I thought my pots were bad, cause the knobs dragged so bad. They were just mashed too close to the body. I pulled em, and the post's turned fine. I just didn't push the knobs back all the way. Radio Shack contact cleaner fixed the sound, completrely:) Get a can of air, to, to blow off the excess.
i just soldered in a brand new cts lefty pot in my strat and its scratching immediately!! how is that possible?? i worked in a clean place, and the pot was packed in vacuum foil is just opened it before screwing it in, how thats possible??? its the second time itst happening what im doing wrong??
David I tried this but unfortunately the earthing wire and one of the small wires from volume potentiometer to tone 1 potentiometer broke :-( Had to get it soldered.
USE LIQUID SPRAY LUBRICANT WD-40 OR SIMILAR PRODUCT $4 AT HOMEDEPOTS AND SPRAY ON THE KNOB'S SHAFT THEN TURNING IT BACK AND FOR, USE VACUMM CLEANER SUCK OUT THE DIRT IF YOU WANT. I JUST FIXED MY SCRATCHY POT KNOB. I USED THE LEFT OVER TO SPRAY ON MY SQUEAKY DOOR HINGES AND BICYCLE CHAIN.
My buddy had me to put new strings on his ORGINAL 59 Les Paul so me being and evil son of a bitch pulled out the router and did him a "FAVOR" hehe I took my Floyd rose template and cut a hole right through the mother F%$#er drilled some holes for the claw and the blade poles slappped my old chrome floyd rose tremolo on it as well as dremmeled down the nut for the locking system then new strings on it and said here ya go now it's a REAL guitar dont think his pops was too happy he bought it! >:)
Yeah Leo Fender sure knew how to design a Guitar with maintainence in mind!!!! What a joke! Wouldn't have to take all that shit apart with a Les Paul! I like Fenders but that design fucking blows with the pickups and switches all on that panel.
That is great stuff. What if you don't get any volume until you reach 3 on the knob and when you reach 10 you don't get any sound at all?? I have a LP trad. and the neck volume pot is on it's way out. I tried to clean it but the problem persists. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Hey dude this is a cool lesson. I thought you might like to check out a new guitar website that really helps beginner guitarists. >> RexPearson. com << Would love for you to give some feedback and maybe even do a guest lesson for it?
are carb and choke cleaner sprays the same thing as contact sprays? i heard its also used to clean electronics. you think its safe to use it on my potentiometers?
omg thats bullshit about everything being bolted to the pickguard, it's way simpler to have it bolted to the body cause then you don't have to remove strings
I was thinking this also. But mine is a vintage LP copy, open from the back, the pots have no holes, and it makes it dificult to do that spraying like he did because the pots are inside this small cavity. Any ideas?
hey david wat about if i'm turning the volume it doesn't stay up it turns of like really badly what has happened do i have to get new pot or can i fix it?
Sorry I forgot an important thing DON'T DRY with HOTt air. you've got compressed air in the market, just be careful with sensible components dont break it. Thankx
MAN you can do it even in a computer power transformer main board etc, any electronic thing. just be CAREFULL to wait 30 minutes and dry and clean every thing before conect. cheers mates
I doubt it, this is for pots, your problem is the current changing from positions, you may want to get a new 5 way switch (20 minuet project if you can solder well)
just map out what wire goes to what position (draw it out and/or take plenty of close up pictures)
im going to get a 72 tele deluxe and people say its best to change the pots to 500 instead of 250 you know where i could find those? ive been looking online forever cant find shit
humbuckers = dark sound. So you use 500k pots to give you brighter sound for humbuckers. Single coil = bright sound. You use 250k for single coil to avoid excessive brightness.
On most Strats yes. However, on some special ones with no pick guard, there is a plate on the back right next to tremelo bridge cover. I have the HSS Strat with no pick guard so it's got nice any easy access to the pots.
Haha, yea. It's hard to picture this as a 21 minute lesson, but you can tell he's talking to not just a specific crowd, but EVERYONE. Which I thought was cool, even though I already knew all this.
