Thank you so much for this. I just recently acquired a CF Martin Stinger and an 1982 Aria Pro II Classic MIJ. Both need new pots so this helps me a lot as right now the wiring in my CF Martin is all balled up.
Thank you! You helped me solve the problem of why my volume wasn’t going to mute. I didn’t have my lug on the volume pot grounded. Once you showed me how the volume pot was supposed to work I made the small change and boom! My pickups sound like a dream and volume goes mute!
Cannot believe it only took 5 minutes for me to fix the issue I was having I never registered the fact that lugs 1 and 3 had to do with the wiper and lug 2 was the output I was able to fix the problem I had with ease thank you
Man thank you so much! Trying to understand input and output in pots was driving me crazy! My HSS wiring is sending the tone wipe to the volume wipe through a cap, i think its wrong even tho the wiring was send by my guitar manufacturer!
@Boodysaspie the tone is ton working or its working slightly, also the volume pot doesnt work, it just goes 0-100, i am gonna fully rewire it to something that makes sense...
Thanks for the great breakdown!!....one question....is there a difference between leg 1 and leg three? Or is it up to us to decide which will be used as hot and which as ground? thanks!
Great video man. Thanks a lot. Can you explain please the difference in resistances in each pot? Like why some of them have higher resistance and some have lower? How does that affect the tone or the quality of the sound? Also why some people use capacitors of different sizes in the circuit? It's just so interesting how everything works and how different components have different affects on the sound. I'd love to understand more how these things work so I can achieve my ideal sound I'm looking for. Thanks a lot man. Apologies for the many questions :)
so say i have something with a strat bridge claw and the bridge pickup isnt turning down, it works, the tone knob works too but the volume pot does not. would i ground the bridge claw to Lug 3?
There's a Sweatwater page that says you can use a volume pot for tone and all that's needed is a capacitor.. They don't explain it further or have a diagram. Do you know how to do this and can you provide info? Thanks.
I have two old school Seymour Duncan pickups with the braided wire,im trying to hook them up to, 1 tone,1 volume and a three way toggle switch,can u help me with this????
hello, mine stopped working and i tried to fix it but failed, i dont know how to do it, seems really difficult for me, there are 3 wires coming from each pickup (red, black, green) and a yellow cable that goes to the plug; to make it simpler, could i connect those directly to the plug without the tone and volume knots and it would work? thanks a lot
Hi Mate, Thank you for your video, I want to ask I am working on a project to have two pick up on my acoustic guitar, neck and piezo. I want to have stereo and mono out put on my guitar. Say I have stereo out put jack i solder two hot to hot stereo and ground to ground on out put stereo jack. If I split the pick up hot and ground and combine both and solder to mono hot tip and same split ground from pick up, join them and solder them to ground of mono out put jack. Will that help to have stereo and mono signal where on stereo I can control each pick up individually and in mono both pick up will be together. Please help and advise
I'm installing a Seymour Duncan Invader, and the diagram says to solder a ground wire together with two others, is a video available showing how to do that?
Nice vid. Question: Got a new Les Paul copy. Plays, sounds great, but, volume pots don't turn all the way off. Grounding issue? If so, how do I fix that. Thx!
Do the value of the pots all have to be the same? I.E. on a standard VVT jazz bass, If I wanted to use 500k or 1meg pots, do all three pots have to be 500k or 1meg respectfully or can I mix up the values? Currently, I'm about to wire a jazz bass with 1meg in both volumes and a 500k for the tone. Will that work? thanks
250k dulls the hi end of the pickup more and is better suited for single coils so they don´t sound too harsh. 500k dulls it much less and is better suited for humbuckers since they don´t have as much hi end to begin with.
Hi tnx for sharing this.......... can u hlp Me my neck pickup is Ok but while plugging guitar only bridge pickup working .... & the nob is Also wrkng How to fix This ....???
Great video, but why is it it never works for me. Red wire to lug#1, white wire to lug#2, and black wire to lug#3/and to the bridge ground, simple right ?nope
A very crude display compared to some other videos but that was honestly the best explanation I have ever seen. So helpful.! Thank you for this!
Completely agree!
I disagree on the crudeness, I've seen worse, however I do agree on best explanation ever!
Thank you so much for this. I just recently acquired a CF Martin Stinger and an 1982 Aria Pro II Classic MIJ. Both need new pots so this helps me a lot as right now the wiring in my CF Martin is all balled up.
Dammit dude, you freaking nailed it... Thank you so much!
Probably the best video on how pots work. Thank you!
Thank you. I've been trying to figure out how to change a tone pot into a volume pot and this video helped a lot
could never figure it out. Very well and clearly! thanks!
Excellent tutorial, mate! Thanks.
simple and straighforward. thank you for the quick and clear explanation.
Best fkng explanation ever.
Best explanation I’ve seen yet! Thank you!
Bravo! Well done. Thank you.
Litterally answered all my questions… thank you!
This is super helpful! Thank you!
Great explanation! Much much clearer than any of the other videos that I have watched!
