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Cheebatone
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 Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject: Pot values in the Fender/Baker RF models... |
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I read somewhere the the pots in Robbens guitars were rated at 1000k (as opposed to the 500k pots normally used with H/B's). Is this true? And, if so, what difference does it make?
Actually, even if it's not true, what difference would it make?
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| Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: |
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All Robben's pots that I have dealt with were/are 500K. Maybe one of his axes along the way had 1000K, but I've never run across it.
Besides, Robben almost always runs his guitars wide open, using his volume pedal for amplitude and expression. When I go work with another artist I always have to retrain myself to turn the pots off, rather than full on, before I hand them their guitar.
If Robben does not have a volped with him, he will USUALLY turn his volpots either full-on or full-off.
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JackD
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:40 am Post subject: |
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| Daved wrote: | All Robben's pots that I have dealt with were/are 500K. Maybe one of his axes along the way had 1000K, but I've never run across it.
Besides, Robben almost always runs his guitars wide open, using his volume pedal for amplitude and expression. When I go work with another artist I always have to retrain myself to turn the pots off, rather than full on, before I hand them their guitar.
If Robben does not have a volped with him, he will USUALLY turn his volpots either full-on or full-off. |
For years I've known Robben does this. In fact, in one of his videos, he even states that he had the volume posts rendered inoperative (i.e., they were always on full). I've always found this surprising. I always play with the volume pots. I do this for gain levels and particularly for rythm playing, it seems to loosen up the pickup sounds by lowering the volume. Most importantly, when I have the selector in the middle position (both pickups on) I can taylor the sound by blending which pickup has more level (say bridge on 9 and neck on 7). IMHO, this can add alot more flexibility and sound options. In fact, I recently had my PRS Hollowbody II rewired so the the two knobs (which were 1 volume and 1 tone) were switched to two volume controls so I could do the blending thing. I guess this is just how I learned. My first guitar was an SG Jr. with one P-90. I had to learn how to get a lot of different sounds with one pickup and one volume & tone control. |
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Bill Morgan
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| JackD wrote: | | I recently had my PRS Hollowbody II rewired so the the two knobs (which were 1 volume and 1 tone) were switched to two volume controls so I could do the blending thing. I guess this is just how I learned. |
I like that blending thing too. Garth Webber has his guitar wired so that instead of two volumes he has one master volume and a blend pot. He uses the blend pot instead of a pickup selector, and constantly plays with it for subtle variations in tone. I bought a dual pot to try that in one of my guitars, but haven't gotten around to trying it yet. If you like blending the pickups, you might want to try that in one of your guitars.
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Michael
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Garth Webber has his guitar wired so that instead of two volumes he has one master volume and a blend pot. |
I had a blend pot installed on my Gibson ES335 per Garth's (recommendation/inspiration). The guitar looks the same, but with a lot of tonal horsepower. |
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