Hey since you are on the topic of pots n knobs n such I was wondering if you could help with a dilemma. My tone knob is broken,not the pot, the actual knob. Even when the tones at max the knob keeps moving. The inside of the knob stays still as it should but the outsidethat u touch keeps moving
can you show us how to adust necks on a Fender Strat because mine looks like it needs a phillip's head skrew driver and it looks like I need to take the neck off because it is only adjustable near the neck pickup and it doesn't have a carving in the guitar body like my Kramer Pacer from 1982.
You have to loosen the screws that hold the neck enough to lift it up to fit in a screwdriver. Complete neck removal is not required. Be careful with the truss rod. Adjusting it improperly can permanently damage your neck.
Not to be an ass, but a potentiometer is not a variable resistor, it's a voltage divider. It does not control the current (like a variable resistor), it controls the voltage.
The potentiometer does not work like that. That was the whole point. The potentiometer is not a single resistor. It's a circuit made out of two resistors, one of which (fixed -- the reference resistor) consists of the whole resistive surface and the other one (the variable one) is just the part between the slider and one end of the resistive surface. And what you end up controlling when you turn the knob is the ouput votage, not the amperage (as you would with a single variable resistor).
Also another way to take care of this, if you do not have any of this cleaner then a vacum cleaner works great. Also the Squier standared Strat. with no pcik guard has to be opened in the back smaller plate.
How would you do this on a Les Paul? There's no pickguard like a strat's on it. And also if you have an HSS strat, what would the K value be for that???
250K for single coil tone and 500K for humbucker tone. strats usually have tone for neck and mid pickups though so it will probably be 2 250K pots. but if you want to swap one of the tone pots to the bridge pickup you would need to get a 500K pot.
My tele has super scratchy pots, and sometimes the volume control won't even work (i.e. I hear little/no output to the amp). Is that the same problem, and can I fix it basically the same way you're doing with the strat?
But I thought it was a bad thing to cut all your strings at one time. I herd it could damage the gutair because of the release of the constant presure of the strings???
hmmmmm, my guitar had a pot but it was entirely deaf on the sixth volume setting, what happened to mine? and truthfully I'd rather get it done for with my luck, I'd kill it.
is their any side affects to drop D tuning the big string on the guitar. does it like not bend the neck enough or what. and i tried to change the action on my stratocaster and now it sounds horible should i go to a guitar store and have them re-set it up because it needs new strings to.
i would recomend, changing the string yourself, cause thats not to hard, but i would bring it to a guitar store to see how much it would cost to re-set it, and if its under your budget then get it fixed, but i could also be expensive too.
they are the round cylinder things inside the guitar that are controlled from the outside by the volume and tone dials. im not big on the technical stuff, so consider that an idiot's answer :P
yes u can do it on a les paul. turn it over and on the back there are 3 sections the switch at the top and in the middle the pickups and on the bottom where the knobs are. take the screws out for where the knobs are and take the cover off the knobs are right there but bolted to the body and then you spray the pots and then reasseble the cover onto the body.
It looks like Dave has an good general knowledge because actually you know what you are taking about. You know exactly how a potenciometer works ... and I allow myself to say that because studied this things ;) rock on!
Be carefull loosening the tension on all the strings I did that and the bridge hit the body and put a small ding on one corner where both ends bend down slightly, it it was flat it wouldnt have happened not sure if this bridge is meant to do that on he american standard, put some thick card under the bridge it was nothing to do with dave by the way, i was trying to clean exces polish off from the fender factory gah its 2 days old
hey I have a question, alot of people tell me that if you take all the strings of a guitar that it could be bad for it. they say it needs constant tension. is that true?
it's a good idea to leave the strings under some tension when storing the guitar. but if you just take the strings off for a short while to clean the guitar or something, it shouldn't hurt anything.
