Do It Yourself - Choosing The Right Pots And Knobs For Your Guitar (Courtesy of Stewmac)
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2016
- 500K, 250K? Which potentiometer should you install in your guitar?
A potentiometer, informally a pot, is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider. If only two terminals are used, one end and the wiper, it acts as a variable resistor or rheostat.
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Outstanding. Excellent info. Thanks very much. You are the first person I've run across who explained clearly why a coarse spline pot shaft (16 splines) takes an 18 spline pot! You have to account for the center split. Thanks so much. You'd be amazed how many people, including "tech" guys, have NO clue. Well done.
You answered all the questions I hoped you would and even more. Thanks
This video was refreshingly concise and contained exactly the information I'd been seeking. Thank you!
Thank you so much for explaining all that in such helpful detail.
Excellent presentation !!
very informative well done and thank you.
great explanation/tutorial on pots. thank you!
Great video ,very well explained 👍
Great job! Good info!
So helpful, I watched to learn how to fit pots to wood and this a perfect explanation despite doing a completely different project.
Glad it was helpful!
I've learned a lot.
Thank you.
excelentes tips! saludos desde Mexico!
Thanks. I'm installing Filtertron type humbuckers in a Strat. These are only 4K. The guitar has a maple neck and acoustically very bright. I would be grateful for any guidance concerning pot and cap values. Thanks.
Excellent video! Do you know some tip to straight up the shaft? The pot is tight but as it's turning it looks unbalanced.
Thanks In advance!!!!
@3:24 I just installed a bare knuckle 550k pot in my Legator. I had to open the shaft hole a little more, I didn't have the thing you have but I do have a triangle file and sand paper. I was just extra careful, and the result was good, no chips or gouges
Thanks buddy 😎👍👌💯🎸🎸 in Depth info is good stuff. 😊😊
No problem!
what pot value should I take for an HSS pickup configuration? great video btw
any suggestions for an hss with 1 vol and 1 tone?
Are those audio taper, or linear taper pots?
What value pots did you put in that P-Bass? You described the use of different values in 6 strings, but not for the bass.
7:15 I use guitar pics stacked or 1 if it’s thick enough
gibson makes 350k pots, u didnt mentioned stackpoles, the vintage pots. if ur interested i have some late 69 stackpoles
What I meant is what pots do I use on a guitar that has a HSS set up with a single volume and single tone control.
I like 500k EVH Low friction pots so I can do volume swells, but they don't make split shaft versions for strats...what would be the equivalent? I need 500k split shaft low friction "speed" pots.
Nice!!!
Thanks!
super helpful
Glad it helped
This guy knows his shit.
What is the black ring on the thread for? Which side of the pick guard do I put that and the washer on for a strat?
Caution: If you change your pots, keep the old ones. It will greatly affect the 'collectable' value of your guitar in the future.
Well..that would depend on the particular guitar. A 2003 Squire that had upgrades done wouldn't magically increase in value with the inclusion of the OEM hardware, for instance.
What would you recommend for a two single coils and a dual coil in the bridge position.
Check out either Guitar Fetish (GFS) or Stewmac. Both have excellent pickups at affordable prices. I like the Stewmac Golden Age humbuckers and Guitar Fetish has a large selection. I have installed their Vintage 57 series and Dream 180s both are excellent. For single coils I would check out their inventory.
@@DIYGuitarTalk I think the question was, what pots would you use in a guitar with a humbucker and a single coil?. Stew Mac just cant resist answering without trying to sell something, so much so you completely missed the point, doh. $300 mole grips, I mean fret press anyone ("¿)
I built a parts caster and I used the cheapest alnico 5 pickup set I could find, son now my pots cost more than my pickups. I have Seymore Duncan pots and a switch craft output Jack with 25$ pickups. I’m probably going to switch to a dragon fire set.
Hi, is a 1meg log tone pot offers better dynamic range?
1Meg-ohm pots are the brightest sounding. tinyurl.com/z8jj6bq
Are copper shaft pots better than brass or aluminum shaft pots?
If we think in terms of home wiring it would be better to go with copper.
hai thanks for video , i want to ask about pickup and pots wiring, is the voltage of caps like an 160v&200v&400v&600v take effect or not for sound or its important influence or notthing???
Hi, this article will help... tinyurl.com/j5j7pbp
DIY Guitar Talk with Mike Williams thanks alot for artikel its so helpfull, do you wiring link artikel, couse i have 2humb & 1hotrail pickup with two vol 1tone pushpull i need an guide to wiring
Here's a link for wiring diagrams... www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-diagrams?meta_params=view-all,humbuckers
DIY Guitar Talk with Mike Williams thanks Sir..
From what I have read and from my own experience cap voltage is not very important.
what kind of guitar is that at 6:53 ? (blue one)
It appears to be a modified Fender Mustang fitted with a single soapbar pickup, like on Jazzmasters. The pickguard looks different because one was chosen to fit over the new pickup. You'll notice it still has the Mustang floating bridge, with the trem bar removed.
What about a strat style with 2 humbuckers? I have an ltd I'm putting evos in,.. I want two volumes split coils, no tone,.. that possible?
Go here -> www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-diagrams?meta_params=view-all,strats
I did find a bunch of schematics on the dimarzio site that are close,.. the closest one is two vol no tone with push/pull for dual sound,.. so I'm wondering if dual sound and coil split are the same?
Can a POT be used for volume or tone? Or is there a POT specifically for volume and a POT specifically for tone?
Hi. A pot is a pot. The only thing that makes a pot a tone pot is the capacitor which regulates the high/low frequency sweep.
Yep
hi can I use 470k pot in place of 250k.
It will sound almost identical to a 500k.
SPLINE!
what about 100k pots ?
Pushing the knobs on all the way shouldn't push the entire shaft through unless you're removing the retaining clip from the potentiometers.
What about if I only need to replace the insert and the nut and not the pot itself?
For what a pot cost I would recommend buying a brand new one and putting it in.
$4.50 for A CTS 500K Pot, just buy a new one but I would suggest replacing all of them at taht price.
Question, how does increasing pot value make the guitar sound brighter? If higher resistance means lower current, would that result in a loss of signal, meaning less treble? I know that you want to use 250k pot for brighter guitars, and 500k for more mellow, but how does that work exactly? Does lower resistance mean less bass loss?
A potentiometer wired for volume is different than the wiring of the potentiometer for tone. Resistance is actually the same going through a tone pot because the current is split between either having a capacitor control the tone or just the raw sound without a cap. If you do not understand this explanation try looking up diagrams of guitar wiring and you should eventually get it. :)
this is too much information, lol. Thanks!
Those are calipers, not a micrometer.
wish i watched this video before I squeezed the split shaft and snapped it :(
THIS works like a charm czcams.com/video/EjkY3tuCFHI/video.html
Audio? Linear? Wtf?
Internet.
Since CTS had to be jerks and make things to their own size,guess who won't be buying them.