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So ... I'm modding up a cheap but very playable Jackson Adrian Smith SDX (Indonesian made) to do the odd 80's FR whammy bar extremism. The Floyd Rose special trem is holding up so far - but I know someday a decent Schaller FR will likely find a home there.
The guitar's electrics as expected with cheap imports were poo. Flimsy feeling import style 5 way and pots with rubbish tapers. I've replaced the Vol pot with a good CTS 500K Audio pot and also I've replaced the pickups - SD Custom Custom trembucker, Dimarzio Areas (single size humbuckers) in middle and neck (and learning on the way that you have to reverse the recomended wiring for the SD to stay in phase with the DiMarzio in position 2!).
While the CTS pot is great - there's just a little too much treble roll off at low volume so I want to stick a treble bleed in there.
The thing is I have another guitar with the SD custom custom as it's bridge pickup and I have a 220 cap with a resistor in parallel (I think 130K) over the vol pot (unsure of make as it's now plastered with solder blobs but tapers nice) and it works great - but when I use the same value cap/resistor combo with the Jackson vol pot it just seems to a) do nothing to the treble and b) kills the pot taper.
I'm going to solder 2 wires over the pot and have them hanging out to try different caps without needing to unstring and take scratchplate off every time
Any good suggestions for caps/resistors combos that retain a small bit of treble and doesn't kill the taper too much? Resistors in parallel or resistor in series? No resistor?
If you've a SD Custom Custom pickup I'd be especially interested to hear what you've used.
The guitar's electrics as expected with cheap imports were poo. Flimsy feeling import style 5 way and pots with rubbish tapers. I've replaced the Vol pot with a good CTS 500K Audio pot and also I've replaced the pickups - SD Custom Custom trembucker, Dimarzio Areas (single size humbuckers) in middle and neck (and learning on the way that you have to reverse the recomended wiring for the SD to stay in phase with the DiMarzio in position 2!).
While the CTS pot is great - there's just a little too much treble roll off at low volume so I want to stick a treble bleed in there.
The thing is I have another guitar with the SD custom custom as it's bridge pickup and I have a 220 cap with a resistor in parallel (I think 130K) over the vol pot (unsure of make as it's now plastered with solder blobs but tapers nice) and it works great - but when I use the same value cap/resistor combo with the Jackson vol pot it just seems to a) do nothing to the treble and b) kills the pot taper.
I'm going to solder 2 wires over the pot and have them hanging out to try different caps without needing to unstring and take scratchplate off every time
Any good suggestions for caps/resistors combos that retain a small bit of treble and doesn't kill the taper too much? Resistors in parallel or resistor in series? No resistor?
If you've a SD Custom Custom pickup I'd be especially interested to hear what you've used.