Ok I tried to clean my pots like your instruction but they were ruined. I replaced the bridge pickup pot but my soulder gun broke before I got the neck done. What's a good brand/model gun to get?
well only if you have a certain type of bridge.... a lot of other guitars you could take em all off and leave em off but most strats have floating bridges so if you do take off all the strings at once try to only do it for like 20 mins max and then restring and retune immediately (just google for more info on ur bridge type)
man can anybody help me in tuning lesson...i know the standard tuning and all the other drops...but how to tune halfstep and full step???i dont understand can anybody please help me...
okay first have your guitar tune to standard. After on the top two strings B and E strings play E flat which is 4th fret on the B string now with that note being played, tune the E string to that that will make your E string E flat. Once that's done go down each string and tune it as if it was standard but really your tuning to E flat. =)
Hey guys, I've got a quick question, I have a Les Paul style guitar, without a pick guard. and I'm having the same problem with the scratchy tone controls. How would you fix that on a Les Paul style guitar? Also I couldn't find the rest of the lesson on the site. Might I suggest linking your videos from the site into the description of the video on youtube so it's easier to find?
hey mate. can that same spray be used on guitar amp pots? or o they vary for some reason?
kilvo000 1 month ago
I thought my pots were bad, cause the knobs dragged so bad. They were just mashed too close to the body. I pulled em, and the post's turned fine. I just didn't push the knobs back all the way. Radio Shack contact cleaner fixed the sound, completrely:) Get a can of air, to, to blow off the excess.
thechimneywright 1 month ago
Check out the video "Cleaning Your Electronics" - covers cleaning the pots, switch, and jack in half the time as this long-winded exercise.
Alcivarus 1 month ago
@Alcivarus I KNOW! Waddup widdat? If I wanna hear non-stop, mindless droning, I'll start listening to my WIFE, LOL!
imnoracistbut 1 month ago
i just soldered in a brand new cts lefty pot in my strat and its scratching immediately!! how is that possible?? i worked in a clean place, and the pot was packed in vacuum foil is just opened it before screwing it in, how thats possible??? its the second time itst happening what im doing wrong??
kbuss10 1 month ago
GEE ZUZ KEY RISTE!!!!!!!!!!!!! To anybody watching, jump to 7:45...MAN can this guy can ramble:( Spray the pot, turn the knob...fuck sakes:(
thechimneywright 2 months ago 2
@thechimneywright LOL - you are so right!
Alcivarus 1 month ago
David I tried this but unfortunately the earthing wire and one of the small wires from volume potentiometer to tone 1 potentiometer broke :-( Had to get it soldered.
Anyways, you explain well
SanjeevGeorgeV 2 months ago
DO NOT USE WD 40 or ANYTHING ELSE!!
Only use contact cleaner!!!
AstroXtreme 3 months ago
i though you were Dirk Nowitzki.. lol..
bluesteel31 3 months ago
USE LIQUID SPRAY LUBRICANT WD-40 OR SIMILAR PRODUCT $4 AT HOMEDEPOTS AND SPRAY ON THE KNOB'S SHAFT THEN TURNING IT BACK AND FOR, USE VACUMM CLEANER SUCK OUT THE DIRT IF YOU WANT. I JUST FIXED MY SCRATCHY POT KNOB. I USED THE LEFT OVER TO SPRAY ON MY SQUEAKY DOOR HINGES AND BICYCLE CHAIN.
Oceancolour5 5 months ago
My buddy had me to put new strings on his ORGINAL 59 Les Paul so me being and evil son of a bitch pulled out the router and did him a "FAVOR" hehe I took my Floyd rose template and cut a hole right through the mother F%$#er drilled some holes for the claw and the blade poles slappped my old chrome floyd rose tremolo on it as well as dremmeled down the nut for the locking system then new strings on it and said here ya go now it's a REAL guitar dont think his pops was too happy he bought it! >:)
ledamianded 6 months ago
Always, ALWAYS, work the knob boys and girls.
zeboink 7 months ago
Yeah Leo Fender sure knew how to design a Guitar with maintainence in mind!!!! What a joke! Wouldn't have to take all that shit apart with a Les Paul! I like Fenders but that design fucking blows with the pickups and switches all on that panel.
