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02-17-2009, 08:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: College Station, TX | | | swap active for passive?
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i want to get a MIM Fender Deluxe P but I don't want active electronics. can i get passive stuff to put in? there are 4 knobs on there now, and i want them to control P volume, J volume, P tone and J tone as if it were a passive bass. is this possible ? |
02-17-2009, 08:13 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Certainly. The pickups aren't active, so if you pull out the preamp it is a passive bass. |
02-17-2009, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Metro D.C. and Brooklyn, NY | | I'm doing this to a Squier Deluxe Jazz, V, V, T, T as well as a series/parallel switch. See my thread with a lot of good info and wiring diagrams
I just got my pots the other day, and wire, too. Will rewire it all from scratch. Dummy question...active to passive mod
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02-17-2009, 09:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: College Station, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bongomania  Certainly. The pickups aren't active, so if you pull out the preamp it is a passive bass. | how do i have control over volume/tone then? |
02-17-2009, 09:04 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | You will probably have to change the pots. And you will need a couple of caps for the tone controls, but other than that it should be easy.
A very inexpensive change really. |
02-17-2009, 09:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: College Station, TX | | | does anybody know the value of the pot and cap for the volume and tone for an american standard p bass and american standard j bass? |
02-17-2009, 09:27 PM
| | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jcphockey16 does anybody know the value of the pot and cap for the volume and tone for an american standard p bass and american standard j bass? | Go to Fender.com and look under wiring diagrams. They will have the layout and a parts list. |
02-17-2009, 09:29 PM
| | | | I thought I saw a wiring kit for sale in the TB classifieds in the accessories section. (not by me)
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02-17-2009, 09:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Metro D.C. and Brooklyn, NY | | | has anyone read my post? with my link? with all the info???
many of these questions can be answered there...
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02-18-2009, 07:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: St. Pete, FL | | | It might be a better idea to find a bass that already has passive electronics. I mean, you're just shelling out cash for a pre-amp you're gonna pull from it anyways. Not only that, but there's a sizable cavity left in the bass (probably... I know the Jag basses have pretty big routes) to house all the electronics you just pulled. That means less mass in the body when compared to another p-bass.
It just seems like a waste of your time and money. Have a blast if you do it tho. It'll definitely be custom...
The Jag bass has an active/passive switch. Maybe you can rig on of those up to the P bass somehow.
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02-18-2009, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: College Station, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Fratone It might be a better idea to find a bass that already has passive electronics. I mean, you're just shelling out cash for a pre-amp you're gonna pull from it anyways. Not only that, but there's a sizable cavity left in the bass (probably... I know the Jag basses have pretty big routes) to house all the electronics you just pulled. That means less mass in the body when compared to another p-bass.
It just seems like a waste of your time and money. Have a blast if you do it tho. It'll definitely be custom...
The Jag bass has an active/passive switch. Maybe you can rig on of those up to the P bass somehow.
$.02 | the only other similar bass is well over $1000 and doesn't come in black and i'm a black body black pickguard on maple kinda guy so it's a much cheaper way to get the kind of bass i want, so i dig the idea. i'll check out the active passive switch though, but still it will only cost like $20 to put passive stuff in. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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