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Does anyone know what volume taper for Ibanez?

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2023 1:57 pm
by andrewsrea
I have a client who ordered a set of my PAF replicas, the AMI 'Mr. Butterfingers'. He wanted his Ibanez AS53 to sound exactly like my Ibanez AM70. It has been a very long time since I had the pots of mine out, but believe I changed out the volume pots from linear-taper, to audio-taper. That would have been long before I kept records of such changes.

Anyone know what new Ibanez semi-hollow's come with - linear or audio taper volumes?

Re: Does anyone know what volume taper for Ibanez?

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2023 12:24 pm
by andrewsrea
ANSWERED: The Ibanez AS53 comes stock with linear-taper for 'volume', as most Ibanez do.

I slipped in a D500K Bournes (audio, low friction) with a 180K + 220pF series treble bleed. This guitar sounded fantastic with a set of PAFs. Nigh and day compared to the ceramics.