Nellysman1 9 months ago
Thanks very much for this - well helpful indeed.
nico44441000 9 months ago
That is great stuff. What if you don't get any volume until you reach 3 on the knob and when you reach 10 you don't get any sound at all?? I have a LP trad. and the neck volume pot is on it's way out. I tried to clean it but the problem persists. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
LesterPaul01 9 months ago
@LesterPaul01 "Fuck yo' couch! Buy a new one you rich motherfucker!"
In the words of dave Chappelle, you're probably better of buying new hardware. Sadly.
chum1002 7 months ago
@chum1002 Suffer bitch. I am rich.
LesterPaul01 7 months ago
@chum1002 Hardware to Chappelle is a crack pipe, LOL!
thechimneywright 2 months ago
Help me out here, I am seriously thinking about using a carburetor cleaner instead cause contact cleaner isquite hard to find.
verbotenco 9 months ago
can you use wd-40?
ryannn730 9 months ago
Hey dude this is a cool lesson. I thought you might like to check out a new guitar website that really helps beginner guitarists. >> RexPearson. com << Would love for you to give some feedback and maybe even do a guest lesson for it?
Let me know
Rex
RexPearson1 9 months ago
what guitAr u got
thechrisandkevinshow 1 year ago
Thanks for this video, helped me out lots.
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mirekarama 1 year ago
are carb and choke cleaner sprays the same thing as contact sprays? i heard its also used to clean electronics. you think its safe to use it on my potentiometers?
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twisterellafell 1 year ago
Ewww, double fat strat.... Nasty.
atolleter 1 year ago
did he just have brain surgery?, or did he wake up one day with that thing on his head and say , 'yeah, this is a good look'. :P
ridgekarma 1 year ago
@ridgekarma LMFAO!!!!
kezzworld 1 year ago
You can ONLY use a Philips screwdriver kids. nothing else xD
Vicce82 1 year ago
HAAHAHAHHAHAHA work that knob! hahhahhahhahahaha
hazercopejeks 1 year ago
WORK THAT KNOB
alotbetterthanyou 1 year ago 8
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I thought the exact same thing when he said it! haha
GondolaOfDeath 1 year ago
Good lesson. You covered everything well.
meatbundle 1 year ago
Whats the brand or exact name of the cleaner he's using in the video?
SevenStringSlaughter 1 year ago
He said, 'working that knob'.
toolpool 1 year ago 2
this is easy peasy lemon squuezy
hate420breed 2 years ago
Yeah! Work that knob!
jafah666 2 years ago 3
omg thats bullshit about everything being bolted to the pickguard, it's way simpler to have it bolted to the body cause then you don't have to remove strings
rgjmce666 2 years ago
I was thinking this also. But mine is a vintage LP copy, open from the back, the pots have no holes, and it makes it dificult to do that spraying like he did because the pots are inside this small cavity. Any ideas?
phobik2000 2 years ago
mine got fixed, I just blew on it..
zealotifier 2 years ago
lol "im working that nob"
good vid mate
mikeymike89 2 years ago
hahahahahahahahaha
VicousMelodies 2 years ago
Il gueule comme un gros malade !
amarvs 2 years ago
This was good and very helpful thanks! Where the hell is my screwdriver,I'm going for it .
dawb52 2 years ago
thanks*****
FSK1138 2 years ago
What kind pickups would you use 1meg pots for?
ewwang 2 years ago
man this look dangerous, i would rather pay to get this done lol, im scared about electronics and stuff.
