Seymour Duncan 25k ohm potentiometers ?

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insidethegrave

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Hey,

I bought the Blackouts Modular Pre-amp to install it in a Gibson Flying V, as you should all know the Flying V has 2 Vol/1 Tone Pots, and the Blackouts Modular Pre-amp comes with 1 Vol Pot (the preamp) and 1 additional Vol/Tone pot.

So I checked the wiring diagrams and I saw there that I need 2 25k ohm Pots + the Preamp pot, so I already have 2 Pots (preamp pot and 1 vol/tone pot) how come Seymour Duncan didn't put an additional 25k ohm pot....., anyway...

Do you know if SD make 25k ohm pots ?, or have any of you tried the Blackout Modular Preamp with regular 250k ohm pots ?

Best Regards
 
Seymour Duncan 25k ohm potentiometers ?

Seymour doesn't even make the pots they use, they are probably hand selected CTS or bourns. Stew Mac, allparts or any decent online retailer can and will have them.
 
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Hey,

Thanks for the info. I live in Mexico and I've been trying to get them here (the 25k pots) and the only ones I found are a bit cheap.., to say the least.. so I gave a call yesterday to SD support and neither Keith (Marrow) or Scott were available, so I called a good repair shop I know and gave the tech the overall info, and he told me he can do this :

Use the Preamp pot for 1 Vol, then use the additional Pot (from the set) for the other Vol knob and leave the stock 500K pot for the Tone control, and he thinks that would work better.

What do you think ?
 
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Yes it works. Actually I use 500K volumn and tone pots for my EMGs in some of my guitars all the time simply because I'm lazy to swap them out. The sound difference is less noticable than replacing the 500K pots with 1M ones for passive pickups.

insidethegrave said:
Hey,

Thanks for the info. I live in Mexico and I've been trying to get them here (the 25k pots) and the only ones I found are a bit cheap.., to say the least.. so I gave a call yesterday to SD support and neither Keith (Marrow) or Scott were available, so I called a good repair shop I know and gave the tech the overall info, and he told me he can do this :

Use the Preamp pot for 1 Vol, then use the additional Pot (from the set) for the other Vol knob and leave the stock 500K pot for the Tone control, and he thinks that would work better.

What do you think ?
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Re: Seymour Duncan 25k ohm potentiometers ?

slayest said:
Yes it works. Actually I use 500K volumn and tone pots for my EMGs in some of my guitars all the time simply because I'm lazy to swap them out. The sound difference is less noticable than replacing the 500K pots with 1M ones for passive pickups.
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Only if the volume is on 10. The problem with using 500k pots with an active circuit is you lose the sweep it will act as an on off switch rather than being able to turn down the volume in small increments. If you play with the volume on 10 all the time the situation is OK but blackouts are capable of so much more I would just find the right pots they arent that rare.
 
Re: Seymour Duncan 25k ohm potentiometers ?

They are all over ebay, find someone who will ship to mexico, most parts places will i'm sure as well, personally i hate more than one volume and never use my tone knob. just put a kill switch in there.
 
Re: Seymour Duncan 25k ohm potentiometers ?

I can't say that the 500K will sweep the volume as smooth as a 25K pot. But you won't find any trouble if you want your guitar to fade out at the end of a song, or try to find a sweet position to clean-up the pickup for a less distorted crunch tone. At least it works for my EMG81, 85 and a Duncan custom shop active pickup. Not sure about the Blackouts and the EMG X-series whose impedance is much different than that of the old EMGs'.

Edgecrusher said:
Only if the volume is on 10. The problem with using 500k pots with an active circuit is you lose the sweep it will act as an on off switch rather than being able to turn down the volume in small increments. If you play with the volume on 10 all the time the situation is OK but blackouts are capable of so much more I would just find the right pots they arent that rare.
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Re: Seymour Duncan 25k ohm potentiometers ?

insidethegrave said:
Hey,

I bought the Blackouts Modular Pre-amp to install it in a Gibson Flying V, as you should all know the Flying V has 2 Vol/1 Tone Pots, and the Blackouts Modular Pre-amp comes with 1 Vol Pot (the preamp) and 1 additional Vol/Tone pot.

So I checked the wiring diagrams and I saw there that I need 2 25k ohm Pots + the Preamp pot, so I already have 2 Pots (preamp pot and 1 vol/tone pot) how come Seymour Duncan didn't put an additional 25k ohm pot....., anyway...

Do you know if SD make 25k ohm pots ?, or have any of you tried the Blackout Modular Preamp with regular 250k ohm pots ?

Best Regards
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Hi there,

We can send you another 25K pot no problem, can you PM me your address & phone and I'll get that taken care of.
 
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