Originally Posted by: PonyOne... i figured that the not-shutting-off thing was a mistake; the resistors in the guitar are the ones that were in from the factory for the 250k pots, could that be part of the issue?[/QUOTE][font=trebuchet ms]Resistors? If there's a resistor between the CCW terminal of the pot and ground, the pickup sees a 'pot' with a resistance of the actual pot plus the resistor, that will only turn down to the juction of the pot and the resistor. I don't need to turn my volumes all the way off, so I use this technique with my 500 k pots to simulate having a 1 meg pot that will only turn down to half volume.[/font]

[QUOTE=PonyOne]... once i start working again and have expendable cash ....

[font=trebuchet ms]I don't like the sound of that. Are you no longer LA's foremost purveyor of fine German automobiles?[/font]