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  • Corbie February 25, 2012 at 9:31am

    Skeesix......... Where does the Piezo pickup come in here........high low muddy clean.....? Or do we just leave it be?

    • Uncle Toad > Corbie March 8, 2012 at 8:17pm

      Corbie -- piezo pickups tend to be REALLY spanky - almost like an ice pick in the ear on the high end sometimes - so (a) a lower value pot is good - even 100K if you can find one - look for audio taper, and (b) a larger value cap can warm it up (or take the edge off, more accurately).

       

    • Corbie > Uncle Toad March 9, 2012 at 8:52pm

      Thanks Uncle Toad. I have been experimenting  with the piezo on placement inside the box. I'm looking to spice things up.........or unspice........... hard to tell when you don't know. You have dropped a lot of info in just a few lines. I'll work on this.

  • Skeesix February 24, 2012 at 6:36pm

    It's a tone thing.

    The higher the pot value the more highs it will let through. A 1 meg ohm pot will be about the same as hooking the pickup up directly with no pot in the circuit. Since humbuckers are darker, they get a higher value pot typically 500k. This will keep them from being too dark/muddy.

    A single coil is brighter so it's gets a lower value, typically 250k to take the edge off the highs and warm it up a bit.

    Same thing with capacitors, except the larger the value, the darker the sound. Humbuckers typically use .022mf and single coils .047 mf.

  • Charlotte Henry February 24, 2012 at 1:56pm
    General consensus is that humbuckers get 500k and single coil gets 250.way too complicated for me to say why. I just read and follow the basic guidelines.
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