removing tone pot from TS and Rat Clones?

[tomnottom]

I do not adjust tone on my GGG ITS8 or Rodent. Can I just desolder them or do I need to jumper T1 to T3?  I am going to put them in one box (Thanks Zach, for the help on how to do this with the tube screamer green ringer) so I want more room. As always thanks in advance.

[aziltz]

I do not adjust tone on my GGG ITS8 or Rodent. Can I just desolder them or do I need to jumper T1 to T3?  I am going to put them in one box (Thanks Zach, for the help on how to do this with the tube screamer green ringer) so I want more room. As always thanks in advance.

you will have to look at the schematic a bit.  the TS tone control is active and not just a simple rolloff so removing the pot will disrupt the eq curve.

[BAARON]

You need to find the "sweet spot" where you leave your tone controls, then use a multimeter to measure the resistance on the pot and replace it with the closest value resistor you can find, to essentially replace the pot with a hardwired tone control.

If you remove the tone controls entirely, it'll significantly change the sound of the circuit.

So on the Rat, you need to measure the resistance between lugs 1 and 2 of the tone pot, and replace the pot with a resistor of the value that your multimeter gives you.
Similarly, on the ITS8, measure between 1 & 2 and put a resistor there, then between 2 & 3 and put a resistor there.

[aziltz]

You need to find the "sweet spot" where you leave your tone controls, then use a multimeter to measure the resistance on the pot and replace it with the closest value resistor you can find, to essentially replace the pot with a hardwired tone control.

If you remove the tone controls entirely, it'll significantly change the sound of the circuit.

So on the Rat, you need to measure the resistance between lugs 1 and 2 of the tone pot, and replace the pot with a resistor of the value that your multimeter gives you.
Similarly, on the ITS8, measure between 1 & 2 and put a resistor there, then between 2 & 3 and put a resistor there.

i didnt think you could measure resistance of something thats connected in a circuit.  wouldn't you have to remove it first?

[drewl]

It depends what's connected to the pot, and obviously you can't measure the resistance when it's powered up.

[BAARON]

i didnt think you could measure resistance of something thats connected in a circuit.  wouldn't you have to remove it first?

If there's something in parallel with it or if there's power flowing in the circuit, it'll mess up your reading... but that's not the case with the tone pot in the Rat OR the TS808.