@@olddogguitars23 I have a Spectrum strat I bought from Goodwill, that has weak and flat sounding pickups, I'll try it on that and let you know what happens! I'm not familiar with no load pot's, a video on that would be great!
I’ll try to do one. With potentiometers, they still provide a small amount of resistance, even when turned all the way to “10”. This allows a small amount of signal to bleed through to ground even when “wide open”. No-load pots essentially “disappear” from the circuit when turned all the way up.
@@olddogguitars23 I installed full sized 250K pots in the spectrum, the originals were small 500K, it seemed to have a little more low end, but there wasn't a big difference.
@@jr5750 what is the capacitor value? I generally use .022 to get a brighter tone and .047 to darken a little. The mainly affect how the tone pot works but still have some effect with the tone on 10. I’m curious to try some 1 meg pots, which, in theory, should allow significantly more highs through the circuit.
Great info, I usually upgrade the wiring and pickups together, next time I'll try just the wiring and see what happens! Thanks!
I would love to hear what you find out if you try that. I’m considering experimenting with some no load pots to see what effect that has.
@@olddogguitars23 I have a Spectrum strat I bought from Goodwill, that has weak and flat sounding pickups, I'll try it on that and let you know what happens! I'm not familiar with no load pot's, a video on that would be great!
I’ll try to do one. With potentiometers, they still provide a small amount of resistance, even when turned all the way to “10”. This allows a small amount of signal to bleed through to ground even when “wide open”. No-load pots essentially “disappear” from the circuit when turned all the way up.
@@olddogguitars23 I installed full sized 250K pots in the spectrum, the originals were small 500K, it seemed to have a little more low end, but there wasn't a big difference.
@@jr5750 what is the capacitor value? I generally use .022 to get a brighter tone and .047 to darken a little. The mainly affect how the tone pot works but still have some effect with the tone on 10. I’m curious to try some 1 meg pots, which, in theory, should allow significantly more highs through the circuit.