Neck humbucker too muddy with 250K pots in a Tele???

[RumorsOFsurF]

I want to install a humbucker in the neck position on my MIM Tele , and retain the single coil in the bridge...Will the neck humbucker sound too muddy through the 250K pots? 

If so, is there any way to fix the problem without changing pot values?  I don't want the bridge pickup any brighter...

[StevenO]

Do you use the tone knob on your teles? If not, remove the tone knob and then put another volume knob. Have the neck hum with a 500k and the bridge with the 250k. It's good stuff, my friend.

[Superfuzz]

BTW if you took away the tone pot you'll miss the load of the tone pot itself, right?
If my calculations are good then you need a 500k on the bridge PU and a then again a 750k pot for the HB, but it doesn't exist, so I'd put a 1M there.
I've the same problem on Jazzbass copy since I've removed the tone pot for putting a series/parallel switch.

[flatfiver]

You know, I was going to use Albert Collins as an example, but then I remembered that he played a '70s Tele with a humbucker added, and it probably already had 1meg pots.  It sounds to me like he plays a lot in the middle position.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgKo5OgraJ4

Squier makes a Standard Fat Tele, you could try finding one of those to see if you can palate the sound at all.  It's not exact but it might give you an idea.

[StevenO]

You know, I was going to use Albert Collins as an example, but then I remembered that he played a '70s Tele with a humbucker added, and it probably already had 1meg pots.  It sounds to me like he plays a lot in the middle position.

They called him the Ice Man for a reason...

[RumorsOFsurF]

You know, I was going to use Albert Collins as an example, but then I remembered that he played a '70s Tele with a humbucker added, and it probably already had 1meg pots.  It sounds to me like he plays a lot in the middle position.

They called him the Ice Man for a reason...

Good point!