Changing 250k volume pot to 500k with hot pickups
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Changing 250k volume pot to 500k with hot pickups
My Legacy Special has the hot rail bridge and cool rails in the mid and neck position. Currently the volume pot is 250k but isn't that making a hot humbucker kind of dark? I would like more top end and wanted to know how changing the the 500k volume pot would affect the current G&L wiring and functionality of the tone controls.
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Re: Changing 250k volume pot to 500k with hot pickups
it won't change anything else.
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Re: Changing 250k volume pot to 500k with hot pickups
Well I put a 500k push/pull in place of the 250k volume pot and I am much happier with these pickups now. Before the change the guitar had a nice thick tone that sounded to me like it had too much gain for my tastes and not enough high end. With the 500k pot I have a little more high end bit and I perceive that the higher gain from these pickups is more usable for my playing. I may still put single coils in the middle and neck but for now it's working for me.