Tele Pot Choices - 250 or 500k

[vinnie1971]

Re: Tele Pot Choices - 250 or 500k

I think something like a broadcaster bridge and a little 59 neck would sound good. There's a real magic to single coil bridge and humbucker neck.


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[Chickenwings]

Re: Tele Pot Choices - 250 or 500k

To the op...if you want a nice true single in the bridge that has enough low end and heft to hang with a neck humbucker, the jerry donahue is an absolute cracker. The other advantage is that its tone curve means the amp settings you use will suit both pickups nicely.

 

[Clint 55]

Re: Tele Pot Choices - 250 or 500k

I played 1 meg pots on my sss strat for the 1st time today and they sounded good. Using higher value pots doesn't suddenly turn your pickups into a bunch of JBs, they're still your pickups, just there's no ceiling preventing the full signal of your pickups to get through the volume pot and out the jack. The pot doesn't ADD more high. You can always roll off treble with the tone pot if you choose. That being said I didn't notice much difference between the 500k pots and the 1 meg ones. I dig the 1 meg pots, they sound good and accurate. I also used a .047 cap together with the 1 meg pots for a wide range of tone control.

 

[Synapsys]

Re: Tele Pot Choices - 250 or 500k

On my my ESP LTD TE-212 I had installed a STK-T2b (Hot Lead Stack) and an APH-1n (Alnico II Pro), a Les Paul three-way position switch, and individual switches for each pickup for Series / Parallel / Split wiring. Some magic on the pots, allowing to select between 500k or 250k, depending whether in series or split, to try and catch some classic tones.

The Stack still gives a Tele character, although a modern one. Handles high gain very well, and the split mode gives a convincing Tele tone, altough not the real deal indeed. A2Pro is a dream on the neck, liquid solos just pour out, and parallel and split gives very usable tones, mainly in clean/ breakup.

 

[KNUCKLHEAD]

Re: Tele Pot Choices - 250 or 500k

I played 1 meg pots on my sss strat for the 1st time today and they sounded good. Using higher value pots doesn't suddenly turn your pickups into a bunch of JBs, they're still your pickups, just there's no ceiling preventing the full signal of your pickups to get through the volume pot and out the jack. The pot doesn't ADD more high. You can always roll off treble with the tone pot if you choose. That being said I didn't notice much difference between the 500k pots and the 1 meg ones. I dig the 1 meg pots, they sound good and accurate. I also used a .047 cap together with the 1 meg pots for a wide range of tone control.

^^-- INDEED = All pots read 0 resistance when opened up , it's the Increments in the sweep when rolled back . That's about it but i'm not out to jack up everyone's idealism on it . in other words ~ Better Increments the Higher the Value . Oh , but by all means - use the Audio (Log ) Taper for volume .

 

[Jacew]

Re: Tele Pot Choices - 250 or 500k

Inline resistance is not what makes higher value pots sound brighter, as post above suggests. Pot is essentially two variable resistors, other in signal line and other between ground and signal. With 500k pot fully open you get 500 kohm signal -> ground resistance etc... Signal bleeds to ground through pot, so higher resistance saves more of the original signal.

When you have separate volume and tone pot for you pickup, resistance is lowered: For instance 500k tone + 500k volume equals 250k signal -> ground resistance, same as with one 250k pot for pickup.