PICKING A TREBLE BLEED?!?!? Keeping the HIGHS! 

Excellent info, brother! I just recently discovered treble bleed after 20 years of playing. lol. Biggest change in the way I set my amp and use volume in my playing and tone shaping. Keep up the videos. 🎸🤘👍

Thank you so much nik! This is going to help a lot. Testing different ones out this week.

I had muddy roll-off issues with my '02 Tradition CAB10 Tele before rewiring w/a premium kit that came with a 0.001 microfarad orange TB capacitor i briefly attached to the volume pot for almost a month when I realized I didn't really need it so I took it out. I dealt with that muddy roll-off on my '95 Fender MIM Strat Special for years until i swapped out the volume pot for an Alpha before i rewired IT completely after the HSS/SSS conversion. I have CTS 250K pots in both guitars and with pots like those, there's no need for a treble bleed cap when retaining highs rolling off the volume and I really like that!

Awsome vid as always bud definitely going with the jumpers great idea

Beautiful Strat love the SRV sound

Hey Nik! Appreciate this video thanks.

Glad to hear you playing again! Sounds like your hand is better and everything is right with the world! Great video!

Great playing! Thanks for the video!

I LOVE TONE TIME IT"S MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE DAY!!!!

Glad I found your channel. Thank you.

That's a beautiful 61 Strat ! Lucky find !

That Strat sounds AMAZING

I don't usually comment on videos but I have to say this channel is brilliant!!! Please keep the videos coming I loved the Philip sayce interview and videos like this that cut through the bullshit on the web and just give facts are fantastic!!! Keep up the good work, your tone is awesome by the way oh and the pro reverb you and jesey davey modded sounded unbelievable!!!

The thing that sucks about strats, and treble bleeds, is if you want to experiment, you got to take the pickguard off, take the strings off, put the bleed in, and put it all back together. I picked a random one, and went with the Duncan Treble bleed, only thing about that one is it almost makes your volume knob useless. You got to turn it down to zero to get no volume, and there isn't much in between. Other than that it's good. I need to maybe try another one in the future. If you got a guitar with a control cavity in the back, it's a piece of cake, just attach the bleed to some alligator clips, and to the pot, and try different ones.

Here I am, the guy using a 30 foot coils cable to cut the highs. I use the bright input on all of my amps, which is a treble bypass, just later in the chain, It’s just what I prefer. I also replace every single pot with a Mojotone “Vintage taper” pot that’s at least 250K/500K. I buy them in bulk, but you usually get a 3% tolerance which is entirely acceptable. I only use Luxe caps in my Custom Shop guitars too, and they are in the 1% tolerance range in my experience. Jupiter/Sozo and Sprague Ceramite ceramic disc caps are really tight too. Tone is subjective , but a treble bleed objectively bypasses high frequencies. It’s up to you.

FYI: Some capacitors are polarized, meaning the are connected one way.

Thanks for posting this !........your tone is great !........curious about what pickups you ahve in there ?..............Thanks!

Also, every cable is different, which is apparently what the treble bleed cap is offsetting. I have a few different caps on a rotary switch, and a 500k linear pot in series, in a little box.

Cool dude.Thanks

Very informative... will do this later. But what's that value that worked for you? Maybe I can include that in my roster.

Like the video. Here’s a tip - use alligator clips at both ends for testing so it’s nondestructive. Would be nice to know what you ended up using at the end. Capacitor and or resistor value plus type. Thanks!

Nice thanks for recommending this to me in an older video you did. I ended up going with the kinman. Works great!

Thanks for the video, so what were your ideal values?

Thanks Nic ! I was so worried about my custom shop 1968 Strat Relic with the tone bleed altering the tone.

Hey nick lm using 100k pots in my strat wondering if the value range you recommend in the treble bleed circuit changes ? Cheers!!!

Hey bro' Subscribed awhile back after the first video you did with matt on that dallas expo. Been watching a lot of your videos over the past few days and I dig'em a lot. Regarding this particular subject: can a treble bleed circuit "get worse" over time? Or maybe a wire gets loose..? 'Cause either mine always sucked and I didn't realize it or something happened recently- the guitar sounds too dark with the volume set below 4... Cheers

Nik, would you be willing to do a treble bleed circuit kinman v duncan v a 50s wiring mod? From what I've heard, the 50s wiring has a cleaner, more natural sound. Cheers!

After a few tries to see what works best for me I find the Kinman is superior in that the volume knob stays the same and it works best with a fuzz box.

This was great, thank you! When you do some testing like this, are you stringing up with a new set each time, or reusing the same set? If reusing, do the vintage style tuners allow the reused strings to stay in tune fairly well? Also, once you've found your treble bleed, have you ran into any issues if you needed to use a different cable or anything? Thanks you!!!

Picked up a King Tone Mini Fuzz Ge couple weeks ago, and my Duncan Style treble bleed is now WAY too bright. Rolled off tone, bites your face off! Might do a push/pull on the volume (on/off)? I really like having a treble bleed for using a rolled down volume tone with overdrive? Almost never 🧐 want a muddy tone. Been using my tone pot to compensate, but now have to balance between two pots to get the right tone? Get the right tone is a lot of work!

Good man for not using stupidly hyped caps.

HEY NIK! if you could show how best to do some of the lead lines from the jimi hendrix song waterfall [ may this be love ] that would be killer i love that song and the snake'y lead lines on it.

What values did you end up sticking with?

Hey man,nice video! Can you tell me where did you get your caps? I've been looking online forever but a can't find the right place...or they are crazy expensive. Please..thanks

Bruh, that guitar is more expensive than your apartment building 😂 just teasin' ya. Thanks for the video

Search google for "PMT V-Treb Variable Treble Bleed Circuit". Very easy.

What a capacitor you use on this vdo Nik ? treble bleed

that's exactly the sound i'm looking for please tell me how? what kind of pickups are there and what amp do you use?

Or the difference between a linear pot vs treble bleed ?

Great video and playing. It’s kind of weird that you didn’t give the value of the treble bleed you ended up using.

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Hey Nik, Which value did you settle in? Just capacitor or cap and resistor???

Which value did you end up using ? I believe Nick Johnstone used something around 330PF. Would be a great help. Btw great vid.

Yeah I image cutting bass off into a Fuzz Face would be counter productive tone wise. I notice that the FF gets a really great sound when the tone control is on zero.Your making me think now. This would not harm the value of the guitar because it's reversible But I am thinking if you can find one these days. push on push off Volume pot and just cut the treble bleed out/on of the circuit. You sound Great Man.c];-)

How do you keep the sparkly sound with a treble bleed and fuzz? For me it just makes it harsh

Love the channel! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for strat pickups that sound like yours. Any ideas? I looked at Rocketfire and Rumplestiltskin to replace my Lollars. Thanks!

Nice info but the is dark visually showing the pots but good info.

What values should I experiment with? I have a John mayer strat

Any thoughts on variable treble bleeds?

What year guitar is this one? Is it original or re-issue?

What song plays in all your intros?

What pickpus are these (Fat50?) and what amp did u use?

So we can use the same technic for testing caps value!? Cool...

Hard to hear what your saying