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Single coil pickups usually go with 250 K pots.

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Some of the new fender Noiseless ( the vintage I believe) use 500k. Play it safe and find out from the mfr!!!!!go to there website!!

Hey , what up?

Just wanted to share this, I've read questions in this board about pots and how much you should spend. I've been working on a strat clone project and am assembling a new pickguard and made a last minute decision to scrub a mid scoop control and put in a normal volume control. Being one 250k ohm pot short , I tried one that I bought on sunday from the local guitar"wallmart"center. Bad move! got home , checked it out............... 210k ohms, plus a really cheese feel as in cheap.!! The really bad part is it cost $5.50!!

When I took it back , the guy I usually deal with laughed, went back to a shelterd part of the counter and got me a fender packaged CTS(252k ohm)...... for $6.00!!!!

Don't ask me they shovel the other ones on an unsuspecting public!

If I had put it in w/o checking it, I would have thought the pup was bassy and dark!

Good pots are worth it ! seek them out ! Don't be stubborn about it!!!!

By the way, I may be forced to use a pot thats 525k ohm as a tone control on a single coil, what value of cap would you use ???????

Hey guys!

I am attempying to rewire a strat to make it a closer fit for my usage.

I use the neck pup allot and I really like to roll my volume control back to get a nice clean funk or RB tone.

The problem is the master volume needs to go back up in addition to switching to the bridge , along w/ a tap dance on the pedal board for the solo's.Obviously , even cutting out one step would be welcome!

I've been thinking about using a "sub-volume " on the neck pup only. I found the info on the stew mac site on how to keep two volume controls from interacting, but I'm also curious, : If the value of the pot can effect the brightness of the pups output because its parallel w/ it, won't putting another volume control in parallel( before it gets to the master volumes) make things brighter by giving two paths , and thus, less resistance??

I'm thinking of the rule that states two resistors in parallel will halve their resistance.

I would appreciate any input, and I apologize if this is a daff question... It's been a while since electronics classes!!!