No Load Blender Pot

It s a useful mod that allows you to get a lot of tone options like telecaster tones out of your strat.

No load blender pot.

This requires no special wiring. It controls the volume of each pickup and can even get all three. This way whatever is connected to the cold lug of the pot is totally out of the circuit with a no load on 10 while it is still part of the circuit through a insert pot value here resistance with a regular pot. The middle pot becomes the master tone for the whole guitar.

Hear the full presence of your pickups unaffected by loss of highs from your tone circuit. Dial this pot up to 10 and it s removed from the circuit completely. Simply wire the pot section like a normal tone pot and the blender pot as needed. While the bridge is selected turning the blender pot will blend in the neck.

Between positions 9 and 10 the blender pot is completely removed from the circuit. This gives you a wide verity of sounds that you can hear in the video. A blender pot is a type of no load pot that will blend between two pickups that it s wired to. The emerson pro high end cts blender pot mixes the neck and bridge pickups without affecting the five way switch.

No load pots look like standard volume or tone controls and they function in similar ways but they are one of the most commonly misunderstood components in the world of guitar electronics. Lindy fralin blender pot demo. The pro blender no load pot has no detent so the feel is click free. Simply swap the.

A great example would be a no load tone pot. I show what sounds you can get if you install the fender guitar pot no load 250k. I also wired it according to the 50s mod. The blender is active only in position 1 and 2 bridge and middle bridge.

For example you can swap out your tone control for a no load pot but it will not work for the volume control. No change in wiring is needed. I rewired my strat with blender no load pot according to the scheme above. I must say i m really impressed with the two extra tones lovely.

Our blender pot element takes the pot completely out of the circuit when it s on 10. The capacitor and the pot are added back in smoothly as you roll off the control. This does imply unless you have a no load a blender mod with a regular pot will alway blend a bit.