looking for feedback - I recently overhauled the wiring in my 2010 Les Paul 50s tribute with a Wolftone Mean/Meaner set that included the 50s wiring style with CTS 500K audio taper pots. The stock guitar came with 300K linear volume and 500K audio tone pots. After completion, I liked how the neck sounded - almost like a fatter version of an Eric Johnson neck pickup but the bridge sounded thin and treble spikey - lots of gain but the infamous fat P90 mids were lacking. I replaced the bridge tone pot with a 250K and the mids fattened up really well, the upper-mids were evened out and the treble softened ever-so slightly. With the 500K tone pots, I didn't hear much change in the tone control until it was around 5 - now it starts at 8-9.
I'm overhauling a semi-hollow Schecter C1ea to be closer to a Languedoc and have purchased unpotted 59' humbuckers and intend on have toggle switches for series/split/parrallel. I'm considering putting a 275K CTS audio taper pot for the bridge 59b as they have a tendency to be bright and mid scooped. I've read forums where players don't care for the brightness or mid-scoop of a pickup - changing the tone pot resistance seems to be an affordable alteration that seems to shift the resonant frequency quite well and afford a great tonal range in the sweep of the tone control. I believe altering the value of the tone pot is quite different as compared to the volume pot. I wouldn't consider this an option for all bridge pickups - for brighter or thin sounding instruments perhaps. Thoughts?
I'm overhauling a semi-hollow Schecter C1ea to be closer to a Languedoc and have purchased unpotted 59' humbuckers and intend on have toggle switches for series/split/parrallel. I'm considering putting a 275K CTS audio taper pot for the bridge 59b as they have a tendency to be bright and mid scooped. I've read forums where players don't care for the brightness or mid-scoop of a pickup - changing the tone pot resistance seems to be an affordable alteration that seems to shift the resonant frequency quite well and afford a great tonal range in the sweep of the tone control. I believe altering the value of the tone pot is quite different as compared to the volume pot. I wouldn't consider this an option for all bridge pickups - for brighter or thin sounding instruments perhaps. Thoughts?