• Treble bypass

As you roll down the volume on your guitar, the tone gets darker. I generally like this effect, but some people don't and there's a way around it. I don't have much experience with this, I've only used it on one of my guitars, but here are the options.

The simplest way to do this is to add a ceramic disk capacitor between the top lug where the pickup attaches, to the wiper (see top diagram). The value of the pot is between 680pf and 0002mf. The larger the value, the larger the effect. The drawback of this is the guitar might be too bright as the volume is turned down.

To reduce this, a resistor can be added in series (see middle diagram). This will soften the effect of the treble bypass. The value of the resistor is usually about 100K. For the strat where I used the flexible wiring scheme, I used this approach with a 100K resistor and a 0.001mf cap. This was the first guitar I've played where I found the tone change with volume to be annoying, and this fixed it.

The resistor can also be put in parallel with the pot as shown in the lower diagram. This changes the taper of the volume pot but has a similar effect as a resistor in series. The values for the resistor and cap are similar to the above values.

The values for the cap and optional resistor won't be the same for every guitar and every ear. The pickup, the value of the volume pot, and your preference will determine what works best for you. The parts are cheap, so round up a variety of caps and resistors and a couple of alligator clips, and see what works best for you.