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It's really up to you regarding the treble bleed circuit. What do you roll your volume knob down for? To go between really distorted and clean? Or between varying degrees of dirt/semi-clean? Do you know if your volume pot is logarithmic or linear?
Ian
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I also like the "Falbo mod" for treble bleeds (though I think you might need to rewire your tone pot slightly for that, and it might not be worth the bother at least until you see if you like a treble bleed)- it makes the tone knob work a bit better in conjunction with the volume knob when you have a treble bleed fitted. You wire the treble bleed cap from the middle lug of your volume pot to the unused lug on the tone pot. It's actually arguably easier to wire in than a standard treble bleed- as long as the tone pot is already wired the correct way for it. I'm a bit hazy on some of this stuff (someone like @ICBM or @funkfingers could hopefully tell you for sure) as some wiring layouts look different but are actually the same thing, but the way I know to do it which definitely does work is to have a wire going from your volume knob's first lug to the middle lug of the tone pot, and then the tone cap going from the tone pot's first lug to ground. But don't bother rewiring your tone pot just yet in case you don't have to!
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Guitar tone controls are passive low pass filters. They "bleed" the high frequencies in a full range signal to ground via the combination of a variable resistor and a capacitor.
The thing across the input and output terminals of a volume control pot is a treble bypass.
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ICBM will give you a proper electrician's explanation.
I merely describe circuitry that I have tried and offer opinions on the results.
I could be misremembering, but didn't something go belly-up on Frank Falbo a while back? I think he ran his own guitar company/luthiery or something like that... I know he worked for Seymour Duncan for a while before that (he designed the P-Rails, didn't he?). EDIT: Oh he seems to work for Fishman Fluence now...
@Devil#20 If you have to rewire anyway and you can be bothered, then you can rewire it the way I said. Here's a couple of links to it:
https://www.mylespaul.com/threads/tapered-treble-bleed.82799/
https://www.jemsite.com/threads/hi-pass-filter-trick-im-an-idiot.31420/
Abasi Guitars were eventually manufactured elsewhere.
AFAIK, nobody has litigated against Falbo over his Intension™ string anchoring concept.
There are YouTube videos of Falbo Guitars at 2020 Winter NAMM, demonstrating assorted solidbody electric guitars of not massively original design.
Anyone familiar with Falbo's video presentations for SD Inc. at music trade shows will know that he knows his stuff and that his enthusiasm is infectious. This is one reason why Fishman hired him. I do not know how much input he has with Fluence pickup design and R&D testing. There is probably a non-disclosure agreement in place that forbids Falbo from revealing anything.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.