Taming the high-end on a set of Squier Classic Vibe JM pickups

[Maggieo]

I was LITERALLY looking for new 500k pots this morning for that very reason. Between the location of the JM volume pot, the low torque pots, and the quick taper, I need to find something else that fixes at least one of those issues.

I went with a full 500K Emerson wiring harness on my paisley JM, and a Vintage Pots 500K and paper-in-oil caps for my CVJM.

Which ones do you like better?

Still waiting to get the Squire back in action. Putting on Staytrem hardware, AVRI tailpiece, and '62AVRI pickups, along with the Vintage Pots. The Paisley is great, it's got the '65 AVRI PUPs and the 500K Emersons tame the icepick, but keep the cutting character of the '65s.

[loveinathens]

Tbh, I just ride the tone knob and it does the job. Taking a break from guitars and playing on hardware synths really made me appreciate just what affordances a stock JM has, and how much it could do for your sound. I run my guitars around 6-7 on the tone knob for my rig.

[Maggieo]

After waiting four months for my CVJM to be finished, it finally is! The AVRI '62s sound great with the Emerson 500k pots, especially through a Vox.

Oh, and the guy who swapped the pickups said the CVs were like MIJ pickups, with Strat-sized coils, FWIW.

[einpresstiefe]

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I think I've deduced from this thread that the stock pots are 1k in recent CV Jazzmaster, but it's not positively or directly stated.

Can someone please confirm lead circuit pot values?


Thanks

[Lobsterdeth]

you can reduce some of that top-end harshness of 1 meg pot jazzmasters by playing at 8 or 9 volume
i personally switched the pots on my avri to 500k cause i like having my guitar full on blast all the time and it also worked nicely, and it still sounds like a jazzmaster

[Mondaysoutar]

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I think I've deduced from this thread that the stock pots are 1k in recent CV Jazzmaster, but it's not positively or directly stated.

Can someone please confirm lead circuit pot values?


Thanks

1meg on both volume and tone man

[einpresstiefe]

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I think I've deduced from this thread that the stock pots are 1k in recent CV Jazzmaster, but it's not positively or directly stated.

Can someone please confirm lead circuit pot values?


Thanks

1meg on both volume and tone man

Thanks for the confirmation and correction. I'm like a non-auto ranging multimeter over here.

[DrippyReverbTremolo]

you can reduce some of that top-end harshness of 1 meg pot jazzmasters by playing at 8 or 9 volume

Exactly. And I set the treble on the amp a bit on the high side, but keep the tone pot around 5 for the neck and 4 or 3 for the bridge.

[Dr. Ooh]

On several of my Jags/JM's I have used black bobbin 280k pots on the lead circuit, and replaced the 50k tone pot on my rhythm circuit, so both are 1meg, and I've adjusted the tone cap to normal rhythm circuit cap value. Sometimes I have added a treble bleed on the rhythm circuit, sometimes I have wired for the pickup selector to work on the rhythm circuit.

At the very minimum changing the rhythm circuit to both 1 meg, and changing the tone cap, gives me the sounds I want. The darker sound of the 280k pots, and the option to flip to the traditional 1 meg sound. If I need the traditional rhythm circuit sound, I'll just roll way down on the rhythm circuit tone. Best of both worlds. I swear by this method.

[alexpigment]

On several of my Jags/JM's I have used black bobbin 280k pots on the lead circuit, and replaced the 50k tone pot on my rhythm circuit, so both are 1meg, and I've adjusted the tone cap to normal rhythm circuit cap value. Sometimes I have added a treble bleed on the rhythm circuit, sometimes I have wired for the pickup selector to work on the rhythm circuit.

At the very minimum changing the rhythm circuit to both 1 meg, and changing the tone cap, gives me the sounds I want. The darker sound of the 280k pots, and the option to flip to the traditional 1 meg sound. If I need the traditional rhythm circuit sound, I'll just roll way down on the rhythm circuit tone. Best of both worlds. I swear by this method.

I think there are quite a few of us here who do this as well. In the guitars where I actually still have a rhythm circuit wired in, it's used instead to make the guitar *brighter* than my lead circuit (with the latter using 250k pots). There are a few gotchas though. The biggest one - for me anyway - is that it's very hard to get useable controls on the rhythm circuit, so I end up just taking out the tone entirely and putting a treble bleed on the volume. And of course it's wired to work on bridge/middle/neck positions, because it's a bit of a missed opportunity to not do it this way.