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No Tone Pots In Strat? Help Needed Please!


digamma

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Hi every1,

This is my first post on the forum after reading through a bunch of threads. There is alot of info on here but i can't find answers to this question

Basically, im putting together a strat, and i would like to set it up for 2 volume, and NO tone pots. My worry is, by removing the tone pots from the picture, their resistance they would normally provide on Full/10 (250kOhm) is going to dissapear. Won't this change the sound of the guitar?

I want to remove the tone pots, but keep the sound the same as if they were always full on max. Any ideas? Any schematics?

Thanks in advance

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cut them out thats what i did (at the 5 way switch), when the tone pots are on 10 they are basically at 0 resistance letting all the signal thru clean when on 0 they are sending the all the signal thru the capacitor and that cuts treble.

there should be 2 wires connected to the 5way for each pot, you can just remove them there.

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Basically, im putting together a strat, and i would like to set it up for 2 volume, and NO tone pots. My worry is, by removing the tone pots from the picture, their resistance they would normally provide on Full/10 (250kOhm) is going to dissapear. Won't this change the sound of the guitar?

Yeah, it would make it a little brighter. I probably wouldn't worry about it but you could just stick a 250K Ohm resistor and the cap in between the hot output and the ground somewhere to get the same effect.

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