I desperately need help. wiring

[Rob_NIB]

due to my impatience i am stuck right now. i have already removed my last pickups and preamp to install the american made bartolins and agular obp-3 i just bout. i have wire the eq and pushpull stuff. i need help on where to wire the pickups and the preamp cus the diagram for that doesnt make since. also i need help with the ground and try to make it easy for me i dont understand stuff like hot to ground and stuff. this is my first wiring. by the way the bass is and ibanez sr506. plese helppppppppppp

[willsellout]

Can you find a diagram online that you can link so people can see what the problem is? Either that or just have someone install it for you. It shouldn't be too expensive.

[Rob_NIB]

http://bartolini.net/instructions/pi...g/4cnd_sw1.htm
that is the diagram. i dont understand does the green and gray wire get attached to the gold olate or the black wire that comes out of the bass. is the black wire out the bass the ground

[line6man]

Originally Posted by willsellout

Can you find a diagram online that you can link so people can see what the problem is? Either that or just have someone install it for you. It shouldn't be too expensive.

I'm usually very much against wasting your money on paying someone to do your wiring when you can do it yourself for free if you have basic soldering skills, however, if you don't even know what hot and ground mean, maybe you should consider leaving it to a pro. (No offense of course.)

IIRC, the Aguilar diagrams are fairly well drawn. I don't see what the problem would be?

[line6man]

Originally Posted by Rob_NIB

http://bartolini.net/instructions/pi...g/4cnd_sw1.htm
that is the diagram. i dont understand does the green and gray wire get attached to the gold olate or the black wire that comes out of the bass. is the black wire out the bass the ground

By "gray wire" I assume you mean the bare shield wire from the pickup?

Please elaborate on this "gold plate" and "black wire that comes out of the bass"?

Are you referring to a pickup grounding plate?

[Rob_NIB]

by gold plate i mean the pickup grounding plate and by gray i mean the bare. but the main thing that is confusing me is there is a black wire that comes from my bass it is from the bridge area. where does that go

[line6man]

Originally Posted by Rob_NIB

by gold plate i mean the pickup grounding plate and by gray i mean the bare. but the main thing that is confusing me is there is a black wire that comes from my bass it is from the bridge area. where does that go

It's the bridge ground.
Connect it to the nearest ground point, such as the back of a pot.

[zone1]

Those brass plates are for the pickup cavity shelding. Put the black foam strip between the plate and the pickup, like they were before with the Mk1's, and solder the shield leads to the back of one of the pots. Solder the green and bare pickup wires to the back of one of pots also. Solder the black pickup wires(hot) to their corresponding lugs on the blend pot, probably the middle ones on the stacked pot. Leave the red and white pickup wires soldered together and taped for normal humbucker mode, unless you want to split them.