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I was playing around the other day with cleaning up by backing off the guitar volume, and found it would get quite muddy. My Yamaha SG2000 has stock pickups and stock 300k volume + tone pots. I had the tone on 10, which on these pots is a no load setting.
Should I try a treble bleed, and if so what values should I go for? Alternatively, would replacing the pots with 500k help?
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If it's the former it'll get very muddy and I'd start by rewiring it, if it's the latter I like 470pf cap on the neck volume and a 330pf on the bridge, or use no cap at all on the bridge and wire it 50s style instead.
The best treble-pass cap value for humbuckers is 680pF, in my experience - although it does vary depending on the pickups and the cable you use.
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"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
From the responses above, values between 330pF and 1000pF have been suggested - with / without a resistor in parallel. Sounds like I may have some experimenting to do...
JM build | Pedalboard plans
"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
I'm thinking this mod may be a good opportunity to replace some of the wiring. I previously inserted resistors into the coil split connections to ground, to make them partial coil splits - while I'm very happy with the resulting sound, the job wasn't as neatly done as I'd like
What kind of cable would you recommend? I read somewhere that Yamaha used a very low capacitance cable which gave a brighter tone. While my OP was about reducing treble loss when turning down the volume, I'd actually be happy with a slightly warmer tone with everything on ten. Is there a particular spec / brand of cable which is typically used in LP wiring?
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I think the brightness of these guitars is more a function of the construction, the pickups and the no-load tone 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