Does Wiring the tone capacitor have any effect on the tapor?

[txspecial81strat]

Im sorry for those who will say " ya know you can look through a tone of threads and yada yada.....I tried or else i wouldnt be asking lol. Thanks to a teenage mind a welder, a shop full of crap with no supervision. I can barely see what im doing as it is. 

Anyways, i have a problem using the audio taper pots especially on my volume control. I dont know what i am doing wrong and I am aware of how the taper works on algorithmic taper vs linear, but when i use them for Volume, as soon as i want to roll the volume back its like its moving through the the GOOD part of the tone as soon as i roll it back. its stays about 30% output until i roll the knob down to 2, then works like a regular pot. 

I have always wired my single coils with 50s wiring. I never really had a problem with the way the tone effects the volume. I love the tones i can get out of it, i know the man here will educate me on how treble bleeds are actually better, but im hard headed. haha

Anyway, is there something i am doing wrong possibly? I know there are many ways to wire the capacitors and everything for the tone controls, is there a specific way that you DONT want to do? Like a wrong way that messes with the taper of the volume pot? I dont seem to have the problem using Linear pots , B250k/B500 for volume, Audio pots for tone usually. 

edit: i dunno if it matters but i am adding SD phat cat p90s, in a tele style guitar. 500k pots....

[txspecial81strat]

Can wirign my signal input/output wire on the volume pot reverse this problem?

[newey]

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No one's going to criticize you for liking '50s pot wiring, we all have our preferences and you are hardly alone in that one.

Most people do prefer linear taper pots for volume controls for the very reason you cite. As to that, you're not "doing anything wrong", just the nature of the beast. So, just use linear taper pots for the Vs.

To answer your other question about tone pots, the cap can be wired into the circuit in a couple of different ways, but they are electrically equivalent. I don't think however it is done will affect the taper, but I could be wrong on that, so let's await the input of others.

If you're wondering why some manufacturers use audio taper pots for both, bear in mind that it costs money to stock different parts, it's cheaper to use the same for both, and most of their customers won't know or care. My (totally non-scientific) estimate is that probably 75% of guitarists never touch the knobs on the guitar anyway.

[Yogi B]

Aug 26, 2021 5:24:56 GMT -5 newey said:

No one's going to criticize you for liking '50s pot wiring, we all have our preferences and you are hardly alone in that one.

On the flipside:

No one's going to criticise you for preferring linear volume pots. Again it's just a preference — what works best for you, your playing style, and your gear.

As for liking '50s wiring, I'll not pass judgement yet. First I have a question...

Aug 26, 2021 0:50:52 GMT -5 txspecial81strat said:

Anyways, i have a problem using the audio taper pots especially on my volume control. I dont know what i am doing wrong and I am aware of how the taper works on algorithmic taper vs linear, but when i use them for Volume, as soon as i want to roll the volume back its like its moving through the the GOOD part of the tone as soon as i roll it back. its stays about 30% output until i roll the knob down to 2, then works like a regular pot.

Is this a problem that you notice all the time? Or (since you think it could be something to do with the way that the tone control is wired) is the volume's taper fine when the tone set fully open (brightest setting) and the issue only really presents itself when you've rolled the tone pot down by some amount?

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Aug 26, 2021 5:24:56 GMT -5 newey said:

If you're wondering why some manufacturers use audio taper pots for both, bear in mind that it costs money to stock different parts, it's cheaper to use the same for both, and most of their customers won't know or care.

At least in my experience it tends more to be the country (or more generally continent) of origin, that determines the taper of the stock volume pots. And although there is some correlation between place of manufacture and cost of the instrument, it certainly isn't absolute.