Tone controls acting like volumes! Need Help!

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Hello to all. I have installed CTS 250k linear taper potentiometers stated for tone control only, yet after installation, they operate like volume controls. I'm using a .22 cap jumped across both. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
 
Re: Tone controls acting like volumes! Need Help!

Obviously wired incorrectly. Give us a diagram of how you wired them and we can help you. Also tell us about your guitar...H-H type?, 2 vol, 2 tone? You sure that cap is a .22, not a .022?
 
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silly question:

now that your tone pots act like volume pots, do your volume pots act like tone pots?

Just thinking something through.
 
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I just asked a similar question here. It seems that the simple answer is that your capacitor is being bypassed somehow, either due to a short around it, or because the cap itself has simply stopped working. I'd check the cap's condition first of all, and look for incorrect wiring or poor solder joints.
 
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Re: Tone controls acting like volumes! Need Help!

ItsaBass said:
I just asked a similar question here. It seems that the simple answer is that your capacitor is being bypassed somehow, either due to a short around it, or because the cap itself has simply stopped working. I'd check the cap's condition first of all, and look for incorrect wiring or poor solder joints.
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I'll try switching caps and see what happends.
 
Re: Tone controls acting like volumes! Need Help!

leg of cap touching grounded tone pot body

you do have your tone pots grounded right?
 
Re: Tone controls acting like volumes! Need Help!

Ran into this very same problem tonight when I was rewiring a single volume single tone. I had copper shielded the cavity and when I tightened up the tone control, it grounded out and made the tone a volume ( I just turned the pot a bit, re-tightened, and tone control again)
Just thought I'd pass on that possibility too.
 
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