Pickups and Pot Values

Byo

Hi there,

I would really appreciate some input on pups and pot value pairings, as I have some partcasters that I am building and would like to try some unconventional pickup pairings.

I am aware of the usual suspects:

- Single coil + 250k pots 
- Humbucker + 500k pots
- P90 + 500k pots

But would love to understand a bit more of how to pair the below type of pickups to a specific pot value to get the best out of the setup.


- Gold Foil (I assume that 250k as they are single coils mainly??)

- Filtertrons

- Dynasonics 

- Jazzmaster pups (I always thought that 1Meg pots were the norm, but have seen some people using 500k)

- WRHB (I have seen setups that used 500k or 1Meg pots)


Thanks in advance! 

Funkfingers

There are no absolutely hard and fast rules. Try whichever values you have handy. If you like how a combination of pickups and pots sounds, stick with it.

timmypix

Gretsch appear to use 500k with filtertrons, but I've also heard them sound quite nice with 1Meg. I'm putting a set of humbucker-sized 'trons from the Creamery in my Revstar this week and leaving the stock 500K pots to start with. If I find I'm missing some presence, I'll get 1Megs!

Dave_Mc

I used a no-load tone pot (500k both volume and tone) with my WRHBs to kind of hedge my bets. I never bothered trying 1meg.