I've been attempting to do a treble bleed mod on my Charvel San Dimas. There is a problem with the taper of the volume control when I have this mod installed. Basically, the first half of the volume control does absolutely nothing and the last half starts to drop the volume, but in larger chunks. The difference between completely off and a notch higher is huge. I'd like to retain the full sweep of the volume knob, so I'm unsure what I'm doing wrong.
I have a .001uf capacitor with a 150 ohm, 1/4 watt resistor attached in parallel. The capacitor is then soldered to the middle and left lug of the volume pot (the right lug is grounded)
If I remove the resistor and just attach the capacitor, the volume sweep is as it normally is without the mod, however, lowering the volume with just the capacitor causes the sound to thin out tremendously. So, the resistor seems to be the culprit with this problem.
Can anyone tell if I'm doing something wrong? Maybe wrong values for the Cap or Resistor?
I have a .001uf capacitor with a 150 ohm, 1/4 watt resistor attached in parallel. The capacitor is then soldered to the middle and left lug of the volume pot (the right lug is grounded)
If I remove the resistor and just attach the capacitor, the volume sweep is as it normally is without the mod, however, lowering the volume with just the capacitor causes the sound to thin out tremendously. So, the resistor seems to be the culprit with this problem.
Can anyone tell if I'm doing something wrong? Maybe wrong values for the Cap or Resistor?
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