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Post subject: Wiring pickup(s) on Fender Precision Bass via pots
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:47 pm
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I'm trying to put together a Fender Precision Bass that I got in pieces. The body was stripped of knobs, pan pots, and connecting jack. I bought 2 pots and the jack. There are 2 wires running from the pickup (1 pickup, staggered on this version, I was told one has coils in one direction, and the other has them going opposite, sort of an early version of the humbucking pickup for noise reduction). One wire is yellow that seems to unite the two parts of the pickup (1 bass strings, and 1 treble strings), and the other wire is red which apparently is the ground. When I connect the yellow and the red to the jack, and plug it into an amp, I get sound and the coils are magnetized....but when I run the same wires to the pots and connect all live wires together and all ground wires together, I get no sound at all. The pots have 3 terminals on each, the first one I've been told to bend over and solder to the pot itself. The other 2 are 1 live and 1 ground. These pots are identical. How can a wire sense whether it is a volume control or a tone control if they are identical? I can't get them to work anyway... if I could get a clue as to how Fender wires pots, I might be able to figure it out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I suppose I could just wire the jack and not use the knobs, but I'd rather have them working than not.


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Gary Hodges
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:13 am
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You should find a wiring diagram on Fender's own website, right here -
http://www.fender.com/support/wiring_di ... _lists.php


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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:44 am
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Bathead wrote:
You should find a wiring diagram on Fender's own website, right here -
http://www.fender.com/support/wiring_di ... _lists.php


FYI: That yellow wire that joins the two coils should not be used for any other purpose. The red wire is your hot and there apparently is a missing black wire which is your ground.

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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:29 pm
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Thanks to Bathead and Martian for the info. I downloaded a wiring diagram and can make a bit of sense of it, though I have no way of knowing what kind of Precision Bass body I have- no #s. Interesting that the comment was made that the red wire was the live one- another guitar dealer said the red was the ground. The missing black wire might in fact be the yellow one(?). My wires are yellow, red and brown(the bridge ground wire). I won't touch the yellow wire that connects the 2 parts of the pickup (bass and treble strings)- I can't even see the wire ends in that area.

Thanks again for your input- I had a good time reading some of the older comments on one of the topics- What the hell is a troll? In the debate between digital and tube amps- I side with the person who said it's like 60's muscle cars (old vs new Corvette)- the old ones have 1000 times more soul.

I liked the "That's my opinion, and it's worth what you paid for it"
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:34 pm
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warbeu wrote:
Thanks to Bathead and Martian for the info. I downloaded a wiring diagram and can make a bit of sense of it, though I have no way of knowing what kind of Precision Bass body I have- no #s. Interesting that the comment was made that the red wire was the live one- another guitar dealer said the red was the ground. The missing black wire might in fact be the yellow one(?). My wires are yellow, red and brown(the bridge ground wire). I won't touch the yellow wire that connects the 2 parts of the pickup (bass and treble strings)- I can't even see the wire ends in that area.

Thanks again for your input- I had a good time reading some of the older comments on one of the topics- What the hell is a troll? In the debate between digital and tube amps- I side with the person who said it's like 60's muscle cars (old vs new Corvette)- the old ones have 1000 times more soul.

I liked the "That's my opinion, and it's worth what you paid for it"
Gary H.


You're welcome. In your case, as you only have the one pickup (albeit, two halves), the ground and hot are reversible. The two most important are the link wires which properly create the one humbucker with the two halves.

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