Pots for HSS?

[Spudman]

I've got a guitar that has a swamp ash body and rosewood neck. It came stock with a TB-4 in the bridge and 2 Vintage Staggered Duncan pickups in the middle and neck.
I've always thought the single coils sounded too bright, uncomfortably bright. I own several Strats and nothing else I have is that bright / glassy / shrill.
I have to replace the Push/Pull pot in the tone position, and I'm wondering if I should replace the volume pot with a 250. There is a 500 in there now.
Would this mess up the sound of the JB? Would it make the Vintage Staggered sound less brittle? What say ye?

 

[idsnowdog]

You can use a 500K pot and add a 500K resistor for the middle/neck so it will see a 250K pot.

 

[Spudman]

That sounds like a good idea. Thanks.
Where would that resistor be wired?

 

[idsnowdog]

You can see a Tele example here you just run a resistor from the hot lug on the switch for each single coil to ground. When the pickup is selected 500K + 500K = 250 ohms. https://www.fralinpickups.com/2018/1...n-guitars-101/

 

[Mr. B]

They also make 300K pots, which I think work pretty well for singles and humbuckers like the JB.

 

[Mincer]

I'd do a 500k pot for volume, 250k for the singles' tone, and 500k for the bridge tone.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

JB does very well with a 250K volume pot, especially in a 25½" scale guitar.

 

[SFW]

509 Customs (I think that is their name) makes a wiring harness for an HSS strat where the singles see 250 and the bucket see 500. Works very well.


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[ThreeChordWonder]

I'd do a 500k pot for volume, 250k for the singles' tone, and 500k for the bridge tone.

This.

If you're using a blender instead of a second tone, use a superswitch you might be able to wire in a 500k resistor in parallel so the tone pot acts as a 500k in P1, possibly P1 and P2 if you wanted, but as a 250k in P3, P4 and P5, or you could use a push-pull to add or cut out the 500k resistor.