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I would usually prefer to use the switched pots for the tone controls as the tapers are often not as good, but if you want to use them for the volumes, then...
455K - neck volume
532K - bridge volume
533K - neck tone
572K - bridge tone
Not that it actually makes the blindest bit of difference with such small variations .
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That would give you volume controls higher than tone controls, which I normally don’t like - but that’s only with properly different values. I’ve never even measured individual pots when putting a guitar together, it just doesn’t make enough difference to matter if they’re all 10% tolerance.
The 572K is a bit of an outlier though, the difference between that and the 455K might just be audible.
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Following @ICBM's advice, I allocated them like this:
439k - Neck Volume
469k - Neck Tone
510k - Bridge Tone
514k - Bridge Volume
Pickups are 7.5k neck and 8k bridge, very clear, in an SG-type guitar. Anything wrong with the allocation? Tone caps will be 22nF, although I have 33nF available too.
I'll let @ICBM answer about the pot values... I always put bigger ones for the volumes (on the basis that volumes affect the brightness more than tones and I like brighter usually), but having read @ICBM 's working, I think I got it the wrong way round! Though I suspect, as he said, that being the same nominal value it made no difference... any of the ones I can remember measuring were well within spec, actually pretty tight tolerances IIRC.
I also prefer to use smaller caps for the bridge pickup and larger ones for the neck, if you must use different values. I don't see any point in trying to make the pickups sound more alike rather than less...
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For example would there be an audible difference between a 250K and a 300K volume pot? Or do I need to go higher - to 350k or thereabouts?
I found that a difference of within about 25% from the pot value wasn’t audible, possibly as much as 33% if higher - it’s not linear, it becomes more sensitive at lower values.
So a 250K pot that measures 300K will sound the same, but 350K will be slightly brighter. Going the other way, it will sound the same down to about 200K, but then start to get duller quite rapidly if you go much below that.
Both those examples are well outside the +/-10% tolerance on most good quality pots though, and even outside the +/-20% on cheaper ones, so you’re unlikely to actually come across any.
There is a good reason those tolerances are standard in the industry.
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