Treble Bleed Volume Pot

A treble bleed high pass circuit allows the highs to bleed or pass through the volume pot even as it is turned down.

Treble bleed volume pot.

So heads up strat and tele slingers. Hand soldered here in our shop. 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. Wire this simple mod between the input and output lugs of your guitar volume control pot to smooth out treble bleed.

Again this little mod works best with single coil pickups. Get more uniform tone from 1 to 10 and a more rounded sound at low volume. The volume pot the capacitor and the resistor. 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.

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. Typical capacitor values are between 001mfd and 003mfd. Here s how easily this is. 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.