conky wrote:Does anyone have their guitars wired up to reduce treble bleed when rolling off the volume knob? I've been thinking of doing the 50's wiring on my LP, just wondering how well it works. Dialed in the prefect dirt tone this morning but when I roll my volume off to clean it up the highs go with it and it's a tad bit muddy.
50's wiring will help get more treble in the signal when the volume is full up. If you want to turn the volume down you should do a treble bypass mod. Requires adding a capacitor and resister on the volume pot's output lug to the lug with the wire from pickup (EDIT, not the ground), wired in either series or parallel. Many values to choose from. Common values would be 120k to 220k, and 0.68nf to 2.2nf. The best way to decide is buy some components, take the cover off of the control area, and use alligator clips to try values. The larger the capacitor the more treble comes through, to a point where it will sound like it boosts the treble as the volume goes down. The resistor will smooth the taper of the pot a bit, lower resistance will smooth it more while higher resistance will add more mids and bass through as the volume goes down. If you aren't into experimenting and using your own ears, common mods include 150k and 1.0nf, or 220k and 2.2nf. Also might want different values for the different pickups. Hope that helps.
