help with pots (guitar)

[Fuentealba]

I bought 2 pickups, Invader and Dimarzio X2N for my 7 strings guitar..

I was thinking about changing the pots, I have a spare one that EMG's pickups brings with it, will it work fine? should I buy another ones?

I know that EMG's pots are 25k, so my thought is that is too little for passive pickups and the sound would be TOO warm or kinda muddy.


I need some advice please



thanks in advance

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

25k doesn't sound right for a humbucker I am thinking that value should be more like 500k audio or linear taper.

We are talking about these correct?:

I guess replacing them is worth they are cheap but I wouldn't bother unless when your turning them they are making that shitty crackling noise.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I know that EMG's pots are 25k

Really? I am not gonna doubt you but are you sure that value isn't 250k?

 

[Fuentealba]

yeah, they are 25k, I read that on the internet

 

[Wadi]

25K pots are for actives and 250k-500K pots are for passives.

 

[JBroll]

EMG pots are 25k. Normal passive single coils use 250k. Normal passive humbuckers use 500k. With that thing, you could go anywhere between 500k and 10M without a problem - higher numbers (10M means ten million ohms, as opposed to five hundred thousand on the 500k) mean higher resistance between signal and ground, and thus less 'bleed' from your tone. Hell, you could no-load the pot and not have it doing anything at the full-on position, you could leave it out entirely... I wouldn't recommend using the 25k because you'll likely perceive it as being like a 'normal' volume pot rolled down a bit. Pots are cheap, just get a 2M audio taper pot and let that be the end of that.

This has been posted a good number of times before, so the search function could probably have helped, and if you need electronics bullshit feel free to PM me.

Jeff

 

[Fuentealba]

I've used the search engine, but the answers didn't help me

thanks!