CreepyCarol
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Hi, excuse me for the obligatory 50s wiring post, but I've been having trouble collecting information on exactly what this wiring does after many google searches. It prevents too much treble roll-off from turning down the volume, I know that, but after wiring 50s wiring in my Les Paul myself, I've noticed something that I've never heard anyone mention about 50s wiring, and that is that both volume and tone pots somewhat act as a master tone and volume, in the middle position turning down one pot shuts off both pickups. I've owned a 4 knob two humbucker guitar with independent volume and tone pots for each pickup in the middle position, but I've never played another Les Paul, vintage or modern, with the one I've recently purchased and currently working on with this wiring being a body with no hardware or electronics, so I'm unsure whether having conjoined volume pots with one affecting both pots are usual or if I've just made a mistake with my wiring. Also, my bridge tone pot seems to be reversed? When the pot is all the way down at 0, it sounds as if it's on 10, and when it's on 10, it sounds like the tone has been rolled off, and this is only for my bridge pot, not neck, and it persists in both positions too, middle and bridge. Everything else works well, volume pots work fine with each pickup, and neck tone works fine, it's just those two things I've mentioned that I have trouble wrapping my head around. The joint volume and tone pots I can understand being usual and me just not knowing that, but a reversed bridge tone pot? Surely that has to be a wiring mistake on my end or a bad pot, but I'm curious whether anyone here might understand what's going on to cause that, as I don't have much expertise on guitar wiring, and with this being my first wiring job, I'm lucky to get any sound at all on the first try. I apologize for such a long post and complicated questions, but I'll be thrilled to get a helpful response from anyone here, I really do appreciate it.