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Comment by Gary Williams on March 24, 2013 at 2:07am

Once again cheers David Ill leave  you in peace now

Comment by David L. on March 24, 2013 at 1:19am

Pots come in different tapers - linear (or B) pots or Logarithmic (audio or A) because of how human hearing works log/audio pots give a wider range of volume that you can hear when turning the knob and so are used for volume.  If you use a linear pot it still works but the ear cannot detect the changes below the hearing noise threhold and so it sounds like all the volume change happens over the last bit of the volume dial (eg 7-10 of the dial).  Playing live some players prefer this so they can krank up the volume for the guitar solo with a minimal twist on the volume.

By convention tone pots are linear or B pots so it rolls off the high frequency in a linear way but again you can use log pots but the tonal change will be over a smaller part of the knob rotation.

To make a tone pot you need a capacitor as per the Seymour duncan.  So a pot plus capacitor usually means it is a tone pot......

but on a volume pot on lower volumes you can lose some of the high end of the tonal spectrum so people sometimes add a treble bleed mod (this can involve a cap plus resistor or just a cap) if you google treble mod you will see the various diagrams.

The way your pot is wired doesn't fit any of the usual mods I have seen :o) 

Comment by Gary Williams on March 23, 2013 at 8:42pm

One last question are the vol & tone pots the same only the tone pot has the little green diode/ capacitor  or whatever it is

Comment by David L. on March 23, 2013 at 12:25pm

In that case you might have a volume pot with a treble bleed mod. If you connect the red wire coming off the middle lug to the red jack socket wire (just twist the ends together) and try it through an amp. If you hold the humbucker over the strings of one of your electric guitars and give it a strum it should work.....or it could be wired wrongly.

Comment by Gary Williams on March 23, 2013 at 12:06pm

thanks for that David only on thing the white wire on your drawing is going to the empty lug you show on the tone pot

Comment by David L. on March 23, 2013 at 11:00am

The third lug on the volume pot is bent back onto the pot and soldered - you can use a wire if you prefer

Comment by David L. on March 23, 2013 at 10:58am

from what I can see you have this

 

If you agree with the wiring being like this then you need to add

 

 

Comment by Gary Williams on March 23, 2013 at 10:10am

Comment by David L. on March 23, 2013 at 8:47am

Hi Gary,
Can you add a photo of the pot from the other side please?

Comment by Gary Williams on March 23, 2013 at 7:12am

David

I am 120% dense when it comes to wiring the picture i posted shows the main wires coming from the pickup to the tone pot not as in your diagram to the vol pot. In my photo the are a red and black wire coming from the tone pot do they just need to be conected to a vol pot and if so to which lugs and there is also a red wire comming from the jack where does that go. Please make your answer understandable to a 5yr old

 

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