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Permalink Reply by robert gate on May 20, 2013 at 7:25am

Thanks for share

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on May 20, 2013 at 8:05pm

I'm with steve Direct to Jack and twist the wires to lower interferance

but if you want tone control get a no load version that when it is off its direct to the jack

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Permalink Reply by ron carlson on May 21, 2013 at 2:38am

Hey Bug, I've been using Alpha and CTS pots (mostly 250K) Although I really haven't looked further than Stewmac for pots, never seen anything that was identified or specified as "no load", . Do these fit the bill or do I need to look elsewhere ?

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Permalink Reply by ron carlson on May 21, 2013 at 2:45am

Crap, I just found what I think your talking about on the Stewmac site.  Jackpot potentiometer, correct?

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Potentiometers/Jac...

I guess I will have to order a few up and just temp in direct to jack until they show up.

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Permalink Reply by ron carlson on May 21, 2013 at 2:27am

I have a little hard time getting over the notion that I need to reach for the amp to adjust anything but I'm beginning to warm up to the idea of just going direct to the jack. It may just be the cleanest way to go here.  I'm a bit of a minimalist when it comes to my audio set-ups and although this is far removed from audio, makes sense.

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on May 21, 2013 at 5:20am

That looks the kinda thing

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on May 21, 2013 at 8:24am

Fenders 'no load' pots are pretty cool, but über expensive for what they are. There are ways of making your own by opening a vanilla pot and scoring some of the carbon off the wiper at the end, check the Internet ;)
I like a tone and volume pair that I can switch in and out, a prest rhythm sound like on a jazzmaster..
FYI twisting the wires like Steve mentions is always a good trick, this is essentially shielding rember that one of them is your ground, so it's almost the same as the alfoil thing I mentioned before, a faraday cage around the hot wire

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Permalink Reply by ron carlson on May 21, 2013 at 5:34pm

Interesting. I'll have to check that out. I've dug around inside if my fair share of large L-pads but never a little guy like that.  Wouldn't hurt to give it a try. Almost everything else on this guitar is hand butched, I mean built ;)  No reason not to have a modded pot in there. 

Do you just wire up the same way?  The one I found on Stewmac has 5 tabs. The outermost  tabs must provide the bypass I'd imagine.

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on May 21, 2013 at 8:28pm

Is there no way you could add a micro switch as a pot bypass switch so it does the same job as a no load pot?

As if you by pass it then it would do the same, then you can use some good old CTS pots...

I am looking at a blend circuit to blend a flatpup with a rod piezo like the old "broadcaster" wiring so the tone pot becomes a mixer. Recon this would be a great combination.

 

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on May 21, 2013 at 9:16pm

Of course, that's how my circuits work, rhythm sound = blend pot + tone control or lead sound = bridge pickup straight out..

If you're clever with a multimeter you can work out how to get a 2 for 1 tone control with one those balance pots ;)

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Permalink Reply by ron carlson on May 22, 2013 at 1:57am

I'd think that would work fine. I have some DPDT mini's but I think something a little more stout would be preferable.  I'd probably end up breaking one of those off in short order. Maybe not though. I'll have to pull out one and look at it. It wouldn't be hard to replace if you did I suppose.

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on May 22, 2013 at 2:11am

Anyone got a circuit for blend pot wiring?

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