Originally Posted by: PonyOne... my Baretta uses a 500k push/pull tone that was put in in the factory. it doesn't work for my tone zone ...[/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Hmm... YMMV, as they say.[/font]

[QUOTE=PonyOne]... I put a 1 meg in the volume position in the Kramer and :eek: I love the Tone Zone for its unique voicing and dynamics... the new pot really just accentuates these qualities: i put the Tone Zone in and had to clean up my act, because it has no room for error. it's very unforgiving in this sense. if you hit the string wrong you and everyone listening will know it...

[font=trebuchet ms]That sounds (pun intended) pretty much like my experience with it. I'm puzzled by the difference in pot values, though. I'm using 500k Volume pots, and 500k Tone pots with 0.22 uF caps. The tone pots disconntect from the circuit when they're fully clockwise, but those component values seem to be good, because there's no sudden drop in treble when I roll either of the Tone knobs down a bit.

I'll have to see if I can find a 1 Meg wafer for my Volume pots. See, I loathe push/pull pots! The first time I tried to make a quick change, I flicked the knob across the room! To retain the push/push switch function, I had to canabilize some Yamaha tone pots by swapping out the resistive element (the wafer) for one from a volume pot. They are different, you know. A tone pot has a break in the resistive path on the wafer so that when the wiper (the part that moves with the knob) reaches the full clockwise position, it is disconnected from everything except the end terminal. This is shown in the wiring diagrams at DiMarzio.[/font]