I just acquired a lovely Tele with a Filtertron / TV Jones pickup in the neck position and a traditional (but hot) Tele bridge pickup. The wiring harness is Obsidian, with 500k pots for vol and tone (and a treble bleed mod). Not surprisingly, the bridge pickup seems to object to this arrangement.
What would you do?
Change the bridge pickup to a virtual vintage model (essentially a humbucker but sounding like a single coil) so it works better at 500k?
Fit stacking 250k/500k pots, so there is a separate 250k and 500k loom in the guitar (might be a bit tight)
Revert to 250k pots and suck it up for the Neck pickup?
Do something clever with resistors to fake the pot mismatch?
Something else entirely?
Note, I want to keep the Neck pickup, so reverting to a standard single coil at the neck is not an option.
Advice gratefully received.
Telecaster wiring for odd pickup combinations
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Re: Telecaster wiring for odd pickup combinations
Take a 470k resistor – solder one end to where the hot wire of the bridge is soldered to on the switch.olegmcnoleg wrote: Do something clever with resistors to fake the pot mismatch?
Solder the other end to a ground point. Not sure where obsidian do theirs – often the back of a pot but likely not in your case
Job done – neck sees 500k, bridge sees 250k (approx) meaning the neck is keeps the brightness and the bridge gets its brightness toned down.
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Re: Telecaster wiring for odd pickup combinations
Good advice, and only two drops of solder needed, cheers Toany!TmcB wrote:Take a 470k resistor – solder one end to where the hot wire of the bridge is soldered to on the switch.olegmcnoleg wrote: Do something clever with resistors to fake the pot mismatch?
Solder the other end to a ground point. Not sure where obsidian do theirs – often the back of a pot but likely not in your case
Job done – neck sees 500k, bridge sees 250k (approx) meaning the neck is keeps the brightness and the bridge gets its brightness toned down.
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Re: Telecaster wiring for odd pickup combinations
Glad I'm not burning myself regularly for no reason
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