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047 cap between 10 and 5 on the tone knob, and an. As you turn the pot down further, the second, smaller capacitor starts to compete and you wind up draining off a large amount of a narrower range of trebles.
FENDER HIGHWAY ONE STRATOCASTER POTS PDF
pdf parts lists.Įlectrical engineering gurus can help me out here, but I think the idea is that as you start to turn down the tone control from 10, it shunts a little bit of a broad range of trebles through a large capacitor. The greasebucket tone control on my Highway One Strat has (well, okay, had) an extra capacitor that you can readily see bridging between the lugs of the pot, and there's a resistor hidden in some shrinkwrap in series between the main cap and the back of the pot. The tone and QC is hardly noticeable in 60% of most cases.Ībout the only thing most people notice is the neck profile difference and fret board radius changes.Click to expand.Doesn't seem like your buddy's guitar actually has a greasebucket tone control on it. On the guitars I listed there is a price range of $379.00 and $3379.00 and the difference between them is so low most people would never know the difference. The difference between a stock CV60 and a stock MIA standard is shockingly low.Īnd that is not a bias opinion. Now granted if someone had to pay for the fret job they would be into this guitar as much as a good MIM or basic MIA. The guitar is so strait it has a 1.5mm action at the 15th fret with 0 fret buzz and no dead frets. This one has a 2 piece body cut right up the middle and super hard Ebony board. I have a slightly modd'ed CV60 that will put most Fender products to shame. I agree that one of the reasons why Fender does things like asked in the OP is so people can hear a difference in a 300 dollar guitar and one of their 1500+ dollar guitars. Most of that crap is myths that is pushed by guitar companies that try to push 1000-6000 dollar guitars.
FENDER HIGHWAY ONE STRATOCASTER POTS HOW TO
The only thing I have noticed is that the dime size pots wear out faster and are easier to over heat if you don't know how to solder properly.Īs far as what the cap is made out of affecting tones, I have never heard a difference in that either. I have never heard a tone difference in a dime size pot and a jumbo size pot.
There is a difference in tone in 500 and 250k pots for sure.
FENDER HIGHWAY ONE STRATOCASTER POTS UPGRADE
fretwork and other fit and finish critical things are also going to be better on the more expensive instruments.Īnyway, if Fender made the low end Squiers too good, who would ever pay more for anything else? Making people work to upgrade puts at least some barrier to entry which helps support the higher model sales. Now there are still going to be some playability issues.
FENDER HIGHWAY ONE STRATOCASTER POTS FULL SIZE
Complete the upgrades by putting in a full size brass or steel trem block and steel saddles and even more of the difference disappears. drop in a decent set of Alnico pickups and a lot of the advantage tone wise even an MIA has goes away. Suddenly they are much closer to a stock MIM Standard. It is a pretty noticeable improvement in tone when you put some nice full size 250k pots and a 0.047uf cap in a cheaper model Squier even with the crappy stock ceramic single coils. It is because they are cheap, especially the dime sized ones they usually use, and I think also it is partially a way to keep the cheaper model Squiers from competing too much with the CVs and MIM Fenders.
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