I have blackouts and they are pretty good but I just keep thinking that it can be better. I don't want to grab a new set of pickups I simply just want to see if I can just change the Potentiometers out and get something different that might be what I've been missing open to any suggestions oh yes the original Potentiometers are 250k
vol & tone hot rodding 4 Active
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cakire82
Cake Mire
Re: vol & tone hot rodding 4 Active
I think blackouts are designed to be used with 25K pots. You might want to give it try
http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/products/electric/humbuckers/501020-110.pdf
I think blackouts are designed to be used with 25K pots. You might want to give it try
http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/products/electric/humbuckers/501020-110.pdf
cakire82
Cake Mire
SwedishHumbucker
New member
Re: vol & tone hot rodding 4 Active
Get some nice PIO caps, 0,022uF for the bridge and 0,015uF for the neck.
Visit www.tonemojo.com Jonesy is a great guy and i know he has made some EMG kit before with nice PIO caps
If you only wan´t the pio caps i think he sells 2 for about 15US Dollars
Get some nice PIO caps, 0,022uF for the bridge and 0,015uF for the neck.
Visit www.tonemojo.com Jonesy is a great guy and i know he has made some EMG kit before with nice PIO caps
If you only wan´t the pio caps i think he sells 2 for about 15US Dollars
Zerberus
Baron Von Shred
Re: vol & tone hot rodding 4 Active
^^ I recommend if you´re going to go about swapping cap values, buy 50 cent caps first before investing 30x as much into whjat may or may not improve anything (IMO more likely not, but I´ll get into that in a second). The large difference in cap value will have a much larger impact than a different build type.
That said, replacing a .47µF with a .022µF or a .015µF cap will massively reduce the amount of treble you can roll off using the pot. TBH if I were using values that low on actives I´d personally just leave the pot out completely.
BTW Swedish, the caps that I have here next to me from a generation 1 set of Blackouts ARE Paper-in-Oil. Are you just suggesting that he switch to what he already has, or is there method behind what appear to be infeasibly low pot values? I mean, .022 is less than 5% of .47, sounds more like a "roll the edge off" knob than a tone control to me... But if you´ve prior experience w/ such values and actives I´d love to hear it. :beerchug:
I think what would be much more helpful than people making random suggestions woud be to know what exactly you would like to hear more of, or less of, from your current setup.
^^ I recommend if you´re going to go about swapping cap values, buy 50 cent caps first before investing 30x as much into whjat may or may not improve anything (IMO more likely not, but I´ll get into that in a second). The large difference in cap value will have a much larger impact than a different build type.
That said, replacing a .47µF with a .022µF or a .015µF cap will massively reduce the amount of treble you can roll off using the pot. TBH if I were using values that low on actives I´d personally just leave the pot out completely.
BTW Swedish, the caps that I have here next to me from a generation 1 set of Blackouts ARE Paper-in-Oil. Are you just suggesting that he switch to what he already has, or is there method behind what appear to be infeasibly low pot values? I mean, .022 is less than 5% of .47, sounds more like a "roll the edge off" knob than a tone control to me... But if you´ve prior experience w/ such values and actives I´d love to hear it. :beerchug:
I think what would be much more helpful than people making random suggestions woud be to know what exactly you would like to hear more of, or less of, from your current setup.
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