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sbeast64 2 years ago
hey david wat about if i'm turning the volume it doesn't stay up it turns of like really badly what has happened do i have to get new pot or can i fix it?
guitaristman23 2 years ago
Sorry I forgot an important thing DON'T DRY with HOTt air. you've got compressed air in the market, just be careful with sensible components dont break it. Thankx
jmbgouveia 2 years ago
DRY with a hair drying just be carefull and wait before conect.
jmbgouveia 2 years ago
MAN you can do it even in a computer power transformer main board etc, any electronic thing. just be CAREFULL to wait 30 minutes and dry and clean every thing before conect. cheers mates
jmbgouveia 2 years ago
LOL he acts like he's going to start fixing it and then he goes back to over-explaining what a pot is. He must be getting paid by the hour.
hastyberford 2 years ago
Would this work with a scratchy Wah pedal pot ?
laquatos 3 years ago
can you do this for 5 way switches?
spaterman 3 years ago
I doubt it, this is for pots, your problem is the current changing from positions, you may want to get a new 5 way switch (20 minuet project if you can solder well)
just map out what wire goes to what position (draw it out and/or take plenty of close up pictures)
good luck :)
WilliamBonneau 3 years ago
what type of guitar is that. is it just a strat with humbucker pickups?
mannnymanny 3 years ago
Fender Big Apple Strat
Snacnam 3 years ago
im going to get a 72 tele deluxe and people say its best to change the pots to 500 instead of 250 you know where i could find those? ive been looking online forever cant find shit
jayhawk808 3 years ago
must dave always wear a hat?
newyorkmonk2 3 years ago 14
@newyorkmonk2 Ye, he has a big hole trough hes head cuz hes elite :D
Oscarskate1001 1 year ago
@newyorkmonk2 because he is a pirate..
multiguitar23 11 months ago
@newyorkmonk2 he has no skull cap
TonyFeral 5 months ago
hi dave. i think there are eleven scews.
sbkwas 3 years ago
there is twelve
Kragoff 3 years ago
useful! now, i'll strat cleaning my pots..
JedTaneo 3 years ago
thanks for the video man.. i've been having scratchy pots for years but never really gave it any thought... thanks...
thecrazytapper 3 years ago
Nice video. I am not a regular guitar player but now I will know how to clean the guitar if there are any scratching sounds.
5/5
otisglock 3 years ago
5/5 man thx for the info
Markopolo018 3 years ago
I have a hollow body that doesn't quite have that easy of access to the pots (Fender Coronado II) could you do a lesson on how to clean those pots?
photosteeze 4 years ago
Dude, working on holow bodies is a night mear, theres so complex to do anything on in terms of repair, I have a Gibson Custom Shop ES-335 Dot
and when ever I take it in for a repar it cost a lot more becuase of the lack of accsesible areas
WilliamBonneau 3 years ago
All his vids are interesting.
good stuff as always
banjofred
hellofrederick 4 years ago
yea tell me how to do it on a gibson sg
lespaulplayer1111 4 years ago
u made a mistake at 3:00 i think. dont humbuckers give u the darker sound and single coils give u a brighter sound? correct me if im wrong
chriscoooley 4 years ago
the pickups do. the pots are opposite.
guitarrulesall 4 years ago
humbuckers = dark sound. So you use 500k pots to give you brighter sound for humbuckers. Single coil = bright sound. You use 250k for single coil to avoid excessive brightness.
JedTaneo 3 years ago
Really useful! I thought I had duff pots...
purplemonkeyelephant 4 years ago 2
what about strings he can't put them back :D
Sudoke94 4 years ago
Great instruction in practical guitar
electronics.
However, you forgot to test the pots (for
scratch) before reassembling the guitar.
It can be very annoying to have to take it
apart again if a pot needs some extra
attention. Especially if you put new strings
on.
olibobi 4 years ago
Working that knob!
metlguitar02 4 years ago
Hey Dave, how would that work on a les paul??? And do those string winders really help to get the strings off quicker?
WEIRDALROXMYSOX 4 years ago
yea they do try it they reeely save alot of time wen ur changing strings
kangaro0okid 4 years ago
i didn't know strats came in an H-H pickup configuration. unless this isn't a fender.
moodyhamoudi 4 years ago
its a fender
its a Strat HH, but they're discontinued now
capsaicinrain 4 years ago
you're both wrong, it's a big apple strat.
