Two Pots

[daveq]

I'm building a guitar with two HB's (EMG's). I'm making two pots available and I'm not sure which way I want to go. My original thought was to go with two volume pots. If I were to do this, is it common for the front pot to be the neck or bridge pickup?

Maybe it would be better to have a tone pot (although I have never used it in the past on my RG550). Supposedly, the tone pots actually work a bit better with the active pickups but I don't know this by experience.

The guitar is intended to be used as a hard-rock or metal guitar.

[zandro]

My common sense tells me that the pot closest to the bridge should adjust the bridge pickup, the one closest to the neck should adjust the neck pickup. But it's your guitar, you could put the pots on the back if you want.

[daveq]

Well, it's not my guitar but I normally play the bridge pickup so I was thinking that using the closesr pot would be better. I just wanted to see what the "normal" assignment is when you have two volume pots.

[DividedByJames]

for "normal" I'd look to a Les Paul/SG design. I think the farthest forward pot mimics the farthest forward pickup (neck). Personally I like two pots...one tone one vol. I haven't really found a good use to have separate volumes and tones. You could put a concentric pot in one of the pot locations. That gives you 3 controls then, 2 of them stacked on top of each other.

[guitar_ed]

Howdy,

On my Les Paul and ES-135, the front two pots control the PUP volumes and the back two (closer to the bridge) control the tone. When I built my Walnut guitar, I changed it. The front two control the neck PUP, the back two the bridge PUP.

To each his own.

Guitar Ed

[ansil]

hmm did something like this on a guitar stat style, but with only two pickups, i used a vol slider pot to fade between the two of them for a nice blend, and i tapped along the way to make it a coil cut option too..

and added a single over all master volume control one of the best systems i have used ..