Seymour Duncan Liberator

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Jolly there's something you'll appreciate in the first video. Can you spot it?
 
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The "S" pot in the photo is the Seymour Duncan pot that currently comes on our prewired pickguard. It's made for us by Bourns, to our specs, and it's the large size. We'll start selling them too at some point. For now they're being consumed by the pickuards and the upcoming prewired harnesses.

The Liberator's volume pot, on the other hand, while also made by Bourns, is the smaller sized can (also to our specs) so that it fits into more guitars. I think it looks bigger than it is in the image. This thing will fit into Tele cavities and Jazz basses too. The yellow Ibanez is pretty small and it fits in there with plenty of room.

The shaft on all of them is plenty long for a rear routed cavity, but a true long shaft for LP's will be released in the future.
 
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Sounds almost perfect for what I have in mind.

How is the taper for rolling back?
 
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Wow, I'm glad to see they are made by Bournes. Frank, are there any plans for a low-friction pot like the EVH one? I'm really enjoying mine but I suspect I'll probably wear it out and if I have to buy another one, I'd like to get it from you guys.
 
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Sounds almost perfect for what I have in mind.

How is the taper for rolling back?

If it's comparable to my low-fric Bournes pot, it is VERY linear. It's, by far, the most linear-acting pot I've used and rolls back very nicely. No "hot spots" and nothing weird like most of the CTS pots I've used.
 
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Funny you should ask, there's a special potentiometer on the YJM prewired pickguard that might interest you.
 
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Sounds almost perfect for what I have in mind.

How is the taper for rolling back?

Well, we like it. Seymour likes Bourns pots and has the old sealed blue ones in his Tele Gib.

They're great people, great to deal with, and willing to make us what we spec.
I've been using both the high speed (looser feel) and the Seymour Duncan (smoother feel) for over a year now and every time I have one of my guitars open I swap the pot for these.
 
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I don't think this product is necessarily for "ddummies," although it would certainly be welcome for those among us who don't like to solder or don't trust their soldering.

I see it as a big convenience for someone like me who goes through pickups like beers at a frat party. Saves me time, and saves me the hassle of undoing and redoing my wiring just to see if I like a pickup or not.

If a lot of us get these, I can see sending pickups to each other, just to try, more frequently, since there is a much lower risk of screwing anything up / eating up the leads with this pot.

Nice going, Frank and whoever else!

This. I need to get a bunch of these liberator pots. Just too bad we didn't have this 20 years ago.
 
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This is so awesome!!! If the pots are of CTS quality and taper it has to be a total win.
 
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I think this is a great product and will really help a lot of folks. But - you Duncan guys should at least search "Liberator" on google, or at least Amazon, before saddling your product with that name.
 
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LOL, you guys need to get the sand out of your... I was kidding.

I can't wait to hear the tone purists discussion on this.

I am sexcited for the SD/Bournes pots though, hopefully SD will charge less than $15 per pot like EVH is, I need 3 right now, GET 'EM OUT!
 
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