resistors and caps

[Sleeping Martyr]

Hey all, I needed some pickup help and figured that this was the way to go. I have an Andrson H3 in my Sg and e-mailed Tom Anderson with this problem:

"There is very liitle "clean up" when rolling down the volume pots (they are good 500k pots so thats not the problem) compared to my other guitars and when the volume is completely down the guitar can still be heard through the amp."

To which they replied:

"gibson often uses linear taper pots which do not have a uniform taper as they go down. as for not turning off, pots that have some end resistance do that, and a higher output pickup will make it sound worse because there is just more signal there. we use a 160k resister and a 680pf cap across the in and out of a 500k audio taper pot on our guitars. it gives a very nice taper and uniform tone as you roll the volume down. tom"

Now I'm just not sure where they intentd for me to put the damn things?? can someone please tell me where the in and out of the pot are and where I should solder the cap and resistor?? or if anyone else has any solutions to my problem that would be great too, thanks guys!!

 

[jeremy]

Re: resistors and caps

welcome to the forum!!

id check the ground on the volume pot, usually when the guitar doesnt turn off when the volume is down, there is a little bleed happening somewhere

as far as where to put the cap and resister, they should go across the first two tabs on the volume control. the third should be grounded to the pot casing. this is a treble bleed mod that will keep some high end in your tone as you turn it down.

if you have linear taper pots, i might switch to audio taper

 

[ES350]

Re: resistors and caps

Check the grounded pot lug---had just this problem on a tweed Pro last night; a bad solder connection making the thing go to 12 when you wiggled it.

 

[Sleeping Martyr]

Re: resistors and caps

Thanks guys I'll try that advice out, I don't know if they are linear or audio tapers pots, they aren't the originals they are replacements????