WEIRDALROXMYSOX 4 years ago
too bad... it would have been perfect for me.
moodyhamoudi 4 years ago
O.K
WEIRDALROXMYSOX 4 years ago
I'm not that good in English but I hear the man say that this is a big apple Strat with two Seymour Duncan humbuckers.......
kurkie1958 4 years ago
Yes, that's what he said.
WEIRDALROXMYSOX 4 years ago
thanks mate , didn't know that...
but I don't understand what you're saying that is contactspray... is it just air bottled to blow the dust away from your knobs???
willem576 4 years ago
yes. people use it for keyboards. the bottle turns really cold when you use it. its fun! lol
DRockT123 4 years ago
Not cold..... FRIGID! They also work well for effect pedals like teh wah-wah.
WEIRDALROXMYSOX 4 years ago
dude..its just a knob..
gibbybm666 4 years ago
I got a Gibson, Spirit.
bienmexicano 4 years ago
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not plsanning on working on my gi\uitar , how about some tips on playing songs on it?
garwig888 4 years ago
you gotta so all that just to clean a noisy pot????
reaperpro 4 years ago
On most Strats yes. However, on some special ones with no pick guard, there is a plate on the back right next to tremelo bridge cover. I have the HSS Strat with no pick guard so it's got nice any easy access to the pots.
TheOrganHero 4 years ago
never seen one of those...
WEIRDALROXMYSOX 4 years ago
HI SATCH
BlowBackBenny 4 years ago 3
haha thats what i thought
overgronE 4 years ago
hey man wath happen when you are cleaning and your little brother mess with the cables and leave everthing fuckedup
kharlos84 4 years ago
he gives me a lot of time to think
when he mentions contact spray i pictured some kid taking it and spraying it in his eyes
X]
sappychick 4 years ago 12
Haha, yea. It's hard to picture this as a 21 minute lesson, but you can tell he's talking to not just a specific crowd, but EVERYONE. Which I thought was cool, even though I already knew all this.
ShotGunRoleModel 4 years ago
@sappychick some respect plz lol ^^
Rangsey06 1 year ago
Hey since you are on the topic of pots n knobs n such I was wondering if you could help with a dilemma. My tone knob is broken,not the pot, the actual knob. Even when the tones at max the knob keeps moving. The inside of the knob stays still as it should but the outsidethat u touch keeps moving
zeemonkey187 4 years ago
WOW DUDE this guy can EXPLAIN
-hero
zerolohland 4 years ago 4
can you do this to a les paul?it would meen the world to me.
thnx.
juan909s 4 years ago
tu parle tro
tenturlure 4 years ago
C'est vrai, il parle beaucoup.
MichaelBradus 4 years ago
I have this "problem" on my old strat that i am completely rebuilding, but i'm rewiring it as well so i'll probably just get new pots in too.
and I could be wrong but... there's only 11 screws holding the pickguard, right? :p not 12 xD
jernov 4 years ago
Fantastic!
mooghammondb3 4 years ago 2
yes 11 :-D
55nick15 4 years ago
can you show us how to adust necks on a Fender Strat because mine looks like it needs a phillip's head skrew driver and it looks like I need to take the neck off because it is only adjustable near the neck pickup and it doesn't have a carving in the guitar body like my Kramer Pacer from 1982.
someweirdkid95 4 years ago
You have to loosen the screws that hold the neck enough to lift it up to fit in a screwdriver. Complete neck removal is not required. Be careful with the truss rod. Adjusting it improperly can permanently damage your neck.
klgh45 4 years ago
Not to be an ass, but a potentiometer is not a variable resistor, it's a voltage divider. It does not control the current (like a variable resistor), it controls the voltage.
covidiu 4 years ago
If you increase the electrical resistance in the circuit, you'll decrease the current flow.
ErlendG 4 years ago
The potentiometer does not work like that. That was the whole point. The potentiometer is not a single resistor. It's a circuit made out of two resistors, one of which (fixed -- the reference resistor) consists of the whole resistive surface and the other one (the variable one) is just the part between the slider and one end of the resistive surface. And what you end up controlling when you turn the knob is the ouput votage, not the amperage (as you would with a single variable resistor).
covidiu 4 years ago
Very helpfull video thanks.
