HCP Control Pots

[4real]

HCP Control

Found this while looking for better pots for my strat (thinking bourne) and this looks a lot like my 'spin-select' idea plus some 'extra' features...

Any thoughts on what's going on here, a little on teh expensive side for what it is...

www.guitarelectronics.com/c=Rb75rsQX90yNPe44pvZjnMmdR/product/PMT-HCP/Humbucker-Control-Pot-w-Coil-Filters-For-Guitar-Bass.html

www.guitarelectronics.com/c=Rb75rsQX90yNPe44pvZjnMmdR/product/PMT-HCP/Humbucker-Control-Pot-w-Coil-Filters-For-Guitar-Bass.html

They seem to have a range of such module pots including adjustable treble bleeds...interesting ideas

[fergus]

Interesting. I can't figure out how to have two simultaneous 'spin a splits' while keeping normal humbucker operation without dual gang pots. hmmm

[JohnH]

Well, it seems to offer the 'spin-a split' or 'spin-a-split via a cap' options for each pickup, using the preset sliders. My fear would be that in setting out to control coil splitting on two humbuckers with one singl-gang pot, they have perpetrated some dreadful linking together of the two centre-tap wire pairs of each humbucker.
J

[4real]

Potentially it does use a push pull dual gang...my cheaper pull pots i have been using are built this way...that would do it. I wonder though if thye have found a good value for the pots also, 500 was way to big and i think one could do better than 25o audio perhaps.

Interesting idea. In my spin-select research i found that you could use the other side of the dpdt to add splitting to a second HB in the one control, but not variable. It is actually good to be able to mix Hb and SC sounds I've found, so adding such a control to both pups is perhaps not ideal. At least with the simpler one split, one variable, you have some potential to mix things up a little more.

I guess the cost is ok, but it does seem a fair bit for something so simple. The variable treble bleeds and such seem like and interesting idea...did you see them?