Good demo. I see lots of comments about lower resistance being "warmer". The missing bit to the evaluation IMO is to also show the effect of the tone control. My theory is that the 1M "brighter" volume pot can sound a lot like a 500K or 250K if you roll off the tone a bit. Which seems to me like the 1M pot gives more sonic landscape to play with.
I'm sure you could achieve that with a bit of experimenting with capacitor/tone pot values. Even just turning the volume control down to around 7 or 8 will do it. For such a simple little circuit there are so many variations and so many ways of using it.
“I know it’s not a jazz master” 😂😂 gotta get out in front of those really dumb TH-cam comments. 1:32 I’m overhauling an old Epiphone semi-hollow and this was helpful, thank you.
Hi Steve, it's all just a matter of taste. I should make the same video but with a Strat bridge pickup, the 1 meg would be pretty harsh with that. Jazzmaster pickups are designed for 1Meg.
So in tone caps, the higher the resistance, the darker the tone, but in pots, it's the opposite. Can you please clarify? Thank you. Awesome sound on those Jazzmasters.
Hi, this video is about volume controls not tone controls. Volumes don't usually have caps. Caps and pots are quite different things. So here's how a tone control works. Caps are measured in Farads and although they do lots of cool stuff all we need to know is that they let treble through. The number of Farads relates to which treble frequencies are let through. The confusing part is these high frequencies are not sent to be part of the signal but sent to earth to be canceled out. So as you turn the tone pot it starts engaging the cap and sending some of your signal through the cap and on to earth to cancel the high end. The cap decides which frequencies and the tone pot decides how much of those frequencies are killed off. A higher value cap like a .047mf will send more of the highs to earth than a lower value.
@@MrGlynsPickups Thanks for that detailed reply. I think what threw me was the discrepancy between pots--regardless of their function, and caps. Whereas a lower rated cap will allow more high frequency to pass, a lower rated pot lets less high frequency pass. Also, I was regarding caps in an amplifier circuit. The underlying reasoning is that farads in a capacitor and resistance in a pot are two different components, and conflating the functionality of the two is incorrect.
Hi Glyn, please excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't just turning the tone pot down a little have the same effect or just turning down the treble on the Amp if you preferred a not so bright tone, I turn the tone pot down on my J.M and Jaguar because I find them a little too bright, or would I be better off, in your opinion, just putting in 250K pots? I'm getting on in years and I do find it a bit confusing.
Nice demo. To my ears, I prefer the 250k pots. They sounded a lot smoother to me but didn't muddy the high end. Question: Can you or would you even mix pot types? Say 250k for the volume and 500k for the tone?
Excellent video thanks for that. I've got 250K on my paranormal Jaguar and the tone muddys up quickly. I read somewhere that I should go to 1Megs [they are standard at that]. I think I'll go straight to 1Meg & add a a 12 pole Varitone switch with a bypass on Zero so I get the best of all worlds. [hoping]
Is this not just because you are sending more signal to earth with a lower resistance pot? That is the difference between the pots. Less resistance to ground. If you lowered the gain on the amp to the same would you get the same effect?
Yeah, everything at 10, I tried to play as consistently as I could, all settings the same. The difference between 250 and 500 is much more obvious the louder you get because you feel that difference in sensitivity. The way pickups and electronics 'feel' when you play isn't talked about much. It's that feedback loop between the attack of the note and your fingers. You know how it is when you change a set of pickups eh.
Hi Dave, thanks for asking. It isn't a 'requirement', more of a convention. Most humbuckers are designed with 500k pots in mind but there's certainly no need to follow that. If your pickup is too bright then you could try a 250k or even 300k. Jazzmasters switch from 1Meg (1000k) on the lower circuit to 250k on the upper circuit. It just gives a different tone.
Perfect demo Glyn.
Thanks Mate
One of the clearest vids showcasing the difference, thank you
To my ears, the 500k are a nice balance for P90 type single coils at the neck since they can get murky. Great demonstration. Thank you. .
Good demo. I see lots of comments about lower resistance being "warmer". The missing bit to the evaluation IMO is to also show the effect of the tone control. My theory is that the 1M "brighter" volume pot can sound a lot like a 500K or 250K if you roll off the tone a bit. Which seems to me like the 1M pot gives more sonic landscape to play with.
I'm sure you could achieve that with a bit of experimenting with capacitor/tone pot values. Even just turning the volume control down to around 7 or 8 will do it. For such a simple little circuit there are so many variations and so many ways of using it.
0:38 1MEG
1:13 500k
1:40 250k
“I know it’s not a jazz master” 😂😂 gotta get out in front of those really dumb TH-cam comments. 1:32
I’m overhauling an old Epiphone semi-hollow and this was helpful, thank you.
First time I've seen a demo with these different pots and basically all LP players need a 1 meg in the neck position for sure. Thanks.
