Scotter
Junior Member
I've been pm-ing jp on his Starfire re-wiring job, and FWIW, I have a pic of a new wired pot before it was installed into my CE.
If you've been following the thread, this is a 500K pot (485K measured) with a 1Meg across it, bringing it to about 325K. This allows slightly more twang than usual, which is good by my ear, and if needed, is easily tamed with the tone control. It is installed on the original harness. It is now installed and sounds good.
jp told me that some have recommended not grounding the case on a DeArmond style pickup, which is what the GFS NYii's are. Letting the case float supposedly gives a better tone.
From a tonality POV, I'm guessing you would loose the effect of any capacitance between the case and coil (less high frequency bleed-off), but from a practicality POV, you'd also loose the case as a shield and probably have more hum problems. An engineer's guess on my part. Has anyone experimented with this, tone-wise?
Scottie
If you've been following the thread, this is a 500K pot (485K measured) with a 1Meg across it, bringing it to about 325K. This allows slightly more twang than usual, which is good by my ear, and if needed, is easily tamed with the tone control. It is installed on the original harness. It is now installed and sounds good.
jp told me that some have recommended not grounding the case on a DeArmond style pickup, which is what the GFS NYii's are. Letting the case float supposedly gives a better tone.
From a tonality POV, I'm guessing you would loose the effect of any capacitance between the case and coil (less high frequency bleed-off), but from a practicality POV, you'd also loose the case as a shield and probably have more hum problems. An engineer's guess on my part. Has anyone experimented with this, tone-wise?
Scottie