300K volume pots

[Lanark]

Ok, as long as I've got the Super-Sonic apart while I send back the pickups for a rewind I'm entertaining the idea of upgrading the pots while I'm at it.

There are no tone pots on the Super-Sonic and the one thing I found about the working neck pickup was that it was exceedingly bright. Very Telecaster type bright and crisp. It's kind of nice, but I worry I'm going to end up with a very teeth gritting sound in the end with a similar working bridge. It'd be great if I were starting a Minutemen cover band (I just don't have teh skillz), but maybe not so good for the normal crap garage thing I do.

There are a pair of 500K volume pots in there now.

I was considering exchanging them with 300K pots to see if that would warm things up or at least shave the edge off of high end. (I know that Gibson uses 300K pots on some guitars.)

Seem like a good idea? Anybody done it?

Or might I just be better off just upgrading the 500K's and making my tone adjustments on the amp?

[Mike]

Lowering impedance of the pots will dull the sound treblewise across the range of the pot, also increasing the cap value (although you don't have tone controls) will do this.