Bourns 16mm Blend Potentiometer

Bourns pots are simply one of the best out there for your instrument. With super smooth rotation, long life and a range of values for every need, give your instrument the pots it deserves. These pots have a center detent and come with either 6mm knurled shafts with18 teeth, or 6mm plain shafts. Make sure you match your knobs to the shaft size or you may end up with wobble in the rotation, or worse, a damaged pot from trying to force the knob on. Perfect for bass pickup blend controls.

What value should I use?

That depends on your pickups and the sound you want! The higher the value, the higher your output at full volume will be, and the more treble you'll let through. So if you have some real shrill pickups, a lower value can help tame them. If you want more bite, then a higher value like a 1meg pot will give you more output and treble. The only exception to this are active pickups which almost universally use 25K pots. Using 25K pots with a passive pickup will result in low output and mud and using high value pots with active pickups can cause a strange taper when rolling the pot and a brittle sound. 

Conventional values

• Single coils 250K
• Humbuckers 500K
• P90s 250K
• High gain pickups 500K or 1meg