I always had massive loss of top end when I rolled the vol pot back on my Charvel DK24 so I bought a treble bleed kit from Northwest guitars. It was quite tight with wires everwhere in the cavity but I was successful in soldering it onto the correct lugs.
The issue now is that, yes, the tone maintains it treble-ness when rolling back but I now have max volume when the pot is completely off, ie it sounds good but all volume returns when the pot is fully off.
Have I knackered the pot or what? I can't think what I may have done, other than using a shitty soldering iron.
Any advice would be most welcome
Cheers,
Jim
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It is possible that you have overheated the innards of the volume pot. Applying excess pressure to the pot shaft can force the wiper and track apart.
It is possible that you have misunderstood the treble bypass wiring instructions and connected it in reverse. For all I know, you and your guitar could be left-handed.
I never pressed on the pot at all, just on the lugs to solder the treble bleed kit.
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
The cap/resistor network is a treble bypass. It allows selected frequencies to bypass the resistance track of the volume pot almost until the control knob is turned down to zero.
The volume shooting back to maximum when it should be zero suggests either a bad ground connection, a physical short circuit or damage to the resistance track.
By "in reverse", I meant the wrong pair of terminals on the volume pot. The NWG illustration follows the convention of showing the pot as viewed from below. Thus, it is correct for right-handed guitar circuits.
I'll take a look again, although I know I have the treble blleed on the correct terminals.
J
However I would suggest that you could have had an issue with the tone control bleeding off treble if the feed to the tone control was coming from the left hand tag on the volume pot
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I did that on a guitar once and the volume didn't turn off. However- as @ICBM rightly says, I've got a feeling (working on pretty hazy memory here) the volume knob just didn't really do anything much at all, rather than worked properly from 10 to 1 but then shot up to full at 0...