Get that Sparkle and Sizzle Back in Your Tone! | Emerson Custom 1 Meg Premier Pro Pots
Emerson Custom returns to the channel with their brand new 1 Meg Premier Pro Potentiometers — and they are a game changer for Jazzmaster-style guitars. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.
In this episode the Emerson Custom 1 Meg Premier Pro Pots take center stage — installed in the Black Bobbin Chicago Phantone with Lollar '63 Jazzmaster Pickups and Emerson Custom Treble Bleeds, into the Benson Amps Vincent 2x12" with Scumback H75-PVC speakers via the Boss Waza Tube Amp Expander. The Keeley-modded Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer and Effectrode Tube Vibe feature throughout.
Get the Emerson Premier Pro 1 Meg Pots: https://emersoncustom.com/products/emerson-premier-pro-potentiometers?sca_ref=6282128.5O9h8BhMpG
Check out the Black Bobbin Phantone: https://blackbobbin.com/collections/black-bobbin-phantone
Lollar '63 Jazzmaster Pickups: https://www.lollarguitars.com/63-jazzmaster
The Emerson Custom Premier Pro Potentiometers were three years in development — born out of frustration with COVID-era supply chain failures and Mitch's refusal to settle for the industry norm that CTS pots are "good enough." The result: a completely in-house designed and manufactured pot built from the ground up to Emerson's own specifications. Fiberglass substrate instead of the phenolic used in most guitar pots — significantly stronger, more rigid, won't bend or snap. Proprietary 20% audio taper — 20% output at half rotation — designed to feel and respond the same way in both volume and tone positions, with an unusually musical and smooth sweep across the full travel. 8% tolerance (920K–1080K Ω on the 1 Meg version). Oversized solder lugs for clean wiring.
The 1 Meg value is the correct resistance for Jazzmaster and Jaguar circuits — the original Fender offset designs were spec'd at 1 Meg throughout, which gives the pickups a different loading characteristic than the 250K or 500K pots used in most other guitar wiring. Lower pot resistance bleeds off more high frequency content from the pickup; the 1 Meg value keeps the full frequency response of the pickup intact. Combined with the Emerson Treble Bleed and the proprietary 20% audio taper, the volume knob cleanup explored from 10:51 is one of the most responsive and musical cleanup sweeps on the channel.
The Keeley-modded Ibanez TS9 is Robert Keeley's famous modification to the classic Ibanez Tubescreamer — one of the most well-known and sought-after boutique modifications in pedal history. Keeley's TS9 mod targets the tone-coloring capacitors and op-amp circuit within the TS9, opening up the frequency response and increasing the headroom and clarity of the overdrive character. Used here as both an overdrive and a clean boost to slam the Benson Vincent's clean channel from 07:09 onward.
🎛️ Emerson Custom: https://emersoncustom.com
🎸 Black Bobbin Chicago: https://blackbobbin.com
🎸 Lollar Pickups: https://www.lollarguitars.com/lollar-pickups
🔊 Benson Amps: https://www.bensonamps.com/guitar-amplifiers
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🎸 Black Bobbin Chicago Phantone | Lollar '63 Jazzmaster Pickups | Emerson Custom 1 Meg Premier Pro Pots | Emerson Custom Treble Bleeds
🎛️ Emerson Custom 1 Meg Premier Pro Pots | 20% Proprietary Audio Taper | Fiberglass Substrate | 8% Tolerance | Ibanez TS9 Keeley Mod | Effectrode Tube Vibe
🔊 Benson Amps Vincent 2x12" | Scumback H75-PVC | Boss Waza TAE
Recording: Universal Audio Apollo x4 | Ohma Ribbon | Lauten Audio LS-208 | Royer R121 & R10 | Ableton Live 12
