No Load Blender Pot

I show what sounds you can get if you install the fender guitar pot no load 250k.

No load blender pot.

Between positions 9 and 10 the blender pot is completely removed from the circuit. A blender pot is a type of no load pot that will blend between two pickups that it s wired to. Hear the full presence of your pickups unaffected by loss of highs from your tone circuit. It s a useful mod that allows you to get a lot of tone options like telecaster tones out of your strat.

It controls the volume of each pickup and can even get all three. It s an american standard with fat 50 so the starting point is already good. Simply wire the pot section like a normal tone pot and the blender pot as needed. No load pots look like standard volume or tone controls and they function in similar ways but they are one of the most commonly misunderstood components in the world of guitar electronics.

This way whatever is connected to the cold lug of the pot is totally out of the circuit with a no load on 10 while it is still part of the circuit through a insert pot value here resistance with a regular pot. The capacitor and the pot are added back in smoothly as you roll off the control. This does imply unless you have a no load a blender mod with a regular pot will alway blend a bit. For example you can swap out your tone control for a no load pot but it will not work for the volume control.

The pro blender no load pot has no detent so the feel is click free. Our blender pot element takes the pot completely out of the circuit when it s on 10. Dial this pot up to 10 and it s removed from the circuit completely. Lindy fralin blender pot demo.

No load push pull pot. This means that you can use this push pull pot as a no load pot. No change in wiring is needed. This gives you a wide verity of sounds that you can hear in the video.

A great example would be a no load tone pot. The emerson pro high end cts blender pot mixes the neck and bridge pickups without affecting the five way switch. The middle pot becomes the master tone for the whole guitar. I must say i m really impressed with the two extra tones lovely.

While the bridge is selected turning the blender pot will blend in the neck. I also wired it according to the 50s mod. The blender is active only in position 1 and 2 bridge and middle bridge.