It's 2:15 AM and I can't get my blend pot to work

[Justyn]

Okay, it's 2:15 AM and I'm frazzled and I'm sure there's an easy answer to this problem, I just can't find it through searching.

I'm installing a set of Bartolini 59CBJDs in my Warwick Streamer along with an Aguilar OBP-3. I get sound with the blend at the center detent, but no sound when I pan. I'm sure it's an easy fix and I'm just too tired to notice it. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks.

J.

[luknfur]

Originally Posted by Justyn

Okay, it's 2:15 AM and I'm frazzled and I'm sure there's an easy answer to this problem, I just can't find it through searching.

I'm installing a set of Bartolini 59CBJDs in my Warwick Streamer along with an Aguilar OBP-3. I get sound with the blend at the center detent, but no sound when I pan. I'm sure it's an easy fix and I'm just too tired to notice it. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks.

J.

FWIW:

the Aggie diagrams should say it all. You're getting sound through it so it's miswired. Did you wire the crosses?

[Justyn]

Yep...bought it prewired from bestbassgear in fact, so the crosses on the blend are all set to go.

As of right now, I've got the back pickup working, but if I attach the other one I get the same problem...sound at the center detent and no sound when panning.

Here's my attempt at a diagram:

blend pot

x1 x2 x3
x4 x5 x6

x1 and x6 are connected
x3 and x4 are connected

x2 is the hot lead from the bridge pickup
x1 is where I attached the braided ground from the working pickup

x1 also goes to the ground tab on the volume pot
x6 also goes to the ground on the stereo jack

according to the diagram I should attach the hot lead from the second pickup to x5, which I've tried, and then I attached the braided ground to x6, which gives me the original problem.

Again, I know I'm missing something plainly obvious, I just don't know what that is.

Thanks.
J.

[luknfur]

FWIW:

check out the other OBP3/blend post. The dude figured it out and may be the same thing. It was reversing a hot and ground but had to do with the blend.

I've seen blends wired differenty, real differently, so I'm guessing there's more than one way to make a blend pot. Which is pretty much the way every other component for a bass is. Never really tried to figure it out cause I don't care how things work as long as they do - and blends always have for me.

Just cause you paid to have something done for you doesn't mean it was done right.

[Justyn]

As usual, it was a case of me not knowing enough about what I'm doing. Had the hot and the ground on the pickups reversed.

Apologies for wasting everyone's time...I am suitably humbled.

J.

[savinggrace]

I dont know why but this is one of my favoirite thread headings that I have seen on TB. For some reason it made me smile/ laugh. (Even though I am sure it was an aggravating experience.)

[ibnzneksrul]

Originally Posted by savinggrace

I dont know why but this is one of my favoirite thread headings that I have seen on TB. For some reason it made me smile/ laugh. (Even though I am sure it was an aggravating experience.)

We could make this an ongoing fill-in-the-blank contest...

"It's 2:15 AM and I can't get my ______ to work!"

[luknfur]

Originally Posted by Justyn

As usual, it was a case of me not knowing enough about what I'm doing. Had the hot and the ground on the pickups reversed.

Apologies for wasting everyone's time...I am suitably humbled.

J.

FWIW:

may still be some funk in the mix. From what you described and I've experienced you should have gotten minimal volume at the detent with it increasing either direction away - unless something else is miswired elsewhere so you ended up with that result.

I've thrown blends out of phase intentially via switching cause I've gotten some interesting usefull tones moving away from the detent. FAQ Dimento's phase/blend experiment.