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Well I got sick of trying to figure it out so I ripped everything out and started again with new CTS 500K pots and a new 5-way switch.
The main reason I even started messing around is that I was concerned at the high level of ice-pick trebles I was getting because of the 1 Meg pots. The first thing I tried was the Fat Tele trick of putting a (1 Meg) resistor in parallel with the SC bridge PU, which made me realise that rolling off tops with the tone control is not really the same as what happens when the pot value is changed, because the pot value actually changes the whole resonance of the circuit, while the tone cap simply shunts some of the top end to ground.
What I settled on was using a 5-way switch with the following combinations:
1 - bridge SC
2 - bridge SC + neck HB
3 - HB
4 - bridge SC with 500k resistor in parallel (i.e. 250k equivalent) + neck HB
5 - bridge SC with 500k resistor in parallel (i.e. 250k equivalent)
So position 5 (normally neck PU) neck PU) is now a "standard" tele SC bridge PU into 250K, and position 5 (normally bridge PU) is the bridge SC PU into the full 500k pot.
I'm really happy with it, it gives the best of both worlds - a "normal" Tele and an extra-bright one. What is surprising is that positions 2 and 4 (bridge + neck) are noticably different, the nature of the mids changes even more than the highs.
I'm sure I'm probably not the first to do this, but I haven't found any other threads about this configuration. Anyone else tried this?
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