Help match pots to pups

[J Sudjian]

Hey guys I got a Squire VM Jazz years back, I put DP123 pups in it and they sounded great........as far as pots and such I just did what a dude a GC believed would be good.

Now I cant remember if the pots are 250 or 500.....

the volume pot is a Gibson pot cant remember how I ended up with that lol.

So i put a capacitor on the middle pot, its orange, not sure the specs on that either.

Heres my deal, I wanna start playing this one again,.....

i dont like how the tone pots abruptly change tone vs gradually.

and my rookie solder job is a barf fest.


So.....knowing that this has the DP123 pups in it.....

1. what tone pots do I buy for graduall tone change and 250 or 500?

2. what capacitor size do I want?

3. what volume pot do I buy, specs, i just dont wsnt the gibson one in it lol.

thanks guys.

any questions feel free to ask me.

i soldered components onto circuit boards all the time growing up but when it came to soldering onto the flat surface of the pots i just died lmao

pry had lots of scotch too though

 

[J Sudjian]

Shoot when i say tone pots i mean the volume for each individual pup.

the main tone knob at the bottom is gradual, the pup knobs are not.

I want them all gradual.

 

[ctmullins]

DiMarzio themselves recommend 500kOhm for the volume pot and 250kOhm for the tone pot, with a 0.033uF capacitor. DiMarzio Model J™ | DiMarzio

Abruptness of the sweep has to do with the taper of the pot - audio/logarithmic versus linear. There is lots of discussion about this elsewhere on TalkBass; I can never remember the essence. I have experimented with both, and sometimes one works and sometimes the other works.