Using two no-load pots and dual capacitors

[TimBo266]

Somewhere I saw a schematic where two no-loads were being used. The neck and center shared the same pot and capacitor and the bridge had its own pot and capacitor. Of course there was only one volume control with a normal pot. This was not a blender type design. Does anyone know about this schematic? Is anyone using this setup in their strat now? I did find the schematic with all normal pots and wired as I described above. But I am curious if simply switching out the two normal pots for no-load pots would work right? Help?

update... yes it is a Stratocaster

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Using two no-load pots and dual capacitors

You mean for a strat?

Just do this to put tone 2 on the bridge and tone 1 on the neck/mid:





I don't do this right now. The only problem with the idea is that when you select the mid and bridge position (pos 2) you will load it with two tone pots . . . which might make it sound a bit darker than you like.

That's why many people will just wire the bridge to tone 2 and the neck to tone 1, leaving the middle pickup wide open (same diagram, just get rid of that tiny jumper wire). That's what I'm currently doing, with different capacitors for the bridge and the neck tone pots.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Using two no-load pots and dual capacitors

Oh wait, you said no load pots? Yeah, if you're using no load pots there will be no problem with the wiring you're suggesting. If the tone on pos2 is too dark you can just click one (or both) of the pots out of the circuit.