biliousfrog Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 I'm installing the Graphtech Ghost piezo system into my new built. I have bought the quick switch assembly so that I can toggle between magnetic, mag+piezo, piezo but didn't realise that it also requires a spare pot for the piezo volume ( I thought that it was just setup on the internal preamp). I tend to keep the tone controls on max anyway so I figured that I may as well drop it completely & have magnetic volume & piezo volume. My concern is that the pickups will become exceptionally bright (as I've heard) without any tone control. Does anyone know what resistance there is in a 500k tonepot when fully open, what cap I should fit & where best to place it? BTW, I'm fitting 2x Lace P90's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert_the_damned Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 I'm installing the Graphtech Ghost piezo system into my new built. I have bought the quick switch assembly so that I can toggle between magnetic, mag+piezo, piezo but didn't realise that it also requires a spare pot for the piezo volume ( I thought that it was just setup on the internal preamp). I tend to keep the tone controls on max anyway so I figured that I may as well drop it completely & have magnetic volume & piezo volume. My concern is that the pickups will become exceptionally bright (as I've heard) without any tone control. Does anyone know what resistance there is in a 500k tonepot when fully open, what cap I should fit & where best to place it? BTW, I'm fitting 2x Lace P90's fully open its acutally 500Kohms. personally I've not experianced any problems with not having a tone pot...but if you have to have something that's going to emulate the tone pot being full open wire a 470Kohm resistor in series with a normal tone pot capacitor and wire that between the output of your volume control and ground. IMHO there will be VERY little differance in sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biliousfrog Posted October 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 ok, thanks. I had heard that removing the tone control completely adds a little bit of treble but if it's not that noticable then I'll just leave the tone pot out of the circuit. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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