If we weigh the negligible cost and effort of installing a treble bleed against the potentially prodigious payoff a volume pot capacitor looks to be a very smart investment indeed particularly for tube amp aficionados.
Treble bleed volume pot.
Get more uniform tone from 1 to 10 and a more rounded sound at low volume.
Each one of the values affects the other and the result is entirely dependent on your personal tastes.
The volume pot the capacitor and the resistor.
It s a common modification people have been doing for a while said jonathan parrish a fender engineer who designed the treble bleed circuits in the american professional series guitars.
Hand soldered here in our shop.
Wire this simple mod between the input and output lugs of your guitar volume control pot to smooth out treble bleed.
So heads up strat and tele slingers.
This is done to prevent the tone from becoming too thin in reduced volume settings and augment the tape of the pot.
By adding the resistor in parallel a small amount of all frequencies are allowed to bypass the volume pot along with the high frequencies that bled through the capacitor.
Here s how easily this is.
A 150k ohm 1 4 watt resistor 1 tolerance in parallel with a 001uf capacitor.
Typical capacitor values are between 001mfd and 003mfd.
Again this little mod works best with single coil pickups.