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[Trevor Davies]

Thanks colin2121 and fender3x. Hopefully folks find the treble bleeds useful and at a fair price.

Colin2121, I think it is great that you have been around since 2017 and can remember information from then.

Fender3x, "all sorts of other things can affect your tone. Where you have the tone pot, length of cable etc". This topic is quite a deep rabbit hole if you fall into it! I think I am still falling!

[fender3x]

I think the option you came up with is a good one, partly because I suspect the main decision is whether one needs a tone bleed or not, and less which tone bleed one needs. On your instrument you have a tone control. On my basses I use a Sansamp Bass DI, that has several active tone controls. On my amp I have fixed, parametric and graphic EQ controls. And if I want to feed my insomnia I can begin worrying about the capacitance and resistance of my cables and their different lengths.

I like the idea of a tester, because it helps with the binary choice of whether to use a tone bleed or not. Once it's in, I am only opening up the guitar if I can't do what I want with all that fancy EQ ;-)

[Trevor Davies]

I think the option you came up with is a good one, partly because I suspect the main decision is whether one needs a tone bleed or not, and less which tone bleed one needs. On your instrument you have a tone control. On my basses I use a Sansamp Bass DI, that has several active tone controls. On my amp I have fixed, parametric and graphic EQ controls. And if I want to feed my insomnia I can begin worrying about the capacitance and resistance of my cables and their different lengths.

I like the idea of a tester, because it helps with the binary choice of whether to use a tone bleed or not. Once it's in, I am only opening up the guitar if I can't do what I want with all that fancy EQ ;-)

Yes, I agree that the main decision is - Will a treble bleed help your tone at lower volumes? The tester helps answer this without the need to solder.

Hopefully the 1nF in parallel with 150k ohm gives a big improvement.

Is this the best combination of capacitor and resistor is the next question. That could involve a lot more testing.