But when you took off the pickguard, I was terrified man :-S. Like an operation or something... please, don't ever do it again.
Rock on.
jacketero 4 years ago
Oh yes, work the knob David! WORK IT! Great video!
Spacemonkeymojo 4 years ago
I think i've seen this guy alot of times looks familiar to me i wonder why...
SuperStrattt 4 years ago
I have that guitar. Its pretty awesome.
Wolfkonigen 4 years ago
you're the coolest techer in the world...
euroboy49 4 years ago 2
Also another way to take care of this, if you do not have any of this cleaner then a vacum cleaner works great. Also the Squier standared Strat. with no pcik guard has to be opened in the back smaller plate.
TheOrganHero 4 years ago
laat dat over aan profesionals !!!
diddlfreaky 4 years ago
dan moet je niet naar feedback gaan, die slopen je gitaar waar je bij staat! mijn PRS moest na ene bezokeje nieuwe tuning pegs.
BTW
You rock david, a great teacher
morty1988 4 years ago 2
How would you do this on a Les Paul? There's no pickguard like a strat's on it. And also if you have an HSS strat, what would the K value be for that???
Rock on
~Josh
WEIRDALROXMYSOX 4 years ago 2
There should be a little plastic bit on the back of your guitar. Unscrew it and the pots are there :)
JohnW92 4 years ago
250K for single coil tone and 500K for humbucker tone. strats usually have tone for neck and mid pickups though so it will probably be 2 250K pots. but if you want to swap one of the tone pots to the bridge pickup you would need to get a 500K pot.
JohnW92 4 years ago
K, lol no pun inteneded, thanx
WEIRDALROXMYSOX 4 years ago
i miss the vids where you are in that office or whatever and you can see your other guitars.
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iMcSubs 4 years ago
how many guitar do u hav cuz ive seen some of ur vids and i see u using a gibson les paul epiphone les paul strats etc....
Z0S07657 4 years ago
My tele has super scratchy pots, and sometimes the volume control won't even work (i.e. I hear little/no output to the amp). Is that the same problem, and can I fix it basically the same way you're doing with the strat?
afkDave 4 years ago
Dude, major help man, that scratchin' was pissin' me off so much I was about to smash my guitar. Saved me big time. Rock on!
SkeletorNinjaBear90 4 years ago
so thats how to get rid of the scrathing noise thanx
megadeath434 4 years ago
Dave, i been watching your video's for a year now, why have you ALWAYS got a hat on? Are you bald?
royal24 4 years ago
I just like hats - they keep my head warm
rock on!
DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
haha Fair enough then!
royal24 4 years ago
Can you make a video about how to tune my guitar?
uutub3 4 years ago
Hi - we have lots of tuning videos on the full on site at nextlevlguitar dot com
rock on
DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
i have a guitar like that but the pickups are in different places
guitarist1398 4 years ago
I think that u should do a lesson that teaches "how to read Standard Notations" cause that would be really helpful for bigener guitar players.
bbushraa 4 years ago
can you do a lesson on changing strings..that'd help tons for many people
JimPage4 4 years ago
we have full on video lessons on string changing on our full on site at nextlevelguitar dotcom
rock on!
dt
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
hey I is it the same for strat style guitars or just for proper ones
ShutTheToaster 4 years ago
But I thought it was a bad thing to cut all your strings at one time. I herd it could damage the gutair because of the release of the constant presure of the strings???
bratcher71 4 years ago
Thanks for sharing this information, it could be very useful one day. ;)
bbsb300 4 years ago
hmmmmm, my guitar had a pot but it was entirely deaf on the sixth volume setting, what happened to mine? and truthfully I'd rather get it done for with my luck, I'd kill it.
