NF3 SE Volume Pot Replacement

DrRx

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I just picked up an NF3 SE and it is great. However there is one glaring issue for me. The volume pot is almost unusable. Going from 10 to 9 bleeds an incredible amount high end out of my signal. I want to clean up a dirty sound and instead I get the equivalent of rolling my tone off. I have owned several guitars over the years and have never really learned much about wiring and electronics because I have been generally happy with how they sound stock.

Here are my questions
1) has anyone had and/or fixed this issue on this line of guitars
2) I prefer a brighter sound, would a treble bleed help
3) is this an issue more with the response of the pot installed (so much change from 9 to 10) and I should install a pot of the same value or increase it
4) if I swap volume pot, should I do anything with tone pot?
 
Welcome to the forum!

Before I added anything, I would change the pot and see where you are at
PRS doesn't design guitars with poorly functioning pots
They do on occasion get a bad pot
put a high quality pot in it and go from there
 
Here's a comparison of wiring diagrams - 2012 NF3 (w/ treble bleed) vs SE NF3

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Just replaced the volume pot on my 2013 NF3... volume pots have been the only thing that seems to go out on my PRS guitars. It was wired just as the schematic shows. I didn't know the SEs had different wiring!
 
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