Treble Bleed Volume Pot

If we weigh the negligible cost and effort of installing a treble bleed against the potentially prodigious payoff a volume pot capacitor looks to be a very smart investment indeed particularly for tube amp aficionados.

Treble bleed volume pot.

The hard part is that there are three values to consider. By adding the resistor in parallel a small amount of all frequencies are allowed to bypass the volume pot along with the high frequencies that bled through the capacitor. Wire this simple mod between the input and output lugs of your guitar volume control pot to smooth out treble bleed. Hand soldered here in our shop.

This is done to prevent the tone from becoming too thin in reduced volume settings and augment the tape of the pot. The volume pot the capacitor and the resistor. The one downside to the treble bleed circuit is that it will affect the way your guitar cleans up when you turn down the volume. It s a common modification people have been doing for a while said jonathan parrish a fender engineer who designed the treble bleed circuits in the american professional series guitars.

Typical capacitor values are between 001mfd and 003mfd. Again this little mod works best with single coil pickups. Here s how easily this is. A treble bleed high pass circuit allows the highs to bleed or pass through the volume pot even as it is turned down.

Each one of the values affects the other and the result is entirely dependent on your personal tastes.