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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  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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'.

  • 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? 

  • 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...

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

  • CBG type (see attached)

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  • 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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