Vintage Taper 1 Meg Volume Pots?

[Seanizle]

Threw a 1 meg CTS pot in the neck volume to tame the boom, and with an a3 magnet and hours of frustration and fiddling, I've solved the problem. Only problem is when I turn down the volume for cleans, it's goes straight to mud; at least compared to the RS super pot in the bridge.

Anyone know of any high quality, vintage taper (audio/linear) 1 meg pots? I know the CTS pot probably reads 700-800, so anything over 600 is probably fine, as the a3 magnet has helped the most.

 

[TheX]

Anyone know of any high quality, vintage taper (audio/linear) 1 meg pots?

Don't you mean either linear OR audio instead of vintage?

 

[Seanizle]

Vintage taper as in old centralab style pots that are a combination of both; the RS super pots are like this, but don't come in 1 meg. I was fiddling again this morning and suspect maybe the neck tone pot was the cause of the boom, meaning 1 meg might not be necessary, but am still curious.

On a side note, would a tone pot with a low reading like 430 cause an already dark neck pup to boom in the bass? I though it only affected it when the tone knob was rolled down?

 

[ARandall]

For one the neck will be mud more likely than the bridge, irrespective of the pot you have. You either need 50's wiring or a treble bleed to keep the highs present.

And the way the tone circuit works is that there is a treble loss the second you connect it (the exception is the no-load tone pot). '10' just means you have the full value of the pot resisting the highs going to ground. The lower value the pot the more highs go to ground at 10.