Pots For Hss Setup

[Schappy]

I am going to set up my strat for an HSS configuration. Which pots should I use?

[Schappy]

Has anybody tried this?

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa11/ajpeagle/Hss%20diagrams/hss-1.jpg

[borge]

using extra poles to load down the neck and mid. pups (making the darker pups even darker..) seems like a waste of a super switch to me....turning down a 500k pot to 8-9 is the same as using a 250k pot (or using an expensive superswitch to simulate it..)

I mean, why not use a pup set that match tonally rather than using an expensive switch to waste signal to earth??

I'd use 500k pots and put the superswitch to better use

[Schappy]

Would all 500k pots be better than 500k for volume and 250k for the 2 tone pots?

[borge]

there really is no 'better', the lower the pot value is the more output and treble is bleed to ground. so if you want slight less output and treble use lower value pots.

[Schappy]

How about using 500k volume pot and putting a resistor across lugs 1 and 3 to lower the resistance? I havent done the math yet but if I get the pot down to the 300-400 range it might be a decent compromise.

[Mender]

Of course, you could have two volume controls, a 500k for the humbucker, and a 250k for the single coils, and just have a single tone control.

[borge]

How about using 500k volume pot and putting a resistor across lugs 1 and 3 to lower the resistance? I havent done the math yet but if I get the pot down to the 300-400 range it might be a decent compromise.

That will also affect the taper.

You can get 300k pots quite easily. most pots (and other electrical components) have a tolerance of +/-20% so your average 300k can be anywhere between 240k and 360k, a 250k pot will be between 200k and 300k and so on... it's very possible a '300k' pot will have a lower value than a '250k' pot, ie don't worry about it to much

[Schappy]

Thanks for the help guys. I know there is no easy solution to a HSS setup. If I go with all 500k pots should I do the treble bleed mod as well. My only concern there is I love how the fuzz face cleans up with the volume knob and have heard the treble bleed mod changes this quite a bit.

Edited February 9, 2011 by Schappy