Simple Guitar Wiring for Volume Pedal Users

This time, I will show you some simple guitar wiring. It doesn't have any volume and tone control. It will be great, if you prefer to use only pedals for this things. The only control in this guitar circuit is a load pot. It can be used for adding a little bit of warmth/smoothness to the guitar tone, or as a stand-by switch.

Diagram:

Adjustable Treble Bleed Mod

Today's post is about how to make an easily adjustable guitar treble bleed mod. It's based on some kind of a small extension of the well known wiring trick. It can give you good control over the guitar volume and treble relation.

Diagram:

Impedance Tuner - Guitar Mod

Impedance tuner? It is a guitar mod, which can help you tune the treble bleed of a guitar wiring, by adjusting the impedance of the circuit. Its a quite simple thing, based on a 1M potentiometer.

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Volume Drop Switch - Guitar Mod

The volume drop switch is a guitar wiring mod , which can help you to reduce the output power of your axe, without significant treble loses. You can use it to make your tone cleaner, with less crunch from a tube amp, or just to decrease the volume, without treble bleed effect.

Diagram:

American Standard vs. Deluxe Stratocaster (pre-2004)

American Standard and Deluxe Stratocaster guitars are looking similar as wood constructions, but their wirings are the two different stories. Let's look closer at them.

American Standard Stratocaster:

Treble Bleed Switch (Volume Pot Mod)

In this post, I will show you how to make a switchable guitar treble bleed prevention circuit. It's based on a push-pull volume potentiometer, a capacitor and a resistor.

Diagram:

Treble Bleed Mod

In this post, I would like to present my way to make a good guitar treble bleed mod (treble bleed prevention). If you were searching on-line about this circuit, you probably know what it is, and that it can be made in many different ways.

If you don't know what it is...

The treble bleed mod is a circuit which can help you keep the treble in the guitar signal, when you're turning down the volume potentiometer.

Probably you know, that when the volume pot knob is turned a little bit down, the guitar signal is quieter and also darker or smoother – it's loosing some high frequencies. Treble bleed mod will help in preventing treble frequencies from bleeding to the ground.

It's made from capacitor, or capacitor and resistor in series or parallel. It should be connected to the input and the output lug (firs and middle) of the volume potentiometer .

There is no perfect treble bleed prevention for a passive circuit. For example:

Single Potentiometer Wiring With an Useful Tone Control and a Treble Bleed Capacitor

Probably you have been seen guitars with only one potentiometer - volume. The reason of using this kind of wiring is need for minimal impact on tone from potentiometers, when a tone control is not really necessary. But what we can do, if we want some tone control and we want also a natural guitar tone (no big impact from pots)?

We can make this kind of compromise: