Pots wired wrong?!!

Bass. · #1 07-30-2006, 10:59 PM

I recently put my bass back together. (post in basses). I wired it all up. Thinking it would be great, But i tried it out and the bridge volume only works if the neck volume is hooked up (bridge pickup soldered into the first volume pot due to a short wire). And there's no smooth transition of sound. goes from real raw to a real fat tone. and the tone doesn't reall work at all.
does anyone know where i might have made a mistake?
ill post pic's if necessary. are they?

PilbaraBass · #2 07-30-2006, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Bass.

I recently put my bass back together. (post in basses). I wired it all up. Thinking it would be great, But i tried it out and the bridge volume only works if the neck volume is hooked up (bridge pickup soldered into the first volume pot due to a short wire). And there's no smooth transition of sound. goes from real raw to a real fat tone. and the tone doesn't reall work at all.
does anyone know where i might have made a mistake?
ill post pic's if necessary. are they?

first off...how do you want it to work? "volume/volume/tone" for instance...

next, better than a picture is to draw a diagram showing EXACTLY how you wired it...carefully trace your wiring so that we can see what you did...

other question...what guide did you use to do the wiring?

Bass. · #3 07-30-2006, 11:18 PM

vol/vol/tone
is what i want.
i'm drawing up the scheme right now
thanks

Bass. · #4 07-31-2006, 12:51 AM

sorry about the compilation thing goin on, my scanner is small and i had to take two pictures of it.

but that's the basic wiring of what i did.
thanks in advance

EDIT: if there's anything that is unclear please tell me and ill explain.

SPLIT WIRE (ONE INSIDE THE OTHER)
thanks

Nick Ioannucci · #5 07-31-2006, 09:38 AM

go to fender.com, and go to the support section, and look up the wiring schematic for your bass or any jazz bass, with v/v/t (no deluxe models) this will show you the correct way to wire your bass, because i cant really read your diagram all that well. then just check that. also there shouldnt be a wire attached to nothing, is it the bridge ground?

Bass. · #6 07-31-2006, 09:44 AM

i'm not sure if it's the grounding. cause there's a grounding wire coming from the tone.
it's a pot fromt he humbucker's bass. and i think it used to go to the input. i'm pretty sure.

Nick Ioannucci · #7 07-31-2006, 02:02 PM

i never asked, what kind of bass is it? just go to the manufacturers website and get the wiring diagram for it, or did you try and throw somehting custom together?

JustOpenYourMind · #8 07-31-2006, 02:45 PM

the correct way to do it:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...jazz_bass.html

Bass. · #9 07-31-2006, 03:06 PM

it's a compilation. it's a squier p. but then i put a humbucker on it. and i did what the wiring said to do and now the bridge pickup pot doesn't work at all.

does it matter what kind of wires i use? cause they all got jumbbled when i put them in my drawer. when i connect pot to pot does it need to be a specific type/color of wire?

JustOpenYourMind · #10 07-31-2006, 03:27 PM

the color or gauge of the wire doesn't matter for the bass to work.

I thought you had a jazz bass sorry.

I'd like to know how is the humbucker usually thay have more than 2 wires coming from them some of them needs to be soldered together.

Is your musicman pickup active? if yes it won't work if you don't hook up a battery.

I don't really know of a wiring diagram with a P and MM pick-ups. you could look at the musicman wiriing diagram there:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...music_man.html

and try that one :http://www.seymourduncan.com/support.../p-j_bass.html while soldering the correct wire from the MM pick up together...

Nick Ioannucci · #11 07-31-2006, 05:58 PM

you lost me, i have no idea whats going on now. you have a p/mm combo? ive never wired anything up like that before, look at the 2 diagrams above and see if you can figure it out.

Bass. · #12 08-01-2006, 01:34 AM

well, it's ahumbucker. it's not a mm. it's from an ibanez. ASB140.
it's only got one wire coming from it. and then at the end two from
it, one which has a coating around it. and then one that is just coming out of the original wire. (i hope that wasn't too confusing)

both basses were previously passive, as is the creation i'm making. thanks for the help everyone. i appreciate it. i would never have been able to do this on myself