Who makes the best push pull pots?

6 Best Guitar Pots 2021 & Where To Buy Them

• Highly Rated. Seymour Duncan YJM-500 Hi-Speed Volume Electric Guitar Pot 500k.
• Full Kit. 920D Custom S5W-KIT 5-Way Wiring Kit for S-Style Guitars.
• Great Value. CTS 250K Short SOLID Shaft Audio Potentiometer/Pot – 450G Series – PAIR (2X)

Are 500K pots good?

A 500K pot provides the most resistance, so high frequencies from your signal are not bled to ground as easily as a 250K pot. Similarly, the 250K pot contributes less resistance and thus bleeds more high frequencies to ground. But wait: variable resistance is a good thing!

Are 250K pots vs 500K pots?

What is the difference between 250K & 500K pots? Either 250K or 500K pots can be used with any passive pickups however the pot values will affect tone slightly. The rule is: Using higher value pots (500K) will give the guitar a brighter sound and lower value pots (250K) will give the guitar a slightly warmer sound.

Which pots for Stratocaster?

Single Coil pickups and brighter-sounding pickups (think Strat, Tele) use 250K Pots. Darker-sounding pickups (P-92, 43-Gauge Big Single, P-90’s, and Hum-Cancelling P-90’s) use 500K Pots.

Why are 500K pots brighter?

Pots with higher resistance — like 500K compared to 250K — prevent higher frequencies from bleeding through to ground more than lower ohm pots. This means a 500K pot provides a brighter overall tone than a 250K pot.

How do pots affect tone?

Why Do Guitar Pots Alter Guitar Tone? In essence, a guitar pot works like a resistor. A resistor allows you to control the way electricity flows through the instrument. The higher the resistance in a pot, the more high-frequencies it will let pass, making them brighter-toned.

Are CTS pots better than Alpha?

I’ve used Alpha pots and they didn’t suck the tone out of my pickups. CTS may last longer or be more sturdy, but as far as I can tell they don’t sound any better than Alphas.

Can you mix 250K and 500K pots?

Mixing Potentiometers Circuit load is a complex subject, but the important thing for us to remember when mixing 500k and 250k ohm potentiometers is that you don’t end up with a 500k and 250k values. You end up with a single value closer to 375k. You will achieve a tone brighter than a 250k pot but darker than a 500k.

What can I do with push pull pots?

Add custom features to your guitar or bass like coil tap, reverse phase, series/parallel and more with high quality push/pull pots from CTS, Bourns and Alpha. Or save space by stacking two pots in a single hole with concentric stacked pots from Alps and CTS.

How big is a push pull guitar pot?

Short body height and side mounted contacts require less space than standard push/pull pots (1”… Alps dual 500K audio taper stacked concentric pot. Stack two 500K pots in one hole. Compact size is ideal for use in small control cavities and other locations where space is limited.

Which is the best 500k pot to buy?

PRS and Hamer used to have the best 500K pots for me. Taper was nice and rotation was easy. I don’t know what they’re like now. PRS sold them for $25 a pop tho’. ouch. I’m happy with CTS.

Can you use two tone caps on a push pull pot?

This mod is pretty cool! With this mod, you can use two different tone caps with one push-pull pot. When pushed down, you can have to say, a .02mfd Cap, and when pulled up, you can have a Fralin Magic Cap, or vice-versa! The Signal enters the Pot at Lug 2. The Sweeper, Lug 2, is connected to one side of the switch, at point E.