Treble Bleed circuits?!! Please help
I am new to this forum and am thrilled to have found it. I hope you can help. My question: I would like to add a treble bleed circuit to my 6120-60 re-issue. This guitar uses Tv jones Classics front and back. I use a modded bassman cranked up. I love the brilliance and sustain it has w/the volume wide open. Also this is how I get my distortion tone, i.e. no pedals. However, as soon as I turn the volume knob down, even slightly, the tone of the guitar gets waaaay muddy. I crank up the amp to get killer all tube distortion tone for leads, then turn down the guitar volume to clean it up for rhythm/twangier leads, etc, but the tone gets too muddy with my gretsch for this to work well. I have tried a treble bleed circuit cap stolen from my old tele, this presented two problems. #1: turning the volume down bleeds off too much low end resulting in a tone reminiscent of mashed kittens, and; two: the taper of the pot changed, i.e., with the volume pot at 3 or 4 (1/8-1/4 turn) the introduction of the cap causes the guitar volume to spike up. In other words instead of a gradual change in volume from "off" to "wide open" the volume spikes suddenly in the first 1/8 turn or so then changes very little the remainder of rotation. Which totally throws off my mojo. Mr. Tv, I have never touched a better playing Guitar than my 6120, it's playability made me hate my everything else in my collection. let me enjoy it fully!!! Help Me!!!
I am new to this forum and am thrilled to have found it. I hope you can help. My question: I would like to add a treble bleed circuit to my 6120-60 re-issue. This guitar uses Tv jones Classics front and back. I use a modded bassman cranked up. I love the brilliance and sustain it has w/the volume wide open. Also this is how I get my distortion tone, i.e. no pedals. However, as soon as I turn the volume knob down, even slightly, the tone of the guitar gets waaaay muddy. I crank up the amp to get killer all tube distortion tone for leads, then turn down the guitar volume to clean it up for rhythm/twangier leads, etc, but the tone gets too muddy with my gretsch for this to work well. I have tried a treble bleed circuit cap stolen from my old tele, this presented two problems. #1: turning the volume down bleeds off too much low end resulting in a tone reminiscent of mashed kittens, and; two: the taper of the pot changed, i.e., with the volume pot at 3 or 4 (1/8-1/4 turn) the introduction of the cap causes the guitar volume to spike up. In other words instead of a gradual change in volume from "off" to "wide open" the volume spikes suddenly in the first 1/8 turn or so then changes very little the remainder of rotation. Which totally throws off my mojo. Mr. Tv, I have never touched a better playing Guitar than my 6120, it's playability made me hate my everything else in my collection. let me enjoy it fully!!! Help Me!!!