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Have any of you tried a Duncan Distortion with a 500k volume pot and bypassed tone pot? Does it sound any good? Thoughts? Thanks!

Yes, it sounds good. Just a bit brighter.


Originally Posted by lit31686Have any of you tried a Duncan Distortion with a 500k volume pot and bypassed tone pot? Does it sound any good? Thoughts? Thanks!

I just put one on last night and it is incredible
picture the JB on steroids.
Crunchy as all hell and clarity
I tried DD before and i did not diconnect the tone pot and did not care for it then,but a bud of mine has his hooked up without a tone pot and just a 500K volume pot and it kills, so i bought one yesterday and did the same and i love this thing!

It's hard to make the Distortion sound bad. But, I've got Distortions wired with and without tone pots, as well as with an active mid boost. They sound great no matter what. In my opinion, that is.


Originally Posted by TravisIt's hard to make the Distortion sound bad. But, I've got Distortions wired with and without tone pots, as well as with an active mid boost. They sound great no matter what. In my opinion, that is.

travis i found IMHO that the DD sounds best to me with NO tone pot and setting it kind of far away from the strings?
it does have a strong magnet pull so when i backed it down away fro m the strings the clarity and tone really came alive

Let's hear it for someone who didn't set it quot;as close as possiblequot; to the strings! That just sucks tone and sustain right out!!! Super hot pups and amps just don't need to be way up there. I bet most people would find improved tone by backing off a couple 32nds...

Can't say about the pots/tone. I run through a stock Gibson 300k. I like the smoother slightly dropped treble on pups with that tone curve in the bridge.


Originally Posted by TravisIt's hard to make the Distortion sound bad. But, I've got Distortions wired with and without tone pots, as well as with an active mid boost. They sound great no matter what. In my opinion, that is.

Would that mid-boost happen to be an EMG SPC?

No, it's the stock mid-boost circuit in my Charvel 650xl (early 90's Jackson Soloist clone). I believe it's the JE-1200 or something like that.