anyone use a DSD with 250K pots?

[Marshall SL12301]

What was the results? does it take away too much bite for the VH I tone? Ed MAY HAVE USED a 250K or even a 300K in the sunburst strat or the black strat?
If he had not yet butchered the ES 335 his would have just used the pots and electronics that were orignally on the strat? NO?

[JimiJames]

You are sadly mistaken.
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[Marshall SL12301]

You are sadly mistaken.
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taken care of!

[Marshall SL12301]

You are sadly mistaken.
Post a link to your classified here.

thanks jimi!
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[Ralle]

I'm using a 250k lin pot...
It feels more right for the early sound...
No tone controll

[jnewlyn]

300K for me. Probably close enough to a 250K but yeah, seems to have found the sweet spot.

[Marshall SL12301]

I'm using a 250k lin pot...
It feels more right for the early sound...
No tone controll

good to know since your tone is closer than most!

[Ralle]

Hmm... 300k... I tried that... I must say liked that... can't say tomatejto or tomato on that one... the 300k sounded juuuuuust a bit bigger... and thers's nothing wrong with that... just comes to show that Ed using a Gibson ( they usually had 300k pots ) is more than just a matter of when he did that...

[garbeaj]

This is interesting to me...I know Mark uses a 500k pot with his DSD. I'm intrigued about trying a 300k. I'm given to understand that Gibsons generally came or still come with a 300k pot as Ralle says. Is this so? Most of the interviews claimed it was a 500k pot from Ed's ES-335 guitar...

[Ralle]

To my understanding Gibson used 300k pots ( not in all moddels ) in the slightly early days... I think the 500k pots came in later... now it maybe so that there was 500's in back in the day as well...
I had 500k in untill like a couple of weeks ago... I put in 300 first, and then to 250 after that... I did that after reading the strat thread, and saw Ed's strange pu switch, and the possition of his vol pot... and that comes in a stock fender start...

[JimiJames]

I like to 'use' my volume. In other words in my technique requires 250 or 300 because I do incorporate volumes swells and other subtleties.
Manufacturers as a general rule utilize 250's for singles and 500 for hummers. Some players use a different value pot it to counter highs either adding or subtracting to taste. Others using different value and taper for the tone in combination with the volume and not necessarily the same for each.

.........+1 on the pickup height.
Your theory sounds reasonable. People do hear differently and some better than others.
Leave it to the experts but, if you can hear a difference that's what counts.
Fender does make those "no load" pots. I've used both 250K & 500K on various pickups
and it's all a matter of taste. (With or without a tone pot.)
So on the other hand one could cut/add highs just by changing pots opposed to changing the cap on the tone.

Out of all the combinations I've tried I prefer the(cts) Gibson 300k to work the humbucker.

[rgorke]

Would adding a cap in the line somewhere achieve a similar result? Like a tone cap mod if there were a tone control?

[Ralle]

If you put it in serie with a resistor that fit the tone pot value, yes...

[Marshall SL12301]

To my understanding Gibson used 300k pots ( not in all moddels ) in the slightly early days... I think the 500k pots came in later...

I read this too and then maybe the pot that was "borrowed" from his ES 335 was indeed a 300K on the frank then?

[garbeaj]

To my understanding Gibson used 300k pots ( not in all moddels ) in the slightly early days... I think the 500k pots came in later...

I read this too and then maybe the pot that was "borrowed" from his ES 335 was indeed a 300K on the frank then?

Could be...