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Post subject: Standard Jazz Bass wiring for single volume pot
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:32 am
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Hi there, this is my first post so be nice :)

I bought a Fender MIM Standard Jazz Bass a couple of months ago and absolutly love it, best sounding bass I have ever owned!
One thing I have decided after playing it for 2 months, I like both pickup volume controls set the same, and so to avoid having to turn two knobs, I'd like to take one out and just wire both pickups to one pot (and keep the tone pot as well). I can source a three hole control plate no problem, and I can physically do the wiring, I just have a couple of questions to clear things up.

Is this possible using the existing hardware (i.e. will I need to get a more beefy volume pot etc) to keep the same sound that I get with two volume pots?
Could I simply wire both pickups onto the same volume pot?

I understand the basics about the resistance of the pots, but I can't seem to find any info about whether wiring two pickups into one pot will affect the sound, and so thought what better place to ask than the Fender Forum!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

John


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Post subject: Re: Standard Jazz Bass wiring for single volume pot
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:39 pm
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disturbedmonkey wrote:
Hi there, this is my first post so be nice :)

I bought a Fender MIM Standard Jazz Bass a couple of months ago and absolutly love it, best sounding bass I have ever owned!
One thing I have decided after playing it for 2 months, I like both pickup volume controls set the same, and so to avoid having to turn two knobs, I'd like to take one out and just wire both pickups to one pot (and keep the tone pot as well). I can source a three hole control plate no problem, and I can physically do the wiring, I just have a couple of questions to clear things up.

Is this possible using the existing hardware (i.e. will I need to get a more beefy volume pot etc) to keep the same sound that I get with two volume pots?
Could I simply wire both pickups onto the same volume pot?

I understand the basics about the resistance of the pots, but I can't seem to find any info about whether wiring two pickups into one pot will affect the sound, and so thought what better place to ask than the Fender Forum!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

John


Welcome!

It is possible and you can certainly use the existing hardware.

Wire both positive wires of the pickup to one of the volume controls as you see them now. The tone pot would still be wired the same coming off the one volume pot.

There will be a slight 'beefierness' to the tone as you are removing a parallel wired 250K volume pot from the circuit but in terms of the "big picture", nothing all that radical.

You could also wire the pickups in series into one volume pot but if you do, this would not only noticeably increase the output, but the tonality would then be seriously more 'beefy'; so much so that at this point that you'd surely do better with a 500K (audio) volume and tone pot.

In either case, the OEM capacitor can be left alone.

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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:54 pm
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That's brilliant, thanks for the fast, invaluably helpful reply!
Just had a look at the electronics and that seems totally do-able.
More beefyness is always good when it comes to bass :)

Thanks again!


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disturbedmonkey wrote:
That's brilliant, thanks for the fast, invaluably helpful reply!
Just had a look at the electronics and that seems totally do-able.
More beefyness is always good when it comes to bass :)

Thanks again!


Glad to help and good luck!

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