Help! Tone Pot Works Like Volume Pot

[zh.guitar]

I wired up my guitar and can't get the tone pot to work properly. When I turn it, it controls the volume and goes all the way off.

I have 1 hb, 1 vol, 1 tone.

I wired it according to the Seymour Duncan site.

Volume 500k

lug #3 input, lug #2 output to jack, #1 folded back and ground

Tone 250k

lug #1 positive from volume lug #3, #2 ground to back of volume pot.

I've tried putting the vol. lug #2 out to tone lug #1 and from there to output jack.

The problem is the tone doesn't work as a tone pot it works like a volume.

help.....

btw newbie here...... no flames please..... i searched and tried all kinds of wiring combos and need help from the masters.

thanks,

[lovekraft]

Where is the capacitor? If there's no cap, it is a volume pot.

[zh.guitar]

so place a cap off the ground and that's it?

[lovekraft]

If that's what you meant, then yes!

[zh.guitar]

Thanks!!!! You rock//

What type of cap do you recommend?

500k volume 250k tone.......

[zh.guitar]

I saw on another post you recommended this:

0.022µF 50V 10% PC-Mount Capacitor

Is that good for a fat tone?

[lovekraft]

Yeah, that's been my choice for 250K pots - some folks will go as high as .047uF, and I have seen them as low as .01uF, so you might want to try 'em all out. Even at ridiculous Radio Shack prices, 3 caps will set you back less than 5 bucks, so it's a really cheap tone tweak, if you want to compare them all.

You could even make 'em switchable (if it's worth the trouble), and add another layer of complexity to your controls, if you're into that whole starship bridge controls switching concept!