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Topic: Tone pot for steel question |
George King
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Woodlawn,Illinois
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Posted 1 Oct 2016 1:00 pm |
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| Needing some advice here, I have a double neck sho bud non pedal steel with single coil pickups and I'm wanting to ad a 1 meg tone pot that I bought from Clinesmith to the guitar. My question is how do I wire it up and does it need anything like a cap in line or ect? Trying to replicate the old Hank Williams records sound on steel. Thanks |
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Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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George King
From:
Woodlawn,Illinois
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Posted 2 Oct 2016 4:51 am
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| Thanks Scott , that helps. |
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Larry Carlson
From:
My Computer
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Posted 2 Oct 2016 6:37 am
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Hey Scott............
Wow am I glad I stumbled on to those diagrams.
Thanks for putting that up.
It will help me a lot too..... 
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George King
From:
Woodlawn,Illinois
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Posted 2 Oct 2016 8:28 am
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| I wasn't sure what cap to use so I ordered a .02uf to start with . Don't know if that is right or not. |
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George King
From:
Woodlawn,Illinois
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Posted 2 Oct 2016 8:31 am
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| I'm also still getting a lot of hum from the pickups. I had them grounded together and to the metal screws to the bridge but it actually got better when I didn't ground the pickups to the bridge at all , but I've still got some. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 2 Oct 2016 9:13 am
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http://www.1728.org/guitar.htm
Here's another diagram page. It's showing .02 mfd. cap for typical Fender style wiring and .047mfd. cap for Gibby style 2 vol, 2 tone wiring. |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2016 9:18 pm
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The cap simply controls the maximum amount of highs that will be rolled off. It's a totally passive system, so the control can't increase anything - it's only "subtractive". The value of the pot can also be changed - while a tiny bit more highs leak through with higher values some players like the "slope" or the rolloff point of different values - 1 meg, 500k or 250k are all fine, as are caps from .02uf-.1uf. Won't hurt anything at all to experiment.
As far as the hum issue goes I suggest taking it to a qualified guitar tech. It's a very common problem. If any shielding has been added to pickup cavities and isn't soldered to ground it acts like a "hum antenna", and tying multiple pickup grounds together can, depending on how the pickups are wood, create phase or ground loop issues. If you were not aware of how to wire a tone pot to start with you're probably over your head in solving hum issues - many common "solutions" that people might recommend simply make things worse.
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1930's/40's Rickenbacher/Rickenbacker 6&8 string lap steels
1921 Weissenborn Style 2; Hilo&Schireson hollownecks
Appalachian, Regal & Dobro squarenecks
1959 Fender 400 9+2 B6;1960's Fender 800 3+3+2; 1948 Fender Dual-8 Professional |
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