Help from someone who understands electrickery

paulnb57

Ok so Im putting Tele together with just a volume, standard bridge etc, don't ask why I just am OK?

So, in the absence of a tone pot, it wil be a bit too trebly, so, can I install a cap to tone it down a bit, if so, how?

Don't mind expeimentating with different value caps. My fave settong is with a 500 wotsit B pot with an .047 cap rolled off to about halfway..........

Thoughts?

The pink one got an all clear for a post Cancer treatment scan today, so we've got a bit squiffy, so this may make no sense at all........hic!

Paul

Roland

If you don't want it on the face of the guitar why not hide the pot in the control cavity, then you can adjust it until you get the value right?

ICBM

paulnb57 said:

Don't mind expeimentating with different value caps. My fave settong is with a 500 wotsit B pot with an .047 cap rolled off to about halfway...

That's exactly the same as a vintage 250K pot/.047uF cap up full. You can easily get the same effect with a 220K (or 240K, although they're harder to get) resistor and a .047uF cap in series.

But I would try it first without any of that since the difference between it and no tone control at all is fairly subtle. (Though not none.)

paulnb57

Thanks chaps, tucking a pot inside the cavity makes sense, amazing clarity once sober!.......

Paul

ElectroDan

paulnb57 said:

Thanks chaps, tucking a pot inside the cavity makes sense, amazing clarity once sober!.......

Paul

Glad to hear the good news about the scan.

:-bd