No load pot and 500k pots on a Tele - does it brighten the neck PU

Zoolooter

Just wondering before I buy a new neck pickup without a cover. 

With the 500k pots do most people only change the tone pot or the volume pot or both when trying to make it brighter? 


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HAL9000

Got a no-load pot on my Tele. Definitely livens up both pickups. Bit of a blessing and
 a curse though - easier to little finger roll it into the no-load detente than to roll it out.

Funkfingers

Had a 250k No-Load pot on the Old Growth Redwood Telecaster. Set to 10, it lent the guitar a harsh edge. I replaced it with a regular A250k pot. (I write this as a Blackguard and Roy Buchanan fan.)

HAL9000 said:

easier to little finger roll it into the no-load detente than to roll it out.

+1 Complete PITA for those Greg Koch wah wah effects.



[Edited in an attempt to still make sense after Discussion title got changed.]

Winny_Pooh

My fav tele config is to have two volume pots & no tone control. 500k neck & 250k bridge

bbill335

HAL9000 said:

Got a no-load pot on my Tele. Definitely livens up both pickups. Bit of a blessing and
 a curse though - easier to little finger roll it into the no-load detente than to roll it out.

These pots are smooth in and out of the "no load" setting

thegummy

HAL9000 said:

Got a no-load pot on my Tele. Definitely livens up both pickups. Bit of a blessing and
 a curse though - easier to little finger roll it into the no-load detente than to roll it out.

This is very true. It might sound like a nothing point on paper but it actually gets quite annoying.

CTS sell a no-load pot that's exactly the same as the Fender but doesn't have the indent so is easier to turn with the pinky.

The no-load tone will make both pickups brighter - I actually find it makes the Tele bridge pickup sound too ear piercing on the one I've tried.

CasperCaster

A year or two back I think Tim Shaw introduced a stereo/dual pot on some Fender guitars e.g. HSS Strat's - 250K and 500K sections on a single splined shaft pot to address a similar dilemma. Anyway, I see Crazy Parts in Germany are now stocking something which looks remarkably similar: http://www.crazyparts.de/electronics/cts-tvt-custom-pots/cts-500-250k-splitshaft-pot.php
A possible solution?

Edit#1: Alternatively, is it not possible to use a 500K pot and put a 470k resistor in parallel when selecting the bridge pickup? 

Edit#2 : Just seen @thegummy post below. I think the parallel resistor trick is actually probably easier...

thegummy

CasperCaster said:

A year or two back I think Tim Shaw introduced a stereo/dual pot on some Fender guitars e.g. HSS Strat's - 250K and 500K sections on a single splined shaft pot to address a similar dilemma. Anyway, I see Crazy Parts in Germany are now stocking something which looks remarkably similar: http://www.crazyparts.de/electronics/cts-tvt-custom-pots/cts-500-250k-splitshaft-pot.php
A possible solution?

Is that better than just using a 500k pot and adding a resistor to the pickup you want to have 250s?