Please check this drawing

Gamlejohn

Gamlejohn

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I have had trouble matching the pickups in my American Telecaster. The bridge is an Antiquity I (flatpoles) and the neck is an Antiquity II Firebird minibucker.

Now I changed the pots to 500K and bypassed the tone control on the neck pickup. I did it like this:

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The two pickups match each other nicely now (the single coil is maybe a little brittle on the high strings), but the tone control for the single coil is not working like it used to. It doesn't do much in the first 1/4, and when it does work it cuts both highs and mids. It is pretty much useless.

I appreciate if you guys would look at my drawing and make some suggestions to what I could do better.

Thanks.
 
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larry_emder said:
Whats the resistor there for?
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I thought it would remove a little treble from the single coil.

I started wiring the guitar following the scematics for the American Telecaster HH on the Fender site. They put the resistor there.

That didn't give me enough treble on the minibucker, so I decided to bypass the tone control. I just kept the resistor in there. Should I take it out?

Since it's only the single coil that uses the tone pot, maybe I could change the 500K pot for the original 250K no-load pot. Would that be a good idea?
 
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You could try the 250k pot on the tone to round the tone off. Or you could try a 250k on the volume and 500k on the tone pot. I would take the resistor out and try it each way.

Remember that the higher the value tone pot the higher value tone capacitor you need. So if you had a .022 cap on a 250k pot you might need a .033 on a 500k. The opposite is true for lower value pots. There's no rules. Just what sounds good to you.
 
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Your drawing shows a .22uf cap. That should be .022uf. That will definitely cause problems.
 
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That is an odd problem. There's a couple things I'd try. First, just for troubleshooting purposes, I'd remove the resistor. It shouldn't cause that problem, but the one time I tried that "mod", I got some weird interaction problems.

Also, (and this shouldn't be related to your problem), I'd solder a ground wire connecting the back of the two pots. Or, move the output jack black wire over to the back of the volume pot. (Better.) As it is now, you're relying on the ground connection to be made down through the tone pot case tabs, to the shaft, across the Tele plate, up through the vol pot shaft, and through the volume pot case tabs. Those tabs aren't really good electrical connections. They weren't designed for that function.
 
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