Please help! / Pots Question Vintage+Humbucker

[tone?]

i recently put together a USACG guitar and it rocks.

it is H/S/S and has a 500k volume pot and two 250k tone pots and one five way switch.

i actually have just the volume hooked up and not the tone pots cause i think that this messes up the sound of the humbucker.

the question is that i want the single coils to sound vintage ( as using a 250k pot) so what do i do without messing up the 250k?

i have used the 500k with the 250k with a 22u capacitor but i didnt like it. the humbucker sounded too dark.

what do i do to make the humbucker sound like it is used with a 500k pot and the singles with a 250k pot??


any ideas?

i have seen that at Tom Anderson guitars they have a vintage voicing circut that solves the problem but dont say what they use.

 

[tone?]

Re: Please help! / Pots Question Vintage+Humbucker

bump

 

[tone?]

Re: Please help! / Pots Question Vintage+Humbucker

come on, someone help?

 

[knucklefux]

Re: Please help! / Pots Question Vintage+Humbucker

if you thought the humbucker sounded too dark, it had nothing to do with the 250k pots. it was the capacitor. i'm not sure if i have it the right way, but i think that for a brighter tone, you need a smaller cap, ie 15-18u. i do know that changing the value of the cap will have an affect on the tone, i just can't remember which way is which. it's just an idea...hope it helps some.

 

[Artie]

Re: Please help! / Pots Question Vintage+Humbucker

i have used the 500k with the 250k with a 22u capacitor but i didnt like it. the humbucker sounded too dark.

I'm hoping that was a "typo". A .022uf cap would be what you want. The larger the cap value, the more highs, and mids, that get shunted to ground.

An actual 22uf cap would send all the signal to ground, making the tone control a volume control.