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12-16-2008, 01:08 PM
| | | | How do I install a tone potentionmeter?
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My mid tone knob on my fender deluxe bass broke i just got a replacment... I know there is some soldering involved which is fine but i couldnt find any instructions on how to install it exactly |
12-16-2008, 01:13 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | You want to look at the existing wiring, and write down or even draw a picture of how the old one is currently wired. Then de-solder it, and solder in the new pot exactly the same way. |
12-16-2008, 01:16 PM
| | | the repair guy i brought it to desoldered than said he didnt have the part ... so i dont think i can do that  this was like a month ago...
Im also wondering that because its my MID tone knob... since its not hooked up could the mids be messed up on my bass? it seems like the mid is maxed out |
12-16-2008, 01:23 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | A mids knob usually means a preamp powered by a battery. So it sounds like in the specific case of your preamp, maximum resistance means maximum mids. The pot is a variable resistor. If it's missing, and the wires are just sitting in space, well it doesn't get much more resistive than that. The problem will go away as soon as you install the pot. Since the original pot is gone, you have two basic choices: One, contact the manufacturer and ask for a wiring diagram. Some manufacturers have those ready to DL on their website. Two, experiment. There are only three solder tabs on that pot, and there are only so many combinations of connections possible, and you won't hurt or break anything by trying it a couple of different ways. |
12-16-2008, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | | I'd also like to recommend that you NOT take anything back to that repair person if he dismantled the bass, didn't have a pot, and left the bass disassembled. Hopefully you didn't pay him for his lack of service. |
12-16-2008, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by stflbn  I'd also like to recommend that you NOT take anything back to that repair person if he dismantled the bass, didn't have a pot, and left the bass disassembled. Hopefully you didn't pay him for his lack of service. | I defintely agree.. thats a pretty slack way to treat a customer.. No recommedations to your bandmates/friends for a tech of that scatterbrained mentality.. he doesn't deserve any. |
12-16-2008, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | | I'll probably be inside of one of my 3-band basses tonight. If I remember I'll snap a photo of how the pot is soldered up and post it. |
12-16-2008, 03:49 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Oh and I just realized the OP said it was a Fender- they definitely do have the wiring diagram on their site. You just have to hunt for it a bit. |
12-16-2008, 05:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | This probably won't be much help because it's the mid pot from an Aguilar OBP-3... but I said I'd post one, so here it is.
The wire colors are Green/Brown, Orange/Violet, Red/Brown  |
12-17-2008, 08:53 AM
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