Treble Bleed Volume Pot

Again this little mod works best with single coil pickups.

Treble bleed volume pot.

Here s how easily this is. So heads up strat and tele slingers. Get more uniform tone from 1 to 10 and a more rounded sound at low volume. Hand soldered here in our shop.

A treble bleed high pass circuit allows the highs to bleed or pass through the volume pot even as it is turned down. A 150k ohm 1 4 watt resistor 1 tolerance in parallel with a 001uf capacitor. Each one of the values affects the other and the result is entirely dependent on your personal tastes. 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.

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. This is done to prevent the tone from becoming too thin in reduced volume settings and augment the tape of the pot. The hard part is that there are three values to consider. 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.