Zhhnnng my guitar

[lppier]

Where to get 300ohm pots ah?
My volume pot was previously 250ohm and my godin sounded warm but not aggresive enough. I changed it to 500ohm about 1 year ago and now it's aggresive but lost a bit of the warm sound.
Recently I changed my tone control capacitor to 0.47microfarad, a bit bright now wan to get back some of the warm sound.. hehe.
Any difference between the pots sold by G77 and Davis?

 

[uzzo88]

i doubt u can get 300 ohms.. and i also doubt that you guiitar had 500ohms..most likely 500k pots..so if you're looking for 300k, get a 500k and tweak with resistors..

 

[lppier]

ya sorry I left out the k haha... how to tweak with resistors huh? Teach me can? Lost all my jc physics theory...

 

[ShredCow]

Recently I changed my tone control capacitor to 0.47microfarad, a bit bright now wan to get back some of the warm sound.. hehe.

How does the tone capacitor affect the loading of a pot?

Does it come into play when you use the tone pot?

It affects the treble bleed more than the load of a pot.



How many controls do you have?

 

[redjackal]

sorry to invade.
but can anyone post their ZHENNGED guitar?
(since the topic name says it all)

like pickups, graphics etc like those ZHENNGED car. lol

am expecting those doesnt-look-typical-guitar

 

[ShredCow]

There was a thread, before & after... some people posted their Zhnged guitars... search for it? :wink:

 

[Indigo_blues]

shredcow's guitar is uber zhnged man.. go find the pic.

 

[GC]

Where to get 300ohm pots ah?
My volume pot was previously 250ohm and my godin sounded warm but not aggresive enough. I changed it to 500ohm about 1 year ago and now it's aggresive but lost a bit of the warm sound.
Recently I changed my tone control capacitor to 0.47microfarad, a bit bright now wan to get back some of the warm sound.. hehe.

Only Gibson pots are 300k ohm. If you have changed you tone capacitor to 0.047 micofarad, it should be a larger value than the stock Godin one, which means it will now be less 'bright'. How sure are you the pots are of the mentioned values? Measure them with a multimeter as most pots have a tolerance rating of +/- 20%, i.e a 500 k pot can measure between 400-600k ohm.

Check you amp settings, the treble control is just an arms length away. If it's a bright/harsh sounding guitar, sometimes no amount of tweaking will help. It could be the inherent nature of the wood.

 

[jeremyrozario]

more details please, type of pickups, eg hum/sing/double hum/p90, body type

 

[thor666]

Wire a 750k resistor across a 500k pot and you get 300k. Slightly different when using, but effectively the same. Measure with a multimeter to verify.

http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/potm.htm

Anyway, do get a multimeter. Very useful.

 

[lppier]

Wire a 750k resistor across a 500k pot and you get 300k.

Wah so easy ah hehe... okay I'll try it out. But what do you mean by slightly different when using?
Anyway the onboard pickups are 2 Seymour Duncan P90 Customs, and the guitar is warm when using 250k, bright and aggresive when using 500k, so looking for some middle ground here.

Tone capacitor, I believe the smaller, less charge is stored in the capacitor, so more current goes through so more treble (correct me if I'm wrong). I only have 1 tone control.

Anyway, it's fun and cheap so I like to... zhhhhnnng my guitar. Internally la, externally I like it as it is

 

[ShredCow]

Thre's more... try a Varitone in place of the tone pot. Personally, I find Varitones so much more useful, though live-wise, maybe a bit of a hassle. I would put one in my Saber biut I don't have the space.

There's the bill lawrence q filter.

There's different types of capacitors... I use mallory.

 

[thor666]

Wah so easy ah hehe... okay I'll try it out. But what do you mean by slightly different when using?

*Edited. The link given explains better than me:

"Putting a resistor across the pot and lowering the values does change the taper a bit. The taper is close but the resistor seems to slow the taper or make the taper more gradual than without the resistor. I don't find this as too much of a problem and if it drives me nuts, I'll get the actual value needed."

 

[lppier]

I do think that when I put 500kohm in place of my 250kohm pot the taper became less gradual though. So I don't know whether the effect is caused by different overall resistor values.
I think I'll not go for the varitone as of know... need to drill hole. :lol:
i'm zhnning coz I got that sound in my head, and I know it's somewhere there in between the 2 resistor values.

 

[lppier]

A small update.. went down to sim lim tower and got several resistors, tested and ended up choosing a 1.2kohm resistor so now the total resistance across the volume pot is around 353kohms. I am very happy with the result , got back the warmth I was talking about and a lot more tones. The longer taper works fine for me as it was already around like that when I first got the guitar.
Many thanks to thor666 for teaching me how to do it!

Anyway here's a pic of my beloved axe

 

[theblueark]

Oh man I love that line of godins.

 

[thor666]

Hey, no probs man, thank projectguitar. I learnt it there the first time round too.

The Godins with P90s right? Interesting... not many Godin owners in Singapore.

 

[Everdying]

i bought a cheap godin radiator used the other day.
$260 w/ hardcase

 

[edder]

i bought a cheap godin radiator used the other day.
$260 w/ hardcase

sell it to me when you don't need it. hur hur hur~

 

[lppier]

The Godins with P90s right? Interesting... not many Godin owners in Singapore.

Yeah it's P90s, I like it a lot.. but my fren seems to find it too mellow hehe