Treble Bleed Volume Pot

Wire this simple mod between the input and output lugs of your guitar volume control pot to smooth out treble bleed.

Treble bleed volume pot.

Hand soldered here in our shop. The hard part is that there are three values to consider. Here s how easily this is. So heads up strat and tele slingers.

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 volume pot the capacitor and the resistor. 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. A 150k ohm 1 4 watt resistor 1 tolerance in parallel with a 001uf capacitor.

This is done to prevent the tone from becoming too thin in reduced volume settings and augment the tape of the pot. Again this little mod works best with single coil pickups. A treble bleed high pass circuit allows the highs to bleed or pass through the volume pot even as it is turned down. By adding the resistor in parallel a small amount of all frequencies are allowed to bypass the volume pot along with the high frequencies that bled through the capacitor.

Get more uniform tone from 1 to 10 and a more rounded sound at low volume.