Why ? Telecaster Bridge, No ohm reading, sound like Buchanan

[Mick Bailey]

Out of interest, I had an old Burns guitar that had a low-value cap in series with one pickup for the 'Wild Dog' sound. I can't recall the exact value, but I thought at the time it was excessively low, so perhaps 1000pf or 1500pf maybe. Whilst it sounded really thin with a clean sound, it made a big difference to the clarity of the guitar when the amp was cranked, or when a distortion pedal was used. It was crisp, percussive and had no mush at all, and the note separation was excellent. The main thing was it eliminated the flabby intermodulation caused by the low notes.

For the OP, I would go with previous recommendation of inserting a small capacitor in the 'hot' pickup lead. Note also that Roy's original guitar had an additional 0.1uf capacitor that was always in series, whichever pickup was selected. The other side of things is you need to play like Roy and use his amp and settings.

[rjb]

Out of interest, I had an old Burns guitar that had a low-value cap in series with one pickup for the 'Wild Dog' sound. I can't recall the exact value, but I thought at the time it was excessively low, so perhaps 1000pf or 1500pf maybe. Whilst it sounded really thin with a clean sound, it made a big difference to the clarity of the guitar when the amp was cranked, or when a distortion pedal was used. It was crisp, percussive and had no mush at all, and the note separation was excellent. The main thing was it eliminated the flabby intermodulation caused by the low notes.

That's a fairly common configuration.
The DeArmond Rhythm Chief (monkey on a stick) "Rhythm Switch" un-shunted a series 1000pf cap between volume & tone controls.
Leo Fender's PTB (Passive Treble/Bass) control for G&L guitars used a series 2200pf cap across a 1Mohm anti-log pot.



-rb

[J M Fahey]

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