.....but what if the much respected pickup designer Jason Lollar said it? Well, he did and it makes zero sense to me and unless i'm missing something how does this affect your respect for him? He said that a treble bleed cap in a guitar affects the tone in a way he feels is negative....but heres the catch....he says even on TEN. Now, i can think of 1 possible reason that he could be right, and that would be if the pot still has some resistance between the wiper and input lug when on 10. But how many pots would have more then a few ohms. In general a treble bleed cap on a properly manufactured pot should be no different than soldering the cap's leads together then soldering that to the pickup lead.
So please, defend J.L. if u can, but that just makes me wonder if he deserves the respect he gets and makes me think maybe he's just a guy who winds pickups and has done it enough to come up with some good sounding models but really knows little about theroy even in it's simplest form. I'm just kinda stumped by this. I'm an idiot as electronics go but even to me this is senseless....unless somehow i am missing something.....maybe all pots have just enough resistance to hear a cap's bleed thru ? I think i checked a few in my time if they seemed bad, but i don't recall any resistance that could account for this. Anyways, that statement really got my curiosity up and just wondered what u all think.
Heres the video. He starts talking about treble bleed caps around 2 minutes and mentions the affect the tone even on 10 around 2:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZWGITsDCvs
So please, defend J.L. if u can, but that just makes me wonder if he deserves the respect he gets and makes me think maybe he's just a guy who winds pickups and has done it enough to come up with some good sounding models but really knows little about theroy even in it's simplest form. I'm just kinda stumped by this. I'm an idiot as electronics go but even to me this is senseless....unless somehow i am missing something.....maybe all pots have just enough resistance to hear a cap's bleed thru ? I think i checked a few in my time if they seemed bad, but i don't recall any resistance that could account for this. Anyways, that statement really got my curiosity up and just wondered what u all think.
Heres the video. He starts talking about treble bleed caps around 2 minutes and mentions the affect the tone even on 10 around 2:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZWGITsDCvs
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