UCSDBoy
New member
Hi guys,
I want to load out a new pickguard for one of my strats, by taking the neck and middle APS-1s from one strat, and the Custom Custom bridge HB from another. I don't figure the CC is going to be like the JB, and handle 250k pots that well, however. Since I want to try and keep the resonant peaks for all three pickups roughly where they should be, I'm thinking of installing two concentric pots (one 250k, and one 500k).
This would give a master volume and tone for the neck and middle single coils, and a separate master volume/tone for the bridge HB. What do you guys think? I do tend to use both volume and tone, so simulating them on full with a resister isn't really desirable. My thinking is it will really tweak the sound of position 4, since the middle pickup and the bridge coil (I'll be doing an auto-split) would have 4 pots on them! I don't think that would be a big deal, since I find position 2 and 4 to be fairly similar, and I always prefer position 2, personally. Maybe it'll make position 4 more useful for me, I don't know.
However, I'd like to hear what you guys think.
I want to load out a new pickguard for one of my strats, by taking the neck and middle APS-1s from one strat, and the Custom Custom bridge HB from another. I don't figure the CC is going to be like the JB, and handle 250k pots that well, however. Since I want to try and keep the resonant peaks for all three pickups roughly where they should be, I'm thinking of installing two concentric pots (one 250k, and one 500k).
This would give a master volume and tone for the neck and middle single coils, and a separate master volume/tone for the bridge HB. What do you guys think? I do tend to use both volume and tone, so simulating them on full with a resister isn't really desirable. My thinking is it will really tweak the sound of position 4, since the middle pickup and the bridge coil (I'll be doing an auto-split) would have 4 pots on them! I don't think that would be a big deal, since I find position 2 and 4 to be fairly similar, and I always prefer position 2, personally. Maybe it'll make position 4 more useful for me, I don't know.
However, I'd like to hear what you guys think.
