Jaguar bass went nuts... replaced a pot, advice?

[mr_goodbomb]

Two issues here. We were playing live and the volume pot, which I never used and is actually gaffer's taped down, started cutting out. Any time it got bumped, even from the vibration of the strings, it'd cut out and back. I went to get new parts for it, but they wanted an outrageous price. I came home and checked my parts box.

I just wired in a full-sized 500k pot in the place of the original 250k Japanese mini pot. I don't think the added highs will bother me, I might even like em, but switching to a mini pot works just fine, right? It fits in the control cavity.

[mulchor]

Sounds fine. I trust you checked the other solder joints while you're in there, ya?

[SGD Lutherie]

Even if you don't use the pots, you shouldn't tape them down. Give them a turn every so often to keep the contacts clean. if you leave them in one spot they can oxidize and start to get noisy or cut out.

[FunkMetalBass]

Alternatively, you could just bypass the volume pot when re-wiring, and throw a 250k resistor in its place.