Gold Tone
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Anyone looking for a single set of Historic Spec Pots + 1 spare, e-mail me
The taper on the new Historic Spec Pots are a dead-nuts copy of the old Centralab Straight line audio taper......
Has Gibson always offered aftermarket Historic Spec pots? If they have, how will I know for sure
that I will be getting the new spec pots and not old spec ones, if I want to buy some?
I'm not sure about this, but I think before they came out with the new custom taper Historic pots, they were using the same pots in the Historics that they used in the production guitars. I never saw Historic pots for sale before the new ones came out. I believe you're safe in ordering them.
Al
Well, I'm just back from my holiday and surprise surprise, someone couldnt help having another dig, just as I predicted.
Let me tell you something Black58, I care a lot about the opinions of people on this and many other forums, otherwise why would I bother to ask questions on here. As far as I can see it is YOU who doesnt value or care about other guys opinions, and how long someone has been on a forum is totally irellevant - I have been on here for over 18months, I am certainly not new, but I value the opinion of someone who has been on here for 10mins just as much as someone whos been here for 10years.
And just for the record, your "new to the computer world" comment actually made me laugh out loud! ...oh sorry, 'LOL' ...thats 'computer speak'. I am actually a Video Game Artist (hence my alias), and before that I was a graphic designer. I have been immersed in the 'computer world' since the early '90s. I am also an admin on two gamer forums and probably know an awful lot more about said world than you will ever know my friend.
"Computer world" :rofl ...one of the funniest things I've read all year! If either of us is the FNG I'm afraid its YOU mate.
P-90s definitely prefer 500K pots. Although, vintage Juniors typically came with 250K tone pots.
OK, so if I have a dark sounding LPJR (an '06 USA version) which from what I've read has a 300K linear volume and 500K audio tone (which I have no problem with actually),could I expect to brighten it up a bit if I used a 500K audio taper pot? I also want to get a good PIO cap in there too.
Originally Posted by maxwedge
I measured 3 pots today: a new RS Guitar Works Super pot, and Volume pots removed from my 06 R6 and 09 R9 and I've also put in percent of the taper (divide smaller values by max value).
IMO, this is a very rough way of 'seeing' the taper and a much better way would be to run a small voltage through them, like 12v, and plot the taper on digital scope. Then you could really see it! This way is hard to be accurate. These 3 I have are all over the place!
---------RS------------06-R6 -----------09-R9
"0" ----.3-- 0%-------- .3 -- -0%------ .1--0%
"1" -1.5k-.003%------1.3k --.003%---1.2k .003%
"2" --29k - 5%--------39k ---8%------- 9k 2%"3" --66k -12%----- 115k --23%----- 19k 4%
"4" -103k -19%----- 180k- 35%------ 28k 6%
"5" -136k -25%----- 255k -50%------ 40k 8%
"6" -174k -32%------332k -65%------ 58k 12%
"7"--279k -51%----- 407k -80%-----135k 28%
"8" -379k -72%----- 465k- 93%----- 287k 58%
"9"--514k--94%---- 511k 100%----- 440k 92%
"10" 548k 100%---- 511k 100%----- 474k 100%
That's weird, on both my LP and 335 the RS Superpots are very clear and very usable all the way down to about 2. Very similar to the way a linear pot works. There is a very noticable volume jump from 8-10 just like an audio taper. Both are wired 50's style.
I know I'm reviving an old thread.
...All I can say is just the difference it makes when turning down the the volume is huge. Retained highs and clarity. Even the volume on the neck pickup is now useful. Got a great George Benson-Breezin' tone. Very happy. Works well........FOR ME!
Thanks for all the info guys.