iskim86 Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 I have one volume pot and two tone pots on my strat copy w/ bridge humbucker. why don't the tone knobs work? it's connected and everything, but when I roll them down to zero, I barely hear any difference. do I need a different capacitor or new pots? same is with the volume knob, except the volume stays same until I reach like 2 and it volume shuts off very quickly after that. also, does anyone know what the two tone knobs control? are they assigned to different pickups or something? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asm Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 not an expert at this but i might can help...... what kind of taper pots did you get? like audio, linear, ect different pots have differnt fade offs and ons (bad terminology). ill try to find a graph. maybe you got one that had a sudden drop off at the beginning? thats an audio taper i think. cant find a graph but a linear taper would look like this: ======= = / = = / = = / = = / = =/ = ======== yes, you can marvel at my graph anytime. t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskim86 Posted February 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 i have no idea, it came with my strat copy when I bought it. it was fully assembled when I first bought it. (and it was pretty damn good for a copy!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Headen Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 It probably has linear pots. Get logorithmic pots and it should fix the problem. Devon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saber Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 It probably has linear pots. Get logorithmic pots and it should fix the problem. Devon It's either that or just very poor quality pots whose resistance curve is just way off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskim86 Posted February 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 can it be the capacitor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saber Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 can it be the capacitor? It's possible if they put in the wrong capacitor value, or if the capacitor value is way out of its tolerance range, or if it's defective, or if it has a bad solder joint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotrock Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 Is it a Vantage? If so then then Tone pots on mine didn't do anything either. I've opted for the rip them out and try again approach. Riped them out and now I'm waiting for money to put some back in again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PxP Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 The volume pot should be logarithmic and the tone pots should be linear. The tone pots only affect the middle and neck pickups (on a regular strat, don't know much about humbucker versions...). Log pots are often marked with a 'B' somwhere (like B10k), and linear ones with an 'A' (A10k). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 humbucker versions are the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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