humbucker installed: what pot values should I get?

[tpaul]

I finally found a humbucker for the neck position on the new partscaster Tele I put together: an old '80s Burny Vh-1 from an LPC. I actually got both humbuckers from the Burny and if this works out well, I may install the other one in my other partscaster Tele.

The pickup looks great and sounds nice - it has lots of balls - but it's slightly dark sounding. I'm wondering whether I should try higher value pots. Currently the regular 250K tele pots are in there. I've heard people say that humbuckers sound better with 500K or 1 meg pots. But then I wonder whether that's going to make the bridge pickup (A DiMarzio virtual vintage Tele bridge PU) sound too piercing. I assume the VV is intended to run through 250k pots. I've also heard about folks using different value pots for the volume and tone. I don't really understand how this works. And do the cap values matter?

Any suggestions or explanations would be helpful. I really don't want to have to replace these pots multiple times if I don't have to, but I'm not sure how to tell what values would work best.

Thanks!