Capacitor Placement

[timtam]

Oddly, the similar-generation SD diagram of the jag has the standard Fender wiring in the rhythm circuit, not the non-standard wiring they published for the same pot in the jazzmaster ...

[Shadoweclipse13]

Huh. At least they've published both...

[jorri]

What would be the difference in variations for the rhythm circuit, sound-wise? Any point to one vs the other? My instinct would be to wire a rhythm circuit the way Fender designed...

Just a mildly informed guess:
- there is more volume loss due to it being wired like volume with resistance in signal path
- there is no resonant peak. Like the cocked wah type effect when tone is very low.
- probably changes cutoff frequencies and amount off attenuation quite differently. A single resistor is different to a potential divider which applies a ratio. The fact there is resistance in signal "pushes" more signal to ground, so yes its likely stronger.

+Notice the Jag lead has an extra resistor. I think it affects taper of the control and basically negates some of the effects of wiring it this way.

[jorri]

Id say its a more perfect lower resonance highpass.

But one of those will reduce volume. You take frequencies, volume reduces.

Unless a big resonant peak is made like by the less natural sounding "regular" two wire way of wiring.

[Shadoweclipse13]

Awesome. Thanks for the reply Jorri!! I'll likely try out both to see what I like, but this is good information. I do wish I had more of a proper electrical theory background sometimes.