Guitar volume pot mod

BashCoder · Post by **BashCoder** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:53 pm

Has anyone done this mod on their guitar's volume pot? See the bottom triangle in the graphic below, from Liney Fralin's site. I have a Gretsch 6120DC, and it really sounds like crap if you turn down the master volume knob. I have a mustard cap and an AB CC resistor I could put in parallel with it...

Bad Kitty · Post by **Bad Kitty** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:58 pm

I did that for my guitar. It's really nice not to lose all the highs when you turn it down. I also put a small inductor on my tone control to turn it into a mid cut. That's handy too. Much more musical IMHO.

JD · Post by JD » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:41 pm

I'm not crazy about the phase change mod, sounds linda "honk" like.

The coil tap is useful but I like to do the parallel/series mod better for a brighter sound as you do not lose the pickups' humbucking feature or output as much as just a coil tap.