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===Treble Bleed===
A treble bleed is a circuit designed to provide more consistent tonal output as you lower the volume knob. Without a treble bleed, the tone will lose more high frequencies relative to low frequencies as you roll the volume knob towards 0, causing the tone to become "dull". Sometimes this effect is desirable, but usually it is not. A treble bleed is relatively simple to install, and the parts cost about < $15. All you do is wire a very small value capacitor between the input and output (the other is grounded) lugs of the volume pot. Adding a resistor wired in series or parallel can help make it work a bit better, with different preferences for single-coil vs. humbuckers. See [http://www.ratcliffe.co.za/articles/volumepot2.shtml this article from Alan Ratcliffe] for more, but '''beware''' - ''when he says .001mf, he actually means .001μf''. The capacitor should be between 680 and 12,000 pf. That's a big difference - mili vs. micro! 1,000 pf = 1 μf = .0001 mf. My advice is to buy a few different resistors and caps and test it out using alligator clips in different series vs. parallel configurations.
==Actives vs. Passives==