Recent content by Sonicist

Are all of those pot body connections grounds?

sorry - didn't mean to put that GND there!

Ok, thanks a lot! I assume then that I should also move the tone cap leg to the wiper terminal, too? I mean: vol wiper terminal ---- tone cap ---- tone pot wiper --- GND

Hi, Is the ground connection really intact? You say you see no loose wires, but it sounds a bit like an issue I had with an Ibanez (passive bass, though), and when I opened it up I found the ground connection wasn't a cable, but instead a length of stiff bare wire. The solder joint had severed...

Wiper terminals are wired to the output, like the original volume is. ...Do you mean I have actually wired two master volumes now? I guess that would explain the kill effect. If I change the pickup hots to the wiper terminals, should I still keep the pot body as ground?

Greetings, I just added a DiMarzio Ultra Jazz bridge pickup onto my Ibanez Roadstar II, hoping to add some J-bass tones to it. For wiring, I simply copied what was done with the original pickup: I added vol and tone pots for the added bridge pickup, and the new pickup's signal goes to the...