Do I buy pots with new pickups?

[FalextheFalex]

Hey guys, I'm taking my first foray into building a bass from scratch and just have a quick question. When I order pickups, do they come with the needed pots or do I order them seperately?

[Stumpy]

Order them ... when I got my Barts they were not included

[keyboardguy]

Some goodies you'll need are at the Stew Mac site; Good service and a lot of items:

http://stewmac.com/


Regards,

Mike

[FalextheFalex]

Hmmm, cool, but another question arises. Should I get the 250k or 500k pots? They're passive jazz pickups.

[Nick Ioannucci]

250k pots are standard on fender jazz basses, 500k pots do the same thing, but the have for treble too them. usually i stick with the 250k. also, if youre wiring it standard volume volume tone, makes sure you get a capacitor for the tone pot.

[EricF]

I've always used www.basspartsresource.com, and never had a problem. The sell wiring kits for Fender-style controls that include pots, cap, and wire.

250k pots will be fine for passive J pups.

[Nick Ioannucci]

if you dont buy the kit, generally 22 gague cloth covered wiire is used, which is also available at bass parts resource. and to add about caps, .047uf is what comes standard on fender jazz bass. the higher the calue, the more highs you can roll off with the tone knob.

[massaloch]

I'll be installing dimarzio dp123's, which humbuck by have each of two coils serve two strings. Not sure what effect that will be on overall treble, and wondering if a 500k tone pot (and what value cap?) is in order. In fact, I'll be getting three new pots, all push/pulls, for series/parallel (per pickup) & phase switching.

I dont have the bass yet (ordered a fretless sx jbass knockoff) so I'm sure what's in there now ...

Mark

[Nick Ioannucci]

you wont need the 500k's. if youre getting all poush pull, what youre looking for are 3 250k DPDT potentiometers. and then capacitor, you could just go with a .1uf orange drop capacitor(can be found at basspartsresource.com)