Do the Washburn Nuno N4 have some type of treble bleed installed in them?

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harddriver

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Since these guitars have a single 500K volume pot do they have a treble bleed to take some of the icepick high out of the L500XL?
 
A treble bleed would do the opposite. Most of the time, turning down the volume pot on a guitar reduces the highs faster than the lows which can lead to overly dull and muffled signal from the guitar. A treble bleed mod is named that way because it makes treble "bleed through" or bypass the volume pot. In other words, a treble bleed mod keeps the highest frequencies loud so turning the volume pot down doesn't mud up your tone.

If you wanted to darken bright pickups without a tone knob, you'd want to replace a 500k pot with 300k or 250k for even darker tone with the volume pot on 10.

But if you think an L500XL is way too bright, it might not be the right pickup for you in the first place. Either that or you're not using enough gain or dialing your amp dark enough. A bright signal from the guitar is more about increasing clarity and articulation even with a lot of gain, rather than shaping the overall EQ signature of your tone.
 
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TheGreatGreen said:
A treble bleed would do the opposite. Most of the time, turning down the volume pot on a guitar reduces the highs faster than the lows which can lead to overly dull and muffled signal from the guitar. A treble bleed mod is named that way because it makes treble "bleed through" or bypass the volume pot. In other words, a treble bleed mod keeps the highest frequencies loud so turning the volume pot down doesn't mud up your tone.

If you wanted to darken bright pickups without a tone knob, you'd want to replace a 500k pot with 300k or 250k for even darker tone with the volume pot on 10.

But if you think an L500XL is way too bright, it might not be the right pickup for you in the first place. Either that or you're not using enough gain or dialing your amp dark enough. A bright signal from the guitar is more about increasing clarity and articulation even with a lot of gain, rather than shaping the overall EQ signature of your tone.
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So the Washburn N4 L500XL's are wired straight up to the 500K pot then? That was mainly my question, I read somewhere they did have some type of treble bleed in them.
 
harddriver said:
So the Washburn N4 L500XL's are wired straight up to the 500K pot then? That was mainly my question, I read somewhere they did have some type of treble bleed in them.
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I’m not sure how the Nuno N4 guitars are wired specifically.
 
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I assume that’s just a little capacitor wired in with it. I had one in my Kramer 84 but liked it better removed.
 
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