Fender vintage noiseless pickups

[ehdwuld]

my buddy is getting a set for his HSS strat
and has agreed to let me have one of them ( probably the bridge )
for my HSH Ibanez in my signature line
if i wired it for him

this set comes with three 1meg pots for the controls

do these need 1 meg pots?
if so why?

the diagram says they need a .022 cap

will that be ok with his humbucker?

or will I need to add another cap to the hot lead of the humbucker
to get .044 ?
he complained that it was a bit loud and brite

oh yea the humbucker is probably gonna be the PAF PRO on my shop table

and by shop table I mean the night stand by my computer

[jeremy]

you shouldnt need 1 meg pots and the cap value is a personal taste thing than anything else. a .05 cap rolls off more mids than a .02 cap

[ehdwuld]

Just completed the Strat transformation to Noiseless pickups

here is what he got

neck and middle noisless pickups
a "found" PAF Dimarizio DP103 in the bridge

had to add legs to the PAF they had been neutered


came with three 1meg pots
one .022 tone cap
the cap and resistor for the treble bleed mod
the legs on the treble bleed cap 1/4 of and inch long rendering it unusable

and a bag full of screws , tubing , and nuts and washers for the pots

He wanted a Master tone and a bridge always on switch

so we threw one pot in the box next to my desk and got him a on/off switch
at Auto Zone (yeah, Auto Zone)

had a treble bleed kit from mojo tone


nice plan on getting some more of those

and some of the PIO caps


yea some more of those to
oh yea just as a note
I had never realized that those were polarized

when we got it all together the tone worked as a volume
and the volume worked in full on and everything else was off

checked the terminals on the volume and I had one strand of wire touching the other terminal
separated those
and the cap read dead short to ground and didn't count

TIP
Capacitors on a multimeter
set to ohms
black lead on one leg
red to the other
meter checks ohms by sending out low voltage signal from that durned nine volt battery out the black lead and reading how much of it returns to the red
Caps read in one direction counting up and from the other they count down
till they reach the maximum charge then discharge the start counting again
but they must count

checked the tone cap

dead short to ground ( its a volume control )
the above pictured caps have what looks like a solder ball on one side as teh leg returns to the cap
place this side to the terminal and the un-balled side to ground


Ok
other than tuning it up and listening to him tell me how wonderful it sounded for the next hour and a half

thats it

oh yea it did sound wonderful
no noise
vintage strat-like sounds
they were hot double coil pickups wound to about 10K each
but sound very strat-ish

the PAF just added butter to everything
smoothing of the bite of the middle pickup and adding a bit of treble to the neck

I will continue in my attempts to badger him out of that pickup, as it would make a stunning neck pickup

oh yea
added the slip-fit connectors on the hot and ground from the switch/trem-ground to the pick guard

sose he ain't gotta bring the whole thing to me when he's ready to give up that pickup