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Preferred CBG electronics?

Getting near a decision point.

Rocky Patel 12-year black/maroon/gold box, 25.5" scale, 3 string with birch ply/mahogany neck. Pup is single coil surface mount.

Trying to decide on wiring. In general, what do most people use, straight to jack, vol only, or vol/tone? I am not a great player, and have a Line 6 Pod 2.0 next to my comfy chair.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Floyd on September 15, 2021 at 4:40am

Strat style pickup, P90, or?

On my P90 guitars I rarely use the tone, so I plan to go with a 250-300K volume pot only.

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on September 15, 2021 at 5:22am

CBG type (see attached)

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on September 15, 2021 at 6:40am

Single coil- 250K/300K pots Humbucker- 500K pots use .022uF/.033uF/.047uF for Tone capacitor- bigger value warmer sound?

https://www.cbgitty.com/guitar-instrument-parts/electronics/electro...

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on September 15, 2021 at 10:06am

So is the use of controls on CBG about 50/50?

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on September 15, 2021 at 10:18am

If you don’t mind not having control over your volume & tone, then go straight to the output jack. But if you want to get the most tonal response out of your pickups, then Volume & Tone pots are a must, they fine tune the sound without having to change your amp settings?

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on September 15, 2021 at 10:41am

On my full size geets I almost never use them, but that's because I am such a low-level player. On the onter hand, one of my Life Rules is 'better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it'.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Floyd on September 16, 2021 at 3:59am

On my dual P90 guitars, I change tone by switching between the three pickup combinations. Riding the volume knob is a great skill, though. Can go from clean to edge of distortion with a touch of the pinkie.

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Permalink Reply by Lark Leazar on September 19, 2021 at 7:28am

I did volume and tone pots with a humbucker. I only play it with the tone rolled all the way off. Too trebly otherwise. I am a bass guitar player, so that factors into it (I'm not much on screaming/biting treble). It would have been simpler to just do a volume pot with a fixed resistor/capacitor for tone. Not a big deal, I suppose.

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