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Benjamin wrote:All the pots are 330K and I am 100% certain that aside from my use of an official 330K push-pull and the oil cap, she is 100% standard. When I tested those pots out of curiosity they were around 180K.
aceonbass wrote:180k pots are tone suckers, no matter what they're in. I like tone pots with a true 500k rating, as well as 250k pots. Tonal clarity is the result. If you have your tone and volumes dimed now, then you're probably looking for something your bass isn't giving you.
Korladis wrote:Dimed is the only useful setting for a tone knob, for me.
The only reason I don't remove the tone controls from my Rickenbackers entirely is because then I'd lose the push/pull pot for the bridge pickup, which I actually do use quite a bit.
Korladis wrote:aceonbass wrote:180k pots are tone suckers, no matter what they're in. I like tone pots with a true 500k rating, as well as 250k pots. Tonal clarity is the result. If you have your tone and volumes dimed now, then you're probably looking for something your bass isn't giving you.
Dimed is the only useful setting for a tone knob, for me.
The only reason I don't remove the tone controls from my Rickenbackers entirely is because then I'd lose the push/pull pot for the bridge pickup, which I actually do use quite a bit.
Benjamin wrote:...the teensiest bit of extra glass I was chasing.
henry5 wrote:Korladis wrote:aceonbass wrote:180k pots are tone suckers, no matter what they're in. I like tone pots with a true 500k rating, as well as 250k pots. Tonal clarity is the result. If you have your tone and volumes dimed now, then you're probably looking for something your bass isn't giving you.
Dimed is the only useful setting for a tone knob, for me.
The only reason I don't remove the tone controls from my Rickenbackers entirely is because then I'd lose the push/pull pot for the bridge pickup, which I actually do use quite a bit.
I seem to be unusual in that I fiddle with my tone pots all the time; often volumes too. Depends what sound I want for a particular passage.
Re the original question, try changing the pots. It’s the only way you’ll be able to decide for sure. I would however say, as someone who often eq’s quite heavily (as did most of my tone heroes), that if you tend to run your amp fairly flat I’d experiment with amp eq first.
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