[Holdgate]

I have a Tele with a neck humbucker - its a bit too hot for what I want but has a nice tone. I can get the clean tone I want with the vol pot turned almost all the way down & the amp turned up. Doing it this way I lose any real control over volume using the guitar controls. What I'd like to do is attenuate the humbucker output a bit to avoid overdriving the amp & thereby get a bit more control over volume from the guitar. Is there any way to do this - I thought maybe bleeding some of the signal to ground via a resistor at the output jack might do it ... or is this way too simplistic ? any ideas anyone ?