Hi Steve, it's all just a matter of taste. I should make the same video but with a Strat bridge pickup, the 1 meg would be pretty harsh with that. Jazzmaster pickups are designed for 1Meg.
Great demo! Thinking about putting 500k pots in my jazzmaster. The middle position with the 1meg pots is currently too harsh for me.
Just try it - you've nothing to loose.
So in tone caps, the higher the resistance, the darker the tone, but in pots, it's the opposite. Can you please clarify? Thank you. Awesome sound on those Jazzmasters.
Hi, this video is about volume controls not tone controls. Volumes don't usually have caps.
Caps and pots are quite different things.
So here's how a tone control works.
Caps are measured in Farads and although they do lots of cool stuff all we need to know is that they let treble through.
The number of Farads relates to which treble frequencies are let through.
The confusing part is these high frequencies are not sent to be part of the signal but sent to earth to be canceled out.
So as you turn the tone pot it starts engaging the cap and sending some of your signal through the cap and on to earth to cancel the high end.
The cap decides which frequencies and the tone pot decides how much of those frequencies are killed off.
A higher value cap like a .047mf will send more of the highs to earth than a lower value.
@@MrGlynsPickups Thanks for that detailed reply. I think what threw me was the discrepancy between pots--regardless of their function, and caps. Whereas a lower rated cap will allow more high frequency to pass, a lower rated pot lets less high frequency pass. Also, I was regarding caps in an amplifier circuit. The underlying reasoning is that farads in a capacitor and resistance in a pot are two different components, and conflating the functionality of the two is incorrect.
Hi Glyn, please excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't just turning the tone pot down a little have the same effect or just turning down the treble on the Amp if you preferred a not so bright tone, I turn the tone pot down on my J.M and Jaguar because I find them a little too bright, or would I be better off, in your opinion, just putting in 250K pots? I'm getting on in years and I do find it a bit confusing.
Nice demo. To my ears, I prefer the 250k pots. They sounded a lot smoother to me but didn't muddy the high end.
Question: Can you or would you even mix pot types? Say 250k for the volume and 500k for the tone?
Absolutely, do some experimenting. The tone cap value is worth playing with too. Then there's treble bleeds...
Excellent video thanks for that.
I've got 250K on my paranormal Jaguar and the tone muddys up quickly. I read somewhere that I should go to 1Megs [they are standard at that].
I think I'll go straight to 1Meg & add a a 12 pole Varitone switch with a bypass on Zero so I get the best of all worlds. [hoping]
You can add switchable resistors.
Is this not just because you are sending more signal to earth with a lower resistance pot? That is the difference between the pots. Less resistance to ground. If you lowered the gain on the amp to the same would you get the same effect?
Hey, great demo! Just checking something; were you switching out both the volume and tone pots or just the volume pot?
Hi, the tone pot was 500KOhm with a 0.22 cap the whole time. Always best just to change one thing eh.
Hi Glyn, thanks for this. Were all of the pots demoed at 10? Sorry if I'm being obtuse, just trying to get my head around this. Cheers.
Yeah, everything at 10, I tried to play as consistently as I could, all settings the same.
The difference between 250 and 500 is much more obvious the louder you get because you feel that difference in sensitivity.
The way pickups and electronics 'feel' when you play isn't talked about much. It's that feedback loop between the attack of the note and your fingers.
You know how it is when you change a set of pickups eh.
@@MrGlynsPickups Yep. Thanks Glyn, this video had been enlightening. I've never had a variety of pots on hand to try this myself. Cheers.
I tried 1M pots in my LP and liked what I heard. The deal breaker was the pot's taper. I went back to the 500k pots.
Interesting, everything makes a difference.
You can also tame a too bright stratocaster with 100k
Exactly, or playing with the volume on around 7 or 8 and saving full volume for when you need to cut through.
I guess I attended too many hardcore/metal shows bc I can't really hear a difference ?
Hi Glyn, I'm Glyn as well!
Pleased to meet you
I thought Humbuckers required 500k pots. No?
Hi Dave, thanks for asking. It isn't a 'requirement', more of a convention.
Most humbuckers are designed with 500k pots in mind but there's certainly no need to follow that.
If your pickup is too bright then you could try a 250k or even 300k. Jazzmasters switch from 1Meg (1000k) on the lower circuit to 250k on the upper circuit. It just gives a different tone.
To my ears 500k works best.
And that's what matters - the sound.
500k sound the best
Agreed
The higher you go the brighter , opposite applies . Caps are opposite of that principle
This video is demonstrating the sound of different value pots.
as usual...the presenter is playing to show off his ability and not to illustrate the video
Thanks Mate, I'll try and play badly next time.
Not at all . Where do you get this ? Do people just have not so good ears ?