What exactly does the Fralin blender pot do?
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Re: What exactly does the Fralin blender pot do?
Just a volume pot converted to no load. No load isn't absolutely necessary for a blender pot. You'll prob get a little bleed thru from the unselected pup if you use a standard pot used as a blender tho.
It gradually blends in the bridge or neck pup with whatever else is selected. A switch will bring the whole pup in at once. Just convert the bottom pot on a strat or pick up a pot.
Neat little deal and real easy to make. Here's the link:
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/pots.htm
Just a volume pot converted to no load. No load isn't absolutely necessary for a blender pot. You'll prob get a little bleed thru from the unselected pup if you use a standard pot used as a blender tho.
It gradually blends in the bridge or neck pup with whatever else is selected. A switch will bring the whole pup in at once. Just convert the bottom pot on a strat or pick up a pot.
Neat little deal and real easy to make. Here's the link:
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/pots.htm
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: What exactly does the Fralin blender pot do?
as i understand it, it allows you to variably 'blend' the amount of signal that each of two pickups send to the combined output ... so you can have 25% bridge pup and 75% neck pup (instead of strict 50%-50% that a switch would give) or 33% neck pickup and 67% bridge pickup, etc ...
t4d
as i understand it, it allows you to variably 'blend' the amount of signal that each of two pickups send to the combined output ... so you can have 25% bridge pup and 75% neck pup (instead of strict 50%-50% that a switch would give) or 33% neck pickup and 67% bridge pickup, etc ...
t4d
chill
New member
Re: What exactly does the Fralin blender pot do?
It blends the neck and bridge pups in parallel.
See Fralin's blender schematic
It blends the neck and bridge pups in parallel.
See Fralin's blender schematic
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: What exactly does the Fralin blender pot do?
Let me just expand on this a bit. If you use the blend pot on the bridge, the neck will always be on at 100%. You then vary the bridge from 0 - 100%. So, as others have said, you "mix" it in, rather than "switch" it in.
tone4days said:
Let me just expand on this a bit. If you use the blend pot on the bridge, the neck will always be on at 100%. You then vary the bridge from 0 - 100%. So, as others have said, you "mix" it in, rather than "switch" it in.
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Lewguitar
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Re: What exactly does the Fralin blender pot do?
Yes...the beauty of the Blender pot is that you can blend in the proportion of neck pickup blended into the full output of the bridge pickup and vice versa. Creates A LOT of very versatile rythym tones as well as soloing tones. Also nice for taking alittle bite off of the bridge single coil by adding just a little (or a lot) of the neck pickup to it. It does have to be a no load pot, BTW, because you will hear the second pickup bleeding through into the signal if it isn't. Lew
Yes...the beauty of the Blender pot is that you can blend in the proportion of neck pickup blended into the full output of the bridge pickup and vice versa. Creates A LOT of very versatile rythym tones as well as soloing tones. Also nice for taking alittle bite off of the bridge single coil by adding just a little (or a lot) of the neck pickup to it. It does have to be a no load pot, BTW, because you will hear the second pickup bleeding through into the signal if it isn't. Lew
