volume pots,tone pots,tone caps on diy pickup

[petemoore]

  The right pot and pickup, treble bleed cap.
  Or whatever works, of course there are many different ways to skin a mule.
  I have 1 LP with high value neck PU pot, and a treble bleed cap across it's signal path lugs, this turns it into a voicing option as much as a volume control, is a much better volume control than...
  The standard value of my other LP volume pots, if it was easy Idda ripped and re-potted this guitar, with the treble-bleed caps added, I get a nice smooth "treble increasing" control when rolling volume from 10 to 9, 9 to 8.4, below that there's really no change until about 2, then I actually get 'volume control' [about like unmodded] but it is very bunched up and routinely shunts all signal to ground if I try to use it. The volume control is all in a range between settings 1 and .4...jumpy...not recommended for use as a volume control, down there the sound is mud anyway.
  "Treble increasing" is a misnomer but describes the way the volume control pot [750k IIRC] with a 'large' treble bleed cap works as it's turned CCW, reduce the cap value for flatter frequency response.

[Paul Marossy]

"What we have here is a failure to communicate."  

Volume & tone pot sizes are really a subjective topic. As well as tone cap values. I have to agree with BAARON for the most part on the points he makes.

[Electric_Death]

I'm going to leave this thread, as I prefer not to argue with trolls who misuse words like "voltage frequency" without knowing what they mean, don't listen to others who are trying to explain the concepts rationally, and straight up insult them for trying to be helpful.

I'm not even going to point out all the wrong things you just said in your post, because it would be a waste of my time.  I think they should speak for themselves.

I'm done with you.  Thank you for making DIYstompboxes a lot less pleasant for me and a handful of other users who have had to deal with your constantly inflammatory posts recently.

Kid you're the one trying to talk down to me and build yourself up in the process. You weren't trying to be helpful, you were trying to degrade me.
By voltage frequency, I mean the voltage generated at any given frequency produced by the pickups. The power of the magnet in relation to the coil windings is going to determine just how much voltage is produced by plucking the string as well as how hard you pick. Therefore your equations are absolute nonsense and you know it, you were just arrogant and assumed I'm too stupid to realize these factors play a very crucial role in output and performance. There are so many factors at play that the load placed on the pickups by the pots is in some senses, trivial. The primary issue with the pots is what frequencies are they cutting off at any given position other than wide open or in terms of the tone pot, closed.

But I'm not and this proves quite simply you were attempting to talk down to me like I'm beneath you and you failed miserably.

[aron]

This thread is no longer useful and neither is the feedback I got personally.