What size / type of pot to use with a SH-2N and TB-4 on a jackson kelly?

[Guitarweb]

I got a Jackson KE-3 for a steal so I'm going to spend the savings on a KE-2 pickup configuration (SH-2N and TB-4). The "duncan designed" "detonators" on it right now are pretty questionable.

The only twist with the KE-3 is that there is no tone control and only 1 volume control. Not a big deal for me, I've always played with the tone and volume all the way up.

What type/size of volume pot would I want in this situation? I've read CTS pots are good and to use 500k for humbuckers. Is there anything else I should consider?

 

[Artie]

Re: What size / type of pot to use with a SH-2N and TB-4 on a jackson kelly?

Welcome to the forum. There's a couple of things you could do. Stew-Mac sells a dual-concentric pot that would allow you to use a volume and tone control in one hole. (Others sell it also.)

Also, with no tone control, the guitar may be too bright. You could hard-wire a tone control on "10" by putting either a 250k or 500k resistor in series with any standard tone cap, (like .022uf, .047uf), across the output jack.

Use a push/pull pot for your volume and use the switch to preselect either of two resistors, or caps to have a 2-position tone control: bright and dark.

I can supply diagrams to any of the above. Let us know.

Artie

 

[Guitarweb]

Re: What size / type of pot to use with a SH-2N and TB-4 on a jackson kelly?

Welcome to the forum. There's a couple of things you could do. Stew-Mac sells a dual-concentric pot that would allow you to use a volume and tone control in one hole. (Others sell it also.)

Also, with no tone control, the guitar may be too bright. You could hard-wire a tone control on "10" by putting either a 250k or 500k resistor in series with any standard tone cap, (like .022uf, .047uf), across the output jack.

Use a push/pull pot for your volume and use the switch to preselect either of two resistors, or caps to have a 2-position tone control: bright and dark.

I can supply diagrams to any of the above. Let us know.

Artie

Do I want orange drop caps for this? A wiring diagram would help out a lot! Thanks.

 

[flipside]

Re: What size / type of pot to use with a SH-2N and TB-4 on a jackson kelly?

Welcome to the forum. There's a couple of things you could do. Stew-Mac sells a dual-concentric pot that would allow you to use a volume and tone control in one hole. (Others sell it also.)

Also, with no tone control, the guitar may be too bright. You could hard-wire a tone control on "10" by putting either a 250k or 500k resistor in series with any standard tone cap, (like .022uf, .047uf), across the output jack.

Use a push/pull pot for your volume and use the switch to preselect either of two resistors, or caps to have a 2-position tone control: bright and dark.

I can supply diagrams to any of the above. Let us know.

Artie

i like that idea.
Unless someone already has, someone should invent a dual-concentric push-pull pot. So you could have coil split, tone and volume all out of one hole. Might be tedious to wire, but it'd be cool