sgnt.pepper Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 (edited) Hi, I opened up an old strat copy and noticed I had a cap on both tone pots. All the schematics I searched on this forum only show a cap on one pot. What should I do? Am I correct when saying: A) Tone pots and volume pots are the same hardware What makes them different is when you solder the cap on the pot, it turns it into a tone pot Thanks! Sgnt.Pepper Edited February 13, 2006 by sgnt.pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patman Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Am I correct when saying: A) Tone pots and volume pots are the same hardware What makes them different is when you solder the cap on the pot, it turns it into a tone pot You are quite correct As for your first question, on real strats, they wire both tone pots to the same cap. I assume on your copy, they used a separate one for each tone pot. It really doesn't matter which way it is done (as long as spending 50 cents on a capacitor is not a big deal ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opencan Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 aside that, using two capacitors let you define the tone range for each tone potentionmetter. its a quite common mod for strats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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