Jaguar Volume Drop Off
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 6:33 pm
So I pulled out a Jaguar I hadn't played in a while and fiddling the knobs I was getting thin and shrill tones. Opened up the guitar and for some reason I had put a treble bleed in there - no idea why, I don't like them. I cut the treble out and like what I am now hearing except for the following:
- volume pot - rapid volume drop off when rolling down the volume pot. If 10 is full, 9 cleans up nicely. 8.5 the volume just drops off. There's essentially no range - I have to do micro adjustments between 9 and 8.5 to get any variations. As soon as I go below 8.5 the volume drops off dramatically and tapers off evenly to 0.
- tone pot - Roll off from 10 to 9/8.5 drops off volume. Rolling tone off further, the volume doesn't change much and treble doesn't roll off until I get closer to 2 or 3 on the tone pot.
Prior to cutting out the treble bleed, the volume pot had greater range and a more reasonable sweep.
Both pots are CTS 1M audio and the tone has the mysterious 56k across lugs 2 and 3.
Anyone have any thoughts on this and how I can get more usable pots?
Thanks
- volume pot - rapid volume drop off when rolling down the volume pot. If 10 is full, 9 cleans up nicely. 8.5 the volume just drops off. There's essentially no range - I have to do micro adjustments between 9 and 8.5 to get any variations. As soon as I go below 8.5 the volume drops off dramatically and tapers off evenly to 0.
- tone pot - Roll off from 10 to 9/8.5 drops off volume. Rolling tone off further, the volume doesn't change much and treble doesn't roll off until I get closer to 2 or 3 on the tone pot.
Prior to cutting out the treble bleed, the volume pot had greater range and a more reasonable sweep.
Both pots are CTS 1M audio and the tone has the mysterious 56k across lugs 2 and 3.
Anyone have any thoughts on this and how I can get more usable pots?
Thanks