You just answered my question. Thanks! Very clear
You helped me! I got the ground on the right terminal working so now it goes 100% quiet
Great explanation, love your simulation program !!!
I understand alot more now about what's going on thanks man love the vids
Dude, thanks!
Thank you!
This makes sooo much more sense now. Thanks!
Thank you! You helped me solve the problem of why my volume wasn’t going to mute. I didn’t have my lug on the volume pot grounded. Once you showed me how the volume pot was supposed to work I made the small change and boom! My pickups sound like a dream and volume goes mute!
Very to the point. Thank you kind Sir.
Dude, I fixed my volume knob on the first try!! Thanks for this video!!!
great sound effects "the signal goes shooop and shoooop" 😂
yes, and scientifically accurate 😅
Thanks maan!!
Its so helpful that you dont bring all that unconscious knowledge that techies bring and assume you know.
Big thanks. Great video.👍🎸
Cannot believe it only took 5 minutes for me to fix the issue I was having
I never registered the fact that lugs 1 and 3 had to do with the wiper and lug 2 was the output
I was able to fix the problem I had with ease
thank you
thanks!
Maaaaan, i actually understood this. Thank you very much.
Nice explained :)
Man thank you so much! Trying to understand input and output in pots was driving me crazy! My HSS wiring is sending the tone wipe to the volume wipe through a cap, i think its wrong even tho the wiring was send by my guitar manufacturer!
@Boodysaspie the tone is ton working or its working slightly, also the volume pot doesnt work, it just goes 0-100, i am gonna fully rewire it to something that makes sense...
Thanks for the great breakdown!!....one question....is there a difference between leg 1 and leg three? Or is it up to us to decide which will be used as hot and which as ground? thanks!
NIce!
Great video man. Thanks a lot.
Can you explain please the difference in resistances in each pot? Like why some of them have higher resistance and some have lower? How does that affect the tone or the quality of the sound? Also why some people use capacitors of different sizes in the circuit?
It's just so interesting how everything works and how different components have different affects on the sound.
I'd love to understand more how these things work so I can achieve my ideal sound I'm looking for.
Thanks a lot man. Apologies for the many questions :)
so say i have something with a strat bridge claw and the bridge pickup isnt turning down, it works, the tone knob works too but the volume pot does not. would i ground the bridge claw to Lug 3?
Very helpful! :D
great video
There's a Sweatwater page that says you can use a volume pot for tone and all that's needed is a capacitor.. They don't explain it further or have a diagram. Do you know how to do this and can you provide info? Thanks.
Thanks for great video .loved it and it is very helpful.
Thanks to Jesus for you
I have two old school Seymour Duncan pickups with the braided wire,im trying to hook them up to, 1 tone,1 volume and a three way toggle switch,can u help me with this????
Really helpful
Thanks
how about the 2 tone knobs?
hello, mine stopped working and i tried to fix it but failed, i dont know how to do it, seems really difficult for me, there are 3 wires coming from each pickup (red, black, green) and a yellow cable that goes to the plug; to make it simpler, could i connect those directly to the plug without the tone and volume knots and it would work? thanks a lot
Hi Mate,
Thank you for your video, I want to ask I am working on a project to have two pick up on my acoustic guitar, neck and piezo. I want to have stereo and mono out put on my guitar. Say I have stereo out put jack i solder two hot to hot stereo and ground to ground on out put stereo jack. If I split the pick up hot and ground and combine both and solder to mono hot tip and same split ground from pick up, join them and solder them to ground of mono out put jack. Will that help to have stereo and mono signal where on stereo I can control each pick up individually and in mono both pick up will be together.
Please help and advise
Rad bro! Can you do one on a 5 switch ?!
I'm installing a Seymour Duncan Invader, and the diagram says to solder a
ground wire together with two others, is a video available showing how
to do that?
Nice vid. Question: Got a new Les Paul copy. Plays, sounds great, but, volume pots don't turn all the way off. Grounding issue? If so, how do I fix that. Thx!
Do the value of the pots all have to be the same? I.E. on a standard VVT jazz bass, If I wanted to use 500k or 1meg pots, do all three pots have to be 500k or 1meg respectfully or can I mix up the values? Currently, I'm about to wire a jazz bass with 1meg in both volumes and a 500k for the tone. Will that work? thanks
What would be the difference between 250k and 500k potentiometers?
250k dulls the hi end of the pickup more and is better suited for single coils so they don´t sound too harsh. 500k dulls it much less and is better suited for humbuckers since they don´t have as much hi end to begin with.
Hi tnx for sharing this.......... can u hlp Me my neck pickup is Ok but while plugging guitar only bridge pickup working .... & the nob is Also wrkng How to fix This ....???
Great video, but why is it it never works for me. Red wire to lug#1, white wire to lug#2, and black wire to lug#3/and to the bridge ground, simple right ?nope
What's your setup? Pickups, number of pots, 3-way switch, etc.?
your Gold.
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Bro... MS Paint lololololol
Awesome.
Thank you!