strat71
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Hi,
i experimented recently in my '67 ES345 the varitone "loss of treble" described by J45 in a previous post...
i did my home work and concluded the loss of treble is caused by two things:
so as my varitone only work on the bridge position, i decided to sacrify a half of the varitone and copie the mono varitone schematic and using the second half of the switch to disconnect the choke in the position 1... thus there won't be no varitone load and no paralleling of the pots...
here's the resulting schematic... mono schematic keeping the varitone fonctionnable but with a true bypass position...
http://storage.canalblog.com/70/58/274546/17141044.gif
ok, my 345 has been refinished recently so it's not a a very collectable guitar, hope it won't shock anyone here that i try to get the better of my guitar...
Ben
i experimented recently in my '67 ES345 the varitone "loss of treble" described by J45 in a previous post...
i did my home work and concluded the loss of treble is caused by two things:
- shunting the stereo output to build a mono output put the two volume pots in parallel thus giving a 250K instead of the 500K load...
- a part of the varitone remains connected even in the so called "bypass position" i.e. position1...
so as my varitone only work on the bridge position, i decided to sacrify a half of the varitone and copie the mono varitone schematic and using the second half of the switch to disconnect the choke in the position 1... thus there won't be no varitone load and no paralleling of the pots...
here's the resulting schematic... mono schematic keeping the varitone fonctionnable but with a true bypass position...
http://storage.canalblog.com/70/58/274546/17141044.gif
ok, my 345 has been refinished recently so it's not a a very collectable guitar, hope it won't shock anyone here that i try to get the better of my guitar...
Ben