🕐 TIMELINE 🕘 [0:00] INTRO & INFO [0:46] DEMO 1 with effects [5:06] DEMO 2 without effects Upgrading the pots in your electric guitar can be a great way to add some extra tone to your axe, The value of the pot play's a large role in the brightness of your tone and how the pot will interact with your pickups. Usually for single coils we use 250K for humbuckers 500K and for some other guitars like Telecaster or Jazzmaster 1Meg, In this demo i use mini alpha pots on a Squier Mustang HH guitar just to hear the difference between them and get an idea, if you want to upgrade your guitar pots i reccoment to get good quality CTS potentiometers. 👉 Guitar Pots Amazon: amzn.to/3y9eUsd eBay: ebay.us/gw6hZV ▶️ Tutorials/Demos/Other Stuffs: goo.gl/fy4m9H 🔧Equipments: goo.gl/SjER7V 🎧 Listen my Music: smarturl.it/StabosMusic ★★★ Thanks for Watching! ★★★

i changed all my pots to 1 meg and I am satisfied with the output

How all comparison videos should be made.

Thanks! Great video. I like the simple, side by side comparison without comment. It really makes it easy to judge what you are hearing, uncontaminated by prejudgments owing to commentary like "notice how much brighter the highs are". Listening cold like this I can simply say "that's too brassy and metallic" or "I like the clear, ringing highs!"

1 meg sounds very open without restraint. I kinda like the 1 meg with proper tone adjustment to get different flavors of tone.

Warm 250, brite 500, and more brite 1 meg

Switched my pots on my Squier Bullet Mustang to 500k, watching this now I think I definitely made the right choice.

Not only humbucker guitar comparation but also you should make a single coil guitar comparation too.

Excellent video. I particularly liked the signal without effects, as it is the most revealing. The differences were smaller than I thought they'd be. Thanks

500K is the perfect allrounder IMO

Don't forget that thw cable itself and the amplifier input impedance may reduce the high frequencies in the signal much more significantly then the potentiometers, though especially for single coils the higher pot values may over-exaggerate these frequencies and make the signal sound harsh.

Thanks for this. More subtle than I expected.

With humbuckers the 250 seemed to choke the tone/ volume where the 500s sounded perfect and the one Meg sounded thin and brittle in the high end.... too much fizz.....

Great video! the way you show the sound with and without effects is something that doesnt get shown too much on videos but I found yours very very useful.

Yeah baby gimme dat 1 meg ice pick. Love it. But seriously the lows and mids sound great with the 1 meg and you can soften the treble with with EQ.

Thanks for the demonstration! The tonal difference is noticeable especially because you played it clean mostly. Great, so I need more pots 😅🤘

Sweet vid dude, I’m trying to pick a push pull and based on ur demos I’m going to go with a 500k😎🔥

Very good review. Good Job.

Best video for who wanna searching new mods

Great video, I only really noticed a difference a couple times, the third demo riff was the first real noticeable difference it really wasn’t what I was expecting… *500k* seemed a lot ‘brighter’ _(for lack of a better word)_ & *1-Meg* _(or 1000K)_ was even brighter _(so-to-speak)_

With 2 knobs 500k pots is 250k resistance between hot and ground. It's parallel resistors circuit

I couldn't notice one little difference. I'll stick with my 250k. Glad I found your video. Plus playing through my Deville and pedal board I'm sure nobody will.😊

interesting the 250k and 1meg sound the best, the 250k to me sounds a bit cleaner... from all i've read the 500k should be better for the humbuckers and now i'm not sure which cts pot to order. 🤷‍♂️ ok, the clean sound definitely shows the 500k and 1meg are best, but distortion sounded like the 1meg was cleaner and just as beefy sounding between the two.

I was surprised to see I liked the 500 more than the 1 meg. I could hear every string. Would have loved to see 750's compared.

interesting video , im not used to listening to DI guitars but it gives you an idea

I cannot hear any change between the 3 pots in the video

So for metal playing I probably wanna stick to 500k pots. Right now I feel like most of what I have stock is 250k. Very muddy or dull.

????? they sound the same to me ?????

1meg is like putting your guitar in 4k. 250k is lo-fi. Thats why I always install 250k pots in my guitars 😁

with headphones i hear a difference when changing from the bridge to the neck pickup

What would have made this video better would have been had he rolle off on each one so we could hear the way the sound cahnged with the control of the knob.

Your b-string is quite out of tune, but I found it interesting that it sounded way out of tune with 250k but less so than with 500k and 1M. That makes the video quite worthwhile.

How about p90 is it good with 250k?

