Strat bridge tone mod ????

[Oldslowhand]

Does anybody Know if you can use a push/pull pot to swop between the middle & bridge so that if you pull up the tone pot for middle P/up you could get it to change to the bridge or how to get a tone for the bridge P/up without adding another pot :damnit:

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Strat bridge tone mod ????

Does anybody Know if you can use a push/pull pot to swop between the middle & bridge so that if you pull up the tone pot for middle P/up you could get it to change to the bridge or how to get a tone for the bridge P/up without adding another pot :damnit:

You can if you replace one of your tone pots with a 250K push/pull pot.

Or just unsolder the tone control leading to the middle pickup on your 5 way switch and move it to the terminal for your bridge pickup. Who uses the middle pickup by itself anyway? Hardly anyone!

Your guitar will sound better when the neck and middle pickups are combined too!

WHY? Because when you combine your neck and middle pickups together in a conventionaly wired Strat with a tone control for the neck and a tone control for the middle you ALSO combine the two tone pots. Two 250 K pots in parallel are sort of like a single 125K tone pot...and that's sort of like having your two tone controls turned down 1/2 way!

Lew