I was recently asked this questions ..................

do push pull pots rob tone ?

  • yes

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • no

    Votes: 5 26.3%

  • beans give me gas

    Votes: 14 73.7%
  • Total voters
    19
eSGEe said:
yes total click bait --- but I was ASKED......

do "push pull pots" rob tone ?
(in the application of a "modern" les paul ) the questionee was unhappy with the tone of his particular les paul and ------was discussing the pots said he read it online someplace (I cant find it) that real ("real") bourns or similar "old school" potentiometers are better than the "new" push pulls and that the push pulls
"rob tone" essentially making a humbucker
1. NOT a full humbucker and
2. not a true single coil
so his theory was the push pulls turned reasonably good pickups to pure poop ...... and he was told "dont change your pickups--- change your POTS!!!"---

ugh the minutia....... so I ask you the Minutia Militia ------

do they?
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I put a Jersey Shore 21 Tone Harness in a Les Paul and its amazing. No tone coloration.
 
eSGEe said:
oh my this seems yummy
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I had one. It was more boring than a $50 Fender combo with an 8 inch speaker.
 
Clockworkmike said:
most factory guitars with coil splitting use 500k/250k dpdt pots which does EXACTLY what it's supposed to: 500k on full humbucker, 250k on single coil/split mode.
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I did not these even existed and it is a very cool option. I have never encountered these on any guitar, including high end PRS and Tom Anderson, so I don't think it is a solution all manufacturers take advantage of. Have you come across them on a stock guitar?
 
RVA said:
I did not these even existed and it is a very cool option. I have never encountered these on any guitar, including high end PRS and Tom Anderson, so I don't think it is a solution all manufacturers take advantage of. Have you come across them on a stock guitar?
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I don't know what they did on my SG Modern, but it works. When you split the coils/tap whatever it is you go from a full range humbucker to a midrange heavy single coil sound with no volume drop and no mudiness. I like it.
 
RVA said:
I did not these even existed and it is a very cool option. I have never encountered these on any guitar, including high end PRS and Tom Anderson, so I don't think it is a solution all manufacturers take advantage of. Have you come across them on a stock guitar?
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My Godin Session has pull push which splits the Bridge Humbucker to single coil, is stock on this model. It's a nice feature..
 

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RVA said:
I did not these even existed and it is a very cool option. I have never encountered these on any guitar, including high end PRS and Tom Anderson, so I don't think it is a solution all manufacturers take advantage of. Have you come across them on a stock guitar?
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No kidding? I thought most stock guitars used this but hell, i might be incredibly wrong lol i saw them on a few Fender Strats and Teles and have seen them in some basses oddly enough. Now whether or not that was stock? Im now debating myself lol but i figured that would have been the norm if a manufacturer was shooting for a great coil split

Here's what they look like
 
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