Recent content by Uncle Freddy

well, pulled the treble bleed caps real quick, plugged her back in and still doing same thing: with both pick-ups cranked, if I back either one of the volumes off more than 1/8 turn, this dramatically alters output level (up, or at least it sounds like the output level goes up) & tone .....it's...

back again guys, got the Foundation S is booming & sounding great ....question: what "exactly" do the treble bleed caps accomplish ?? I rewired the guitar per factory schematic and have noticed that with both pick-ups cranked (they are wired in series hum bucking) I get a nice, kinda glassy...

to bassmanrocke: optical illusion on that hot lead for the neck pick-up, it "is" soldered to the middle lug on the neck volume pot, it just looks like it's soldered to the ground lug ...I will connect both pairs of yellow & whites tonight and should be good to go ...thanks for all the help guys !!!

this makes sense now, thanks bassmanrocke .....my yellow & white wires are "not" connected, they are just clipped off with heat shrink on their ends and they must've been connected when I tore everything out of the cavity .....

all solder joints check good, no cold joints ....continuity beeping proper thru entire rewire ...for all hot paths and for all ground paths .....my issue is simple: cannot definitively nail down what wires are what for the pick-ups .......brown/green/white/yellow .....I want to get the guitar...

thanks guys, found a ton of the Jazz bass wiring diagrams on the web, as bassmanrocke says I would .....guess the issue now is what are my hot wires, what are my ground wires and what gets taped off & not used with my brown / yellow / green / white wires for each pick-up ...I will look at the...

thanks Mech .....oddly, the guitar was wired with the yellow & whites taped off, the greens as grounds and the browns as hots when I got it but you are saying that is incorrect usage of the wires or not in series humbucking ......if there is any way you can forward or send me the stuff you found...

hello again guys ....did a complete rewire on a Peavey Foundation S bass and I am having a problem: zero output ?? EVERYTHING you see in the pic is brand new: all pots, all wiring, all caps, jack socket, etc ....the only thing that is stock are the pick-ups & their wiring and the bridge ground...

I installed Fender .02s onto my Foundation's vol pots for the treble bleeds, but those sound like fun caps to experiment with ……

guys ...I will be VERY specific, with photos, of what I'm referring to with the 2 diagrams ...you both will see what I see .....then you can assess and comment accordingly .....until then, enjoy your evenings and your basses .....if you guys want to hear what I created between 2004 and 207 with...

OK GUYS, all of you .....oddness here that needs to be explained, in the pdf of the Foundation schematic that Major Softie and Stone Soup directed me too (links in our discussion thread) .....the RIGHT HAND bass diagram shows the two .02 treble bleed caps on both the volume pots as you would...

here's the shot of the tone pot cap currently in the bass ….http://s837.photobucket.com/user/HyMo3/library/Peavey%20Tone%20Cap ant recs on best cap to install in its place (or reuse ??) would be highly appreciated ……thanks guys ...

yes, "very interesting, BUT STUPID" ……!! (I'm 51) ….

got that, thanks Stone Soup ….but the treble bleed caps are on the volume pots ….I'm now trying to figure out what the actual TREBLE POT cap value needs to be ?? ….one would think it should be a .047 but who knows what Peavey decided to do when they built these basses ….I...

Stone Soup is correct, that green cap on far left goes from case to case(or back to back), and correct: case is ground so both sides of that cap are going to ground ….which means it does nothing - correct ?? ……also, the value of the cap on the tone pot has me confused ?? what...