What are the effects of the different pot values on a guitars tone?
There’s an effect on the brightness. Primarily because everything the pickup ‘sees’; the values of the pots, tone capacitors, the capacitance of the guitar’s wiring and also the guitar cable, all affect the highs slightly, in a way that’s more noticeable to the player than to a listener. Because it mostly affects the initial attack transients, right as we pick the string, the difference is less noticeable after a note has rung for a bit. The values of the pots and capacitors will all affect the tone of your guitar, changing these values will allow you to make small adjustments to the tone of most guitars.The most common standard values are typically 500K pots, and .02uf caps for Gibsons, and 250Kpots and .05uf caps for Fenders. These values have been changed over the years, but the basic effect is the same for all (passive) pickups. 1. LARGER value pots will shift the tone to a slightly brighter range, and may increase noise slightly. This is the reason many Fender guitars use the lowe
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