Potless diagram?

[Underdog]

I want to have a bass without pots. Just pups straight to input jack. But as I Was popping open my Sx, I realized. Where do I put the ground? Grounding screw?

Someone draw me an ms paint diagram, please?

[photoshopgeek]

Pretty sure you'd ground to your bridge like normal. And of course your leads would run strait to your out jack.

[lemur821]

The body of the pot was just used as a convenient place to gather all the ground wires together. What you need is a new place to do so (twisting their ends together and soldering will work if there aren't too many). Run a wire from the jack's sleeve terminal, and make sure that everything that needs grounding is connected to that wire. These things should be:
1. Control bodies and any foil shielding. These two will probably be in contact with one another, so grounding the foil or any one pot will do you.

2. Ground wires from the pickups.

3. The bridge.

Each of these things needs to have only one path to ground, otherwise you'll get a ground loop and probably some hum.

[Dan1099]

Take the pickup negative sides to the sleeve lug of the output jack. Take the positives to the tip lug. Shield the cavity with shielding paint or copper tape. Screw a lug through the shield, and run the bridge ground to it. Run a wire from that lug to the sleeve lug of the output jack, where the pickup negatives are. Silent, and no knobs.

Be prepared for a LOT of high end.

[Foamy]

Originally Posted by Dan1099

Take the pickup negative sides to the sleeve lug of the output jack. Take the positives to the tip lug. Shield the cavity with shielding paint or copper tape. Screw a lug through the shield, and run the bridge ground to it. Run a wire from that lug to the sleeve lug of the output jack, where the pickup negatives are. Silent, and no knobs.

Be prepared for a LOT of high end.

Wouldn't one just include the chosen cap to bleed it off at a point of preference? Still, no pots.

[Dan1099]

Originally Posted by Enchanter_Tim

Wouldn't one just include the chosen cap to bleed it off at a point of preference? Still, no pots.

You could do that. But you'd need to make sure you put the cap between the hot signal and sleeve lug, not just in line with the hot signal. It might be beneficial to put a cap and a resistor between then hot lug and sleeve lug,thereby emulating a tone control slightly rolled off.

[Underdog]

I'm using this bass in a drum 'n bass band, so the high end is really sorta just me filling out where the guitars would be (especially with my amp's overdrive!)

Huzzah!