Help me de-mudify my bridge pickup when rolling the volume down.

[Diego]

I'm guessing it has something to do with the wiring of the tone pot, because it happens with both my pickups.
It doesn't bother me with the neck pickup, but I want to keep the bridge pickup as clear as a bell when rolling the volume back. I want to retain those highs.

My guitar has a 1 tone / 2 vol config, as you'll see below. Can I just wire the tone pot straight to the neck pickup and bypass the bridge, maybe?
Or it's easier to bypass it for both pickups and just use it for push-pull duties?

Please throw any ideas for this purpose, and if you could pretty please guide me on how to do it, even better. I'm clueless with schematics.



Excuse the terrible picture quality, but I'm awful at pictures in general and my cellphone has ZERO close-up qualities.
My old Galaxy S2 took much better pictures... *sigh*

Thanks!

 

[Brandenburg]

Re: Help me de-mudify my bridge pickup when rolling the volume down.

just wire the tone up to the neck volume.. no tone on the bridge



edit>> something like this.. I just drew this up.. sry no color as I was in a rush and i forgot to add some labels.. ******t.. ohh well..top hum is neck.. bottom is bridge

 

[dave74]

Re: Help me de-mudify my bridge pickup when rolling the volume down.

treble-bleed is what you need

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Help me de-mudify my bridge pickup when rolling the volume down.

Yah, that's exactly the situation a treble bleed was designed to remedy.

 

[Diego]

Re: Help me de-mudify my bridge pickup when rolling the volume down.

Wow. It seems simple enough that even I could do it.

In the meantime, I've disconnected the tone pot and things improved a lot when rolling back the volumes.
However, it's still not as good as my 1 humbucker, 1 volume guitar when rolling back.

Question: Would the treble-bleed mod improve things even further if I kept my tone pot disconnected?
I don't know if it's made for circuits with a tone pot somewhere, and frankly I don't think I'll miss my tone pot much.

I think I'll go to the electronics shop this week for a few resistors and capacitors... I hate soldering but I love the results.

As always, thank you guys!

 

[uOpt]

Re: Help me de-mudify my bridge pickup when rolling the volume down.

It is also possible that your volume pot is connected backwards (like in a Jazz bass), not like it is supposed to in a guitar with no blending. If the hot from the pickup goes to the middle lug it is backwards.

The backwards connection increases the load on the pickup dramatically compared to a normal pot connection when rolling down the pot even a little.

 

[Diego]

Re: Help me de-mudify my bridge pickup when rolling the volume down.

It is also possible that your volume pot is connected backwards (like in a Jazz bass), not like it is supposed to in a guitar with no blending. If the hot from the pickup goes to the middle lug it is backwards.

The backwards connection increases the load on the pickup dramatically compared to a normal pot connection when rolling down the pot even a little.

I just checked, and thankfully no. The middle lug is going to the switch, the inner lug is taking the hot signal, and the outer lug goes to the back of the pot.

I tried things a bit louder today, and despite the tone pot being fully out of the circuit, it's still taking away lots of highs when rolling the volume back.
It's improved a bit, but far from what I want.

Also, the split sounds are trebly as **** now. Goddamn. I guess I'll save them for special moments only or something.
They sound like I've plugged straight into a PA. It sounds horrible.

I guess reconnecting the tone pot + doing the treble-bleed in my bridge pickup would be the best compromise here.