RanioftheNight 4 years ago
is their any side affects to drop D tuning the big string on the guitar. does it like not bend the neck enough or what. and i tried to change the action on my stratocaster and now it sounds horible should i go to a guitar store and have them re-set it up because it needs new strings to.
lthale 4 years ago
i would recomend, changing the string yourself, cause thats not to hard, but i would bring it to a guitar store to see how much it would cost to re-set it, and if its under your budget then get it fixed, but i could also be expensive too.
lkjhgfdsa68 4 years ago
they are the round cylinder things inside the guitar that are controlled from the outside by the volume and tone dials. im not big on the technical stuff, so consider that an idiot's answer :P
wachman 4 years ago
can you please do this on les paul? im having this trouble and i really need to fix it.
tangja 4 years ago
yes u can do it on a les paul. turn it over and on the back there are 3 sections the switch at the top and in the middle the pickups and on the bottom where the knobs are. take the screws out for where the knobs are and take the cover off the knobs are right there but bolted to the body and then you spray the pots and then reasseble the cover onto the body.
ultracomp2 4 years ago
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what will happen when you plugged in your guitar while the pick guard is popped off..??
mrk144 4 years ago
thanks 4 d video!!!know my guitar is not gonna suffer from dis scratchy pots...
mrk144 4 years ago
Nothing special in this one.
phabi0 4 years ago 4
These techy kind of lessons are very interesting for me, as a potensial future technology student :)
andyndr 4 years ago
It looks like Dave has an good general knowledge because actually you know what you are taking about. You know exactly how a potenciometer works ... and I allow myself to say that because studied this things ;) rock on!
ventiti 4 years ago
Be carefull loosening the tension on all the strings I did that and the bridge hit the body and put a small ding on one corner where both ends bend down slightly, it it was flat it wouldnt have happened not sure if this bridge is meant to do that on he american standard, put some thick card under the bridge it was nothing to do with dave by the way, i was trying to clean exces polish off from the fender factory gah its 2 days old
tratsy 4 years ago
hey! Dave has an other hat! =D
DuiVert 4 years ago
hey I have a question, alot of people tell me that if you take all the strings of a guitar that it could be bad for it. they say it needs constant tension. is that true?
redsN64 4 years ago
it's a good idea to leave the strings under some tension when storing the guitar. but if you just take the strings off for a short while to clean the guitar or something, it shouldn't hurt anything.
jedarama 4 years ago
sometimes it is necessary to take off all the strings so you have to do it. Try to avoid it - but you have to at times.
rock on!
DT
rockongoodpeople 4 years ago
Ok I tried to clean my pots like your instruction but they were ruined. I replaced the bridge pickup pot but my soulder gun broke before I got the neck done. What's a good brand/model gun to get?
tiamat321 4 years ago
well only if you have a certain type of bridge.... a lot of other guitars you could take em all off and leave em off but most strats have floating bridges so if you do take off all the strings at once try to only do it for like 20 mins max and then restring and retune immediately (just google for more info on ur bridge type)
sleepydog216 4 years ago
man can anybody help me in tuning lesson...i know the standard tuning and all the other drops...but how to tune halfstep and full step???i dont understand can anybody please help me...
fadetoblacklespaul 4 years ago
i want to know to c tune lol :P
rebelgamer94 4 years ago
okay first have your guitar tune to standard. After on the top two strings B and E strings play E flat which is 4th fret on the B string now with that note being played, tune the E string to that that will make your E string E flat. Once that's done go down each string and tune it as if it was standard but really your tuning to E flat. =)
josephcintron1980 4 years ago
make the low e string match with the 4th fret b string or what?????
fadetoblacklespaul 4 years ago
an octave below
77GUITARHERO77 4 years ago
just go by a chromatic tuner for $20 to $30... (cheap)
kmed7132 4 years ago
Hey guys, I've got a quick question, I have a Les Paul style guitar, without a pick guard. and I'm having the same problem with the scratchy tone controls. How would you fix that on a Les Paul style guitar? Also I couldn't find the rest of the lesson on the site. Might I suggest linking your videos from the site into the description of the video on youtube so it's easier to find?
Thanks.
Kast
Kast360 4 years ago