Doc, it was probably down to a better overall ground connection after you soldered the pots yourself. Even cheap mini pots make a good circuit connection at full volume, where the input and output are shorted together.
Doc, it was probably down to a better overall ground connection after you soldered the pots yourself. Even cheap mini pots make a good circuit connection at full volume, where the input and output are shorted together.
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
You could be right, the passive pickup wiring systems commonly used in most electric guitars are high-impedance circuits, so I guess making sure the ground connections in them are good is essential to get the best tone out of them, if my ears aren't lying to me, I swear I can hear a difference in tone between a 500k B pot and a 500k A pot, the 500k B pot seems to sound slightly harsh to my ears, and a 500k A pot seems to have a smoother overall tone that sounds more "musical" to my ears, the difference between a 500k B and a 500k A pot is that a B type pot is linear whereas an A type pot is logarithmic and more or less matches the response of the human ears, both are 500k pots so you'd think that they would "sound" the same, but to my ears the A type pot seems to sound sweeter for a lack of a better word, my theory anyway.
And yes, I agree, those Pure Tone 1/4 inch jacks are great, they are a big improvement over the standard ones since the Pure Tone jacks feature two contacts for the ground or sleeve connection and two for the tip connection for more positive contacts, I definitely highly recommend buying them, I've got one installed in my Mexican Telecaster, works great, I'll definitely buy more of them.
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