250k Pots Vs 500k Pots – Sound Comparison
Should You Choose 25k or 500k pots
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Originally posted by UCUMBIYslSt3wQgJwWrDP5dQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WYk7YaH770
Just put 500 k pots in my thinline set down for a break and this pops up youtube is spying on me????????
i have a les paul with p90s and 250k pots… it was driving me crazy as it sounded so tinny and hollow, I thought the p90s were bad…. before I jumped to new pickups, I swapped out the 250k for 500k and it came alive, nice full sounding, aggressive tone and bite on the p90s!! Im happy I made the change because that was just nasty sounding prior.
Got a Donner 335 Jazz guitar they replaced and didn't require the original to be sent back. I know nothing but I can say the Tone Pots only work around number 2 after that no notable difference. They agreed and said defective but the replacement guitar is the same. So I'm thinking I need to change the tone Pots these are Humbuckers with Volumes Split pull coil on both volumes. I note a capacitor need to be fitted. I guess I don't know what I need to get a gradual noticeable and usable tone pot as at the moment effectively it works like a switch. Hope this makes some sense and any advice would be appreciated. I've never done any changes myself and thinking of taking it on but I need to know what I need.
BASS SPEAKING- Do notice with Humbuckers, you lose the INDIVIDUALITY of each string. (Split Coil P/J) Humbuckers 25K Actives- Much more cloudy/Warmer sound. Weird
SO! Why do Active Bass pups (Humbuckers) use 25K? Such as EMG's P/J sets?
BLIMEY! 330K? ????
Very Informative, Thanks!
yo my name is Dylan too!! Always good to see another Dylan
Get to the point you're not on a talk show STF.U
does it also apply to a les paul or es335 guitar with 4pots in it? what if i want it to be warmer or jazzier, what value of pots should i use?
I have pretty much the same view as you. I much rather have the guitar be too bright out of the gate and I can tame that with eq or the tone pot. If the guitar is dark or muddy out of the gate then in my opinion and experience it’s almost improbable to create what I call that good treble. I also agree the mid range and the cut just gets bigger with the 500k. I’ve been using 500k in all of my guitars including typical telecasters for a long time. Nice video. Well done.
Having a full frequency response aka a flat response wasn’t this the premise of the original active pickups.
I get the frequency part of it but does it make a difference in output amplitude? I think it should if it’s part of a voltage divider circuit.
That glide 9:20 ???? thank you for all
Would you recommend using 250k on a neck HB 335 guitar for Jazz?
The common approach to make it more jazz boxey is fat flatwounds ebony neck 0.047 caps or tone rolled back.
But using 250k for instead 500k seems to be a possibility to make the 335 more like a jazzbox?
Remember what he said about the tone, use it.
For some of my guitars I wire each pickup direct to the output and have separate output jacks for each pickup. That way you can have separate amps for each pickup, which can sound massive when you blend/pan them. It helps to have a master compressor/limiter as a safety net to level any significant EQ or volume jumps when switching.
"Here are five crap guitars that nobody wants and NONE of them have the traditional pots"
Dylan thank you man for time and experience. Have you tried 1 meg potetiometer? I loved the 500k. Yes it moved the cue of the sonic spectrum. The pickups had more "presence" cover more frequencies? Thank you again Dylan.
Any opinion if I’m trying to use a push-pull pot to coil split a humbucker? Have one on the bridge pickup and I want the option to switch to single coil. Should I get a 500 push-pull?
In my opinion, 500k pots and humbuckers go hand-in-hand.
Jazzmasters need 1 meg pots to dial in that vintage tone.
The wide range pups in those Squier teles have alnico magnets instead of the original CuNiFe magnets, and you're going to need those to get that og sound.
Great video sir!
Many thanks.
My Jazzmaster has 1M pots in the lead position and 250K in the rhythm position (small switch up). So that was it, 1M= more jangle, 250K = more jazz. Have I got that right?
Personally, its 500k for me. Easier to remove then add
There really should be a 420k pot
Would be great to hear a single coil comparrison
Thank you Dylan. I've just finished a scratch built guitar for my Grandson with a Jeff Beck in the bridge and a Single coil in the neck do the 500K values still apply for this kind of mix and what value cap would you suggest please? Thanks
Great video! Thanks for the information. I just have to say that I'm on the opposite side.???? You said, if you don't have those highs, it's not there, you can't take it back. Yes, true, you can't take exactly that frequencies back, but for me it's just too shrill.
My experience is that if I have those shrill, harsh highs I just can't get rid of them, but if it sounds balanced and smooth but just a little dark, I can still add some highs and it won't be ear-piercing to me.
So I think the question is: Do you like or dislike exactly those frequencies? ????
Whats the truth about 1 meg ohm pots?
Whats the truth about 1 meg ohm pots?
375 k pots by Fender
500k not only has more high definition, but it sounds deeper, like 3 dimensional
Thank you so much for this! Learned a lot!
I would like to see the same comparison with a standard Tele, which most players would own, The wide range version most people do not own and are not familiar with. It was a good demo though and I did like the 500K better. What if you used a 500 on the vol, and 250 on the tone, do you ever mix values?
250K volume and 1 Meg tone with a .022 cap between as the best compromise.
Put 500k strat and 1meg humbuckers
FRESH PØTS!!!
I was recently building a partscaster and all I had were 500k pots…. They sound so much better than 250k in strats. Everyone who plays it keeps asking me how to make theirs sound like that one ????
This argument is over for me. You can always roll back the tone or insert an eq here or there. No sense in having 250 any more unless you want to run a very naked rig. Even then there is a treble pot on your amp. I know there are other subtle differences, but the most noticeable is the top end roll off, which can be solved with other choices.
My MIM 69 thinline had 1M pots. The bright spank was so off the wall that I never enjoyed playing it. I put 250k pots in to tame it a bit and it became my fav guitar.
Everyone may think I’m tone deaf, but for the telecaster itself I like the 250k resistance. The 500k sounded great too, but to me didn’t have the tele sound I’d expect for certain styles. I use 500k’s in my Stratocaster and Jazzmaster. Sorry great demo it’s just my personal preference and what my ears are drawn to.
I would like to warm up the tone on my Fender Player Jaguar. I can’t determine if I have 250 or 500. Has anyone worked on a Jaguar
VERY informative video
A lot of Jackson dinky users swear by changing to 500k pots instead of the 250k that are stock.
I wish you had shown us how it sounds with the tone at eight and the tone at one for both pots.
The 500k pots seemed to have a touch more snap to them.
500k all the way! The 250k sounds honkey in the worst possible way.