Didn't hear much difference between the 500s and 1000s, so if you have 500s and like it bright, leave them in. If you wanna make it warmer, jump straight to 250s whether you have 500s or 1000s. Or just roll your tone down, lol. But nah, the real question I have is if a treble bleed will make a 250 sound like a 1M or not. I have this idea about having push-pull pots that swap between 1M and 250k, but if my treble bleed is gonna defeat the purpose of the 250k mode, then I might as well not bother with that function and just go all 1M.

Can you explain to me how you manage to change all the electronics so quickly without stopping to play? Really impressive... 😳

excellent video ! 1meg sound so much fuller and brighter. do they lose low end bass frequencies though ?

250 k is very clear

Great comparison, thanks for making this video. But I'll go on record and say the differences between the values demonstrated here is so subtle that most guitarists shouldn't even worry about changing pots. Once you throw all your pedals, amps, and pickups at your guitar, are you really still going to be able to tell what kind of pots it has? Or, couldn't you achieve the same by just turning a knob or two on your amp? Not to mention how it'll come across in a full band mix.

1M all day. The tone coomes alive. Try 2M with a really hot humbucker and its instant metal/punk tonse.

for pickup single coil which is more suitable

Honestly 500k is enough for a les paul 50s vintage wiring while I feel 1meg would be too bright

to me 500k sounded the best 250 sounded like an option for those that want a darker sound 1mega sounds too bright for me great video!!!

Higher resistance add high frequencies?

G string is waaay sharp! And you can hear pot values?

I'd like to hear the difference between a 1 meg vs 50 - 1000 meg to see how more volume or brightness can be achieved.

If I wantes to read, I'd get a book. 😢

Changed only the volume pot? Or tone as well?

Now I know that I need a 1MEG in my Strats

Hey guys... i need some help. Im modding my jackson dinky. It has one general tone and one general volume knob. Im gonna put a SD sentient/nazgul pickup kit on there and id like to be able to coil split the nazgul.. i dont really need a tone for the sentient. So it would just be the coil split(tone) for the nazgul and a general volume knob Is this possible and if yes... what do i need for this?? (Im new to modding so im kind of confused)

Thanks for a really good video! The CTS pot i bought doesn't fit in the hole in the metal. What brand should I by if I want good pots that will fit into a Squier Bullet Mustang?

Thanks for the vídeo friend. In the test do you changed only volume pots? 4:17 - 4:26 5:19 - 5:29

Bro what type of capacitor value you use in this demo? Can you do some videos that potentiometer and capacitor mixing?

i changed my volume pots on my guitar but the result wasnt good coz its already full high treble sound what would be a good volume pots

Can I ask for help, what value of capacitor and resistor should I use in 1 MEG POTS?

Hi, did you swap both tone and volume? Helpful video by the way :)

Can one somehow have a guitar wired to switch between from one rated capacitor to another? So I could vary my sound At will? So for example two capacitors for volume and switch between the two? Also, are pots made in other metals ? Brass etc? if using brass pots rated at the same as an aluminum for example, how does the brass effect tone compared to aluminum? More mellow? Brighter?

sounds good, but might want to re-intonate your G and B strings, getting a lot of contrast there

I wanna clean a crunchy amp with the volume knob in my Les Paul that have a Seymour Duncan 59 in the bridge (7,4k). In this case, which pot is better? 250k or 500k?

more is more

Are copper shaft pots, better than brass and aluminum?

Hi, my guitar already has a 500k volume pot and a tone pot on humbucker pickup... now I want to change one of the 1 pots to 1 meg... which one is recommended, the volume pot or the tone pot... I am a lead guitar player in rock songs

is it okay if i use 1Meg only to my volume pot then the tone pots are in 250k?

Which one would you suggest me for my lp i usually play heavy clean

What cap to use with 500k pot for tone?

500👍

the tests are not showing enough difference to make any difference evident...

Can you remember what gauge strings you had on this guitar? I’m trying to narrow down everything that will thicken tone, lol Thank you!

I feel like if I had 1meg pots I’d actually use my tone knobs.

Next fix a connector bock so yo can hot swap the capacitor in different values.

Ya know I REALLY thought it'd make a BIG difference... But at first listen, there just ain't much difference...

1 meg .... never 250 for this guitar

Man your Focusrite's clipping

WARNING: If you're using active pickups, read their description first - don't just add "the beefiest" potis. I'm speaking of experience

for humbucker 500k or up is better

You show me nothing doing this test with effects, the only true test is clean from the guitar to the clean quality, with no effects amp!

Now do all those into a good tube amp. Completely different sound.

If ain't broken...

so boring you can't get much out of it...