Re: Independent Tone Pots

Keith Adams wrote: 
Okay Dave if they are independent of each other then I'll gladly eat
crow pie.  Try this for me please. With the pots on 10 (and your guitar
plugged into your amp and it turned on of course)first turn one pot all
the way off and see if it affects the volume.  If it doesnt then put it
back on 10 and turn the other one down and see what happens. I'd
appreciate it .

I think it goes without saying that on a 2 pickup guitar with two tone controls that the tone pots work independently. They definately do on my SG and on my daughter's Epiphone Les Paul.

In their stock configuration, when the pickup selector is in the middle (both pickups on) the volume controls are both masters so if one or the other is on zero, there is no sound - as you are suggesting. But I rewired mine so that when the pickup selector is in the middle, activating both pickups, the volumes are independent of one another. If I crank the neck volume down to zero, the bridge volume still operates only the bridge pickup and vice versa. This leads to, for me anyway, an easier understanding of the controls and an easier way to blend the different sounds of the two pickups.

I used this wiring diagram to do it:

http://guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/product/WDUHH3T2202

I'm pretty sure Jim A. Wires his this way too for similar reasons.

Peace

DV



"Dave Van" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Keith Adams wrote:

In case you miss the tone pot post of old because its moved down on 

the

list. Would one of you kind gentlemen direct me to a schematic which
shows me how to wire two tone pots in the same circuit that work
independently of each other?   I'm always game to learn something


new.

I would be forever grateful.
Thanks so very much in advance.   Tootles



Keith,

I have no answers for this but I'm gonig to follow the resultant thread
becasue I have interest in learning this stuff too because I may be
starting another Strat project soon.

I'm pretty sure my Gibson SG tone controls are independant of one
another but I'm not sure if that meets your criteria of 'same cicuit'
as
I'm not really sure what that means.  My SG also has two volume
controls
that I have re-wired to work independantly of one another (following a
drawing I found on line) so I'm thinking maybe the use of a single
volume control makes the independant tone control idea not possible?

Could you detail the guitar's configuration exactly? How many pickups,
How many volume controls, pickup selector switch (three way, five way)?

Cheers

DV

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