Wouldn't it be awesome....... (stacked pot content)

[Telenator]

........if the people who make stacked pots would mix it up a little?

Imagine having a stacked pot with a 250k on top for the single coil and a 500k on the bottom for the humbucker?! All on one knob?!

You could use a single volume knob for both pickups and have the ideal value for each mixing hums and singles.

You'd think someone would have this up by now.

[1962guitargeek]

Here's one.

And another

and another...


I need a life....

[Telenator]

Thanks, but I should have been more specific. I want one where there is a single shaft so both pots turn together.

Imagine a Tele with a bucker in the neck and a single coil in the bridge and only one volume control.

[chucksmi]

Bob, it can be done with a single pot. You install a 500K pot and wire such that when the single coil is selected you put a 500K resistor in parallel with the volume pot. Interestingly, it doesn't seem to affect the taper on the pot as much as you'd think it would. It's very usable. My white Strat has a 1M volume with a 1M in parallel and the volume is really usable.

[Telenator]

Cool! I'll have to try that!

[Steve-0-]

There is another option....
I butchered a 250k CTS pot and a 500k CTS pot together onto the same shaft. Was a little tricky and took a bit of thinking, but it works, and works well. Has the advantage that you can have a seperate tone cap for each pickup. I have a 300K tone pot. 250K volume for a Bareknuckle Brown Sugar in the bridge with a 0.047 cap, and a 500k volume with 0.022 cap for the '69 Gibson mini-hum in the neck. That one was a bit mushy and dark to start with but now sounds absolutely awesome. They both balance perfectly!!!

Cheers,

Steve

[1962guitargeek]

You could shim (jam) the outside sleeve to the inside shaft.
Or solder them together.
Or rtv them together.
Or drill a hole so the set screw in the knob goes thru the sleeve and against the inner post.

[Chris Leger]

Originally Posted by Steve-0-

There is another option....
I butchered a 250k CTS pot and a 500k CTS pot together onto the same shaft. Was a little tricky and took a bit of thinking, but it works, and works well.

I do the same - I make my own from 2 dual pots. I end up with a pair of dual pots with different values on the same shaft.

[1962guitargeek]

I'm a bit rusty on my electronic theory, but I'm having a brain fart.

A TBX control is a 1 meg and a 250k stacked pot with a common shaft. Now, if I recall you could put another 1 meg in series with the original 1 meg and get your 500k.
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Did I get this right?

lemme check sumthin here....

o.k. I'm not getting an ohm reading on the 250k portion of my tbx, so I'm performing an autopsy....hang in there...

O.K. the "band" in the 250k is coated in something that allows it to only read resistance for @ 1/3 of it's travel. ?? It looks identical to the 1meg portion. looks like they fixed it that way so it only works for it's half of the treble cut.


Now I could take apart a 500k and 250k pot, swap in the "rings" and make what you are looking for.


more to come.......

[pbenn]

And I'm no tech, but:

What about a stacked pot where one part is a 250K tone and the other part is a blend control a la '52 down?

And can't blend controls be configured to blend lead into rhythm instead of rhythm into lead?

(Isn't the *lack* of an actual tone pot the technological Achilles heel of the pan pot wiring?)

[1962guitargeek]

I'm lacking a cts 500k pot, so I put the 250k on the bottom. I'm reassembling the 250k with the 1 meg innards. gonna use it for a blender pot on 1 of my strats.

Damn, I AM a geek. This is gonna work!

Telenator, I'll pick up a pot this weekend. PM me with your address & I'll send it to you as soon as it's done.

[chucksmi]

Originally Posted by 1962guitargeek

...A TBX control is a 1 meg and a 250k stacked pot with a common shaft. Now, if I recall you could put another 1 meg in series with the original 1 meg and get your 500k.
a
Did I get this right?

Not quite, If you did it your way you'd have 2M. If you put a 1M in Parallel with 1M, you get 500K.

[1962guitargeek]

O.K. gang. Here's the short version. It's so simple I slap myself on the forehead. The end result - just swap out the wafers in the TBX. You can create just about any combo you need. Keep in mind I'm using all CTS components, so they fit together.

Thanks to Rob DiStefano - got the idea from his post on adjusting and creating your own no load pots.


Man, I love this place.

[ZiggyZipgun]

I recently bought both a late '50s Fender 400 pedal steel guitar, and a '50s Fender volume pedal (the low-profile type with both jacks on one side). I'm not much of a pedal steel player - in fact, I really only play lap steel in a Pink Floyd sort of capacity, which is where the sound I'm trying to create comes from. I'm aiming for a more vowel-like effect from the volume pedal, and I'm thinking that a dual-ganged pot is the way to go: one for the volume, naturally, and the other as a tandem tone control, so that at full volume, the tone control is also all the way up, and so on. However, I'm not sure what tapers would work best for either one, as I've replaced all pots in all of my guitars with Dimarzio Custom Taper pots. Not only does Dimarzio not make any dual-ganged pots, but I also need a longer, solid shaft. Ernie Ball makes a dual-ganged 500k Linear pot for their stereo volume pedal and a 250k audio taper pot for their mono volume pedals....I have the 250k one on its way (I needed a new shaft pulley), so should I just get the stereo one and butcher it? Would the 500k tone control sound different (compared to a 250k) with a big P90 pickup?

[cdhopkin]

Speaking of dual-ganged pots does anybody know if CTS makes a dual ganged linear 500k pot?

[cowie86]

while we're on the subject of stacked pots- where get you get quality stacked 250k/250k pots? I wanna put tone and volume both on one dual concentric Danelectro-style.

thanks in advance