volume and tone pots

[alf cockle]

I saw an axis ss on the bay yesterday,and the seller had modified the volume and tone pots,claiming a vast improvement in those controls.The tone pot was a Fender TBX...Has anybody ventured to mess with the stock EB volume and tone controls.I do find rolling off the volume on my HBHB axis sport muddies the sound a fair bit.

 

[beej]

I haven't used one, but the TBXs allow you to cut the treble or bass, vs the normal treble cut you get with a standard tone circuit.

Re the treble drop- this is normal on most guitars when you roll off the volume. Depends on your guitar and rig, but it's normal to get a bit of treble loss. The fix is soldering in a resistor & capacitor across two lugs of your volume pot. It's called a "treble bleed" and there are various values you can use (do a Google search).

In any case ... swapping in the original pots and/or the treble bleed mod are both pretty straight-forward.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I had treble bleed caps on a guitar once, all it seemed to do was to make the guitar sound really thin when you rolled the volume down.