Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

[appar111]

Anyone here running Choppers in a strat (neck and bridge)? I'm assuming that they'll need 500K pots. I'm usually a single volume knob guy though-- would the Choppers sound good with 500K tone pots as well?

Alot of times I find that even just having the tone pots hooked up, even turned up all the way, take away too much rawness from the sound. Granted, I usually use humbuckers... but the Chopper is a humbucker, so that's why I ask.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

I used to run them neck/Middle in a Kramer Striker with an X2N bridge.

I do recommend 500k pots for them. As for the tone, only if you want to lower the treble. I never did in those positions. I had it wired for a Master tone.

 

[appar111]

Re: Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

yeah, I might just get a single 500K tone pot for both of them. I'd be running a Blackmore type setup with no pickup in the middle. I'd be ordering a custom guard from Warmoth anyway, I'll probably have it cut for singles at neck and bridge (nothing in the middle), blade style pickup selector and volume and tone 2 holes (i.e. no tone 1 spot).

 

[phred]

Re: Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

I have a Chopper T in my Pine Tele and I'm running a 300k volume and 250k tone.

 

[papersoul]

Re: Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

Anyone here running Choppers in a strat (neck and bridge)? I'm assuming that they'll need 500K pots. I'm usually a single volume knob guy though-- would the Choppers sound good with 500K tone pots as well?

Alot of times I find that even just having the tone pots hooked up, even turned up all the way, take away too much rawness from the sound. Granted, I usually use humbuckers... but the Chopper is a humbucker, so that's why I ask.

What did you end up doing? I have the Chopper in my strat bridge and ordered two Dimarzio Cruisers bridge pickups for the middle and neck, using all 500K pots. A strat should be brighter than my PRS and Gibsons. I am going to do Dimarzio's wiring which is 3HB's with a tone knob for the bridge Chopper pickup.

-Rich

 

[appar111]

Re: Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

I ended up going w/ a custom strat pickguard that just has a strat single rout for the bridge (reverse angled)-- no other pickup routs. I ended up putting a 500K volume and a 250K tone pot in there, but recently took the tone pot out as it seemed to choke the tone a bit, even up all the way. Right now it has a Dimarzio Pro Track in the bridge, but I'm thinking of swapping it out for a Chopper I ended up getting used. (never followed thru on the dual Choppers).

I also have a Dimarzio exchange on the way to me-- a Fast Track 1. If the Chopper doesn't have enough bite for me, I'll swap the Fast Track 1 in there. I got a feeling the Chopper's gonna rock hard though!

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

I'd be running a Blackmore type setup with no pickup in the middle.

I do this on practically all of my Strats,n & b only,3-way sw,500k master vol.
I love the FT-2 @ the br,but have a Chopper & Pro Track in the neck postions of a couple.
Have/had a custom wound "Hot Chopper" that I got off eBay years ago,but it was really noisy/malfunctioning...

 

[tubecrunch]

Re: Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

"No load" tone pot

 

[appar111]

Re: Dimarzio Chopper - 500K pots? and does it need a tone pot?

thanks, tubecrunch-- I don't know why I always forget about no-load tone pots! I wish they made ones that weren't so stiff-turning! I tend to like really fast turning pots, especially to get neck pickup-like rolled off sounds quickly out of the bridge pickup.