2 pickup controls?

[Cliff Bordwell]

When it comes to a 2 pickup bass, which do you prefer?
Volume / Volume
or
Volume / Blend
or
Rotary switch

 

[ibz]

Volume Volume since I have full control over each pickup.

But I do like rotary switches for playing live, just because of the simplicity of having set positions.

 

[Trevorus]

I voted vol/vol, but a lot of actives are blends, and I don't mind them. I might change my active jazz deluxe to volume/volume.

 

[calebplaysbass]

vol/vol for sure. i just don't get what i want from a blend or rotary switch

 

[Kael]

6 of one, half dozen of the other...

You can achieve the same results with either vol/vol or vol/blend. I wouldn't really want a switch as that would be limiting.

 

[Mr_Dave]

hi