Pot advice

[XPAULPITT]

My SG standard was always a bit dark sounding. I recently changed pickups to EMG HZs (H4 & H4A). I love how they sound but it seemed to get even darker. After some research I switched out the PCB setup with the 300K volume pots to all 500K audio taper CTS pots. It sounds way better now but the volume knobs have alot less range now. I used audio taper for the volumes as most people suggested. Would linear taper restore some of the range or is that just a sacrifice that you have to make with 500K pots?

[Motörheadbanger]

Pot advice? Yes definitely.

[John Rutherford]

My SG standard was always a bit dark sounding. I recently changed pickups to EMG HZs (H4 & H4A). I love how they sound but it seemed to get even darker. After some research I switched out the PCB setup with the 300K volume pots to all 500K audio taper CTS pots. It sounds way better now but the volume knobs have alot less range now. I used audio taper for the volumes as most people suggested. Would linear taper restore some of the range or is that just a sacrifice that you have to make with 500K pots?

 

 

No, audio taper pots [ logarithmic ] have the more gradual range, it's the Linear pots that seem to start loud at 2 then aren't that much

louder at 10 [ my volume pots go to 11 :) ].

 

I've been down the dead end road of despair and desolation re pots on Gibsons.

I've done all the permutations of Linear V Log, 500K V 300K and all variations of same and come to the conclusion

that it matters little and any " difference" one hears is a mere figment of a fevered wish to hear a difference.

 

All my P90 Gibbys have the factory standard 300K Lin Volume + 500K Log Tone and that does for me.

 

There endeth the lesson.

[dem00n]

Always buy it when its green, if its a other color i dont recommend.