suregork Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 Not sure if this has been answered before, but I tried a couple of searches and couldn't find any answer to my problem. I'm building a Les Paul with a normal set-up of electronics (2 HB, 4 Pots, 3-way switch), and my question is that can ohm-values of the neck pots (eg. 500K) be different from the bridge pots values (eg. 1Meg)? I think I'm going to have the neck volume and tone pots be 500K and the bridge volume and tone pots be 1Meg. I'm just afraid of the something will happen when both pickups are chosen . I hope there is an easy answer for this, and I apologize for my 'newbieness'. thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 I don't know why you would want to do it, but I see no serious problems with it. Let us know how it works out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockthe40 Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 its alright to mix em up. the higher resistance of the bridge pots might make the PUP a little less hot, but then you can just raise the PUP to compensate for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 The higher resistance of the volume pot will actually increase the output level, since it will shunt less signal to ground. It will also cut treble loss, so the sound will be brighter - how much brighter and how much louder depends on the pickup. Oh, and it will raise the noise level as well. I still don't understand the point - do you simply not have two pots with the same value? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suregork Posted January 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 well basically my local electronics shop is out of 500K pots, and I don't know when they will get more. I have two at home, and need two more, but I won't start ordering from abroad just to get two more pots (I live in Finland). So I thought I would try it out with 1meg pots.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 I'd use the 500ks for volumes and the 1Ms for the tone pots - simply adjust the value of the tone caps (if you were using the stock .02uF, replace it with a .01uF), and it should respond like a stock LP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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