alternative Jazz wiring

[brock29609]

Since the jack on my jazz is in the body, and not in the control plate, I was wondering if the following control setup would make sense for the 4 holes I have available...

master vol
neck pup vol
bridge pup vol
tone

Master volume controls are always nice since they allow you to get louder/softer without disrupting your pickup mixture, but blend pots don't let you make subtle adjustments. Anyone tried this? I know it's a lot of pots, but if I used all 500K pots could this work well?

[luknfur]

Originally Posted by brock29609

Since the jack on my jazz is in the body, and not in the control plate, I was wondering if the following control setup would make sense for the 4 holes I have available...

master vol
neck pup vol
bridge pup vol
tone

Master volume controls are always nice since they allow you to get louder/softer without disrupting your pickup mixture, but blend pots don't let you make subtle adjustments. Anyone tried this? I know it's a lot of pots, but if I used all 500K pots could this work well?

FWIW:

yeh you could do it and it wouldn't be an issue to my knowledge. If it works for you that's fine.

But you can get any combo out of a blend you can get with two volumes - however it's not intuitive and you still need to use two pots (volume and blend) to get a number of them. For example, to get half volume blend of each you'd half to set the blend at the detent and set volume to half.

If you used a blend that would open the other hole up for a second tone or a plugged switch for series/parallel/whatever (assuming you don't already have one).

[brock29609]

I'm just looking for a way to make more subtle volume tweaks than you can do with a blend pot. The slightest movement of a blend pot makes a drastic diff in balance between the pups.

[ehque]

you'll want high resistance pots to wire like this. 500K sounds ok, 1M isnt shabby either, cos the signal now has to run past 2 vol pots (coming from either pup).

im pretty sure using lower value pots will end up with a softer high-end, due to bleeding. may or may not be what you want.

how its done on my bass: i have vol-vol on a stack. when i want the volume down, i grab the stack and twist. i know, its not perfect, but it works well enough for me.

i actually recommend you get a volume pedal, if you play with your volume often.