looking for a simple way to brighten it up without messing with too much of the wiring.

Thx
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Yes, it definitely works and is and especially good choice in my opinion when mixing a humbucker with singles in a guitar with 250k pots. When I converted my Strat from SSS to HSS I was concerned that the load of two 250k pots would make the bucker too dark. But it sounds great with just the load of the volume pot.
 
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