Disabling the tone pot: How to do it?

Petrovsk Mizinski

Petrovsk Mizinski

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Sorry if this sounds like a n00b question, but I did a search and found nothing that really explained it (maybe I'm a search n00b:laugh:).
Is it as simple as just removing/desoldering the wires from the tone pot?
 
Re: Disabling the tone pot: How to do it?

Just cut and lift the leg of the capacitor between the pot and ground :)
 
Re: Disabling the tone pot: How to do it?

Okay, more serious n00b alert coming:laugh2:
Connected to the tonepot in my Ibanez, is one wire but it splits, one goes onto the pot itself, and the other bit connects onto a plastic, green looking thing. I assume that plastic, greenish thing would be the capacitor since it's basically right next to the pot?
 
Re: Disabling the tone pot: How to do it?

Yeah, that sounds like the capacitor :) There're different sorts, but if you put 'capacitor' into google images, you should be able to verify what you're looking at easily enough. You can desolder the capacitor, or just cut it out, and the tonepot'll be disconnected.
 
Re: Disabling the tone pot: How to do it?

if you remove the cap you could use that pot as another volume control (for another pickup) too
 
Re: Disabling the tone pot: How to do it?

^So if I used it as another volume control, as long as the cap is removed I still get the effect of more treble response from effectively removing the tone control from the circuit?
 
Re: Disabling the tone pot: How to do it?

sorry. what i mean is if your gui has 2 pickups, 1 master vol and 1 master tone, you can connect the neck to one and the bridge to another (no cap anywhere), and then the pots go to the selector switch and then the jack.

you might want to compare a couple wiring diagrams, it's difficult to explain (for me, anyway)
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Re: Disabling the tone pot: How to do it?

Why would you want to disable the tone pot? You could have a "no-load" tone pot and not lose any treble. Also if you just don't like the sound of your tone knob anywhere but all the way up, try replacing the $.50 capacitor in there with a paper-and-oil capacitor from Luxe for $17. I did and I could not believe the difference. Night and day. I have never ever before used my tone control, but now it's awesome! The entire spectrum of tone is useful now.

You also can buy a $50 Redeemer Circuit from Creative Audio Labs that will give you back all your treble and bass (and then some) to get your pickup's true tone that you've never heard before.
 
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