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    Ultimate Tone Slacker Will S-T's Avatar
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    Question Pot and cap values for these pickups in a Tele?

    Firstly these are two Tele projects and I'll be using parts that I already have,
    including concentric pots for each pickup and dont really want to buy more.

    Tele 1 - Neck mini HB @ 11k + bridge full size HB @ 14k, both OBL's.
    Alder body, maple/ebony neck, Schaller top lode roller bridge
    with custom B-pickup surround as mini tuners.

    Tele 2 - Neck SM-2 mini HB @ 8k + STK-2 @ 19k, both Seymour's.
    Body still to get-Ash?, Mighty Mite maple/ebony compound
    raduis neck, Wilkinson bridge and Gotoh Klusons.
    ( this will be the better guitar )

    Both guitars will have 5 way switching and series/split/parallel for each pickup,
    Fender Super switch and 3 way slide switches.

    N
    N + B Series
    N + B Parallel
    N + B Series/out of phase
    B

    The pots that I have are 2 x 250/500's (linear) and 2 x 500/500's (CTS ?).

    Given the multiple options the switching will allow,
    what pots would you recommend I use for each guitar?
    And with the 250/500's, what is best for tone/volume?
    I have plenty of .22 + .47 orange drops but would
    any other values be better? I like bright guitars!

    Thanks in advance for your considerations.

    Will.

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    Default Re: Pot and cap values for these pickups in a Tele?

    if you like bright i would go with the 500/500 for the alder obl tele and 250/500 for the other. using the 500k part for the volume and 250k for tone should be brighter than the other way around. i use orange drops .022 for just about all my tone circuts

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    Default Re: Pot and cap values for these pickups in a Tele?

    Quote Originally Posted by Will S-T View Post
    The pots that I have are 2 x 250/500's (linear) and 2 x 500/500's (CTS ?).
    Will, I second Jeremy's post; however, I would use audio taper pots instead of linear.

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