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250K pots will sound less bright than 500K's
Or can you not adjust your amp to suit?
One tone control or two, and if two which pickups are they assigned to?
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EDIT: Oh flip you've already got 250k? I just assumed you'd have 500k lol. I'll let @ICBM suggest values since you probably don't want to go too low or things will get murky. Would a 470k to ground do enough? That's the usual value you use with a 500k pot to make it into a 250k pot for the singles. Presumably (?) a 250k resistor (can you get 250k? 220k is easily available I think and that'd be even worse!) would drop the pot to more like 125k and I would be worried that would be too dark. I would guess you'd want to be just below a 200k pot, I know @ICBM says 20% is basically impossible to hear any difference so anything that gets you above 200k is basically pointless.
FWIW one volume and one tone makes it very easy to accomplish. Again I'll let @ICBM field that one since pretty much anything I'm telling you, he's told me in the past!
Some guitars are just inherently very bright - it's not always the pickups that are the cause, my friend has a Strat which is just naturally like that.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
However, it will be closer, and it will allow you to turn down the tone for the singles without affecting the humbucker - this is why traditional HSS guitars modified from old Strats with no tone control for the bridge pickup are usually left with the stock 250K pots.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein