Posted by HOGS GRUNT on October 1, 2009 at 10:27am
I am in the process of making a six string CBG and want to use a single coil pup for the bridge and a humbucker for the neck position.
I have read, in these hallowed pages, that you should use 250k pots for single and 500k for humbuckers. With this combination has anyone got the answer as to which pots to use please?
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Thanks for the info.
Being a bit of a wiring dummy could you point me in the right direction for a wiring diagram for that set up please.
I like the sound of that idea.
Hogs.
>StarGeezers said:
If you're using humpups , you can split the coils into series, parallel , and single coil with an on/on/on/ toggle switch ... and get many sounds .... use a 500K for humpups ...even split it sounds good ... 500K works for tone too , especially with a good quality tone cap .... we like .015uf for that "woman tone"
If you're using humpups , you can split the coils into series, parallel , and single coil with an on/on/on/ toggle switch ... and get many sounds .... use a 500K for humpups ...even split it sounds good ... 500K works for tone too , especially with a good quality tone cap .... we like .015uf for that "woman tone"
Hi hogs the Axesrus site is a cool place thats where i buy all my Alpha pots , hook up wire , orange drop caps ect ect!- also free postage to the UK and nine outa ten cases you get your stuff the next day if you order before dinner time juju
Hi hogs the Axesrus site is a cool place thats where i buy all my Alpha pots , hook up wire , orange drop caps ect ect!- also free postage to the UK and nine outa ten cases you get your stuff the next day if you order before dinner time juju
Hi hogs the Axesrus site is a cool place thats where i buy all my Alpha pots , hook up wire , orange drop caps ect ect!- also free postage to the UK and nine outa ten cases you get your stuff the next day if you order before dinner time
juju
Erik thanks for that.
I have saved the axesrus site and will peruse it later but, from what you said, I think I already have the answer.
Mr Snerd,
Again thanks and you have given me what I should have looked for before. If I go on to the fender site, or the Seymour Duncan site, they have all the wiring diagrams for nearly all the combinations of pups.
I should have thought of all this myself but I am not firing on all cylinders at the moment.
Yep! right out of the Stewart Mac Donald guitar parts catalog,,, quote" 500k-ohm pots are used with humbuckers, and 250k's with single coil pickups. 250's gives a slightly warmer tone then the 500k,, end quote.
Fender does it with their Strats, an HSS configuration, ( humbucker/single coil /single coil ) so there has to be a scamatic floating around somewhere that would identify the pot size.
Basically, you'll always suffer slight compromise by running single coils next to humbuckers when it comes to pots. The saving grace is that 90% of use have been to too many gigs to notice any real differance. Comes down to a litle bit of audio snobbery at the end of the day, which is never a bad thing.'
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Just what I needed. Now I need a switch.
StarGeezers said:
Being a bit of a wiring dummy could you point me in the right direction for a wiring diagram for that set up please.
I like the sound of that idea.
Hogs.
>StarGeezers said:
juju.
HOGS GRUNT said:
Have fun at the fest!!!!!!
soundssogood said:
juju
I have saved the axesrus site and will peruse it later but, from what you said, I think I already have the answer.
Mr Snerd,
Again thanks and you have given me what I should have looked for before. If I go on to the fender site, or the Seymour Duncan site, they have all the wiring diagrams for nearly all the combinations of pups.
I should have thought of all this myself but I am not firing on all cylinders at the moment.
Thanks guys.
Fender does it with their Strats, an HSS configuration, ( humbucker/single coil /single coil ) so there has to be a scamatic floating around somewhere that would identify the pot size.
I just got this from a really helpful sidebar on the Axerus site -
' 250K or 500K?
As a quick and easy rule of Thumb, we use this guide.
1Meg = very bright sounding
500K = bright sounding
250K = warm, vintage sounding
Problems can arrise when your running a Humbucker in the same guitar as a Single Coil, but these are the results we've found.
1Meg = bright HB, shrill SC
500K = warm HB, bright SC
250K = muddy HB, warm SC
Basically, you'll always suffer slight compromise by running single coils next to humbuckers when it comes to pots. The saving grace is that 90% of use have been to too many gigs to notice any real differance. Comes down to a litle bit of audio snobbery at the end of the day, which is never a bad thing.'
This is the site, http://www.axesrus.com/axeElectronicsPots.htm#Alpha
Hope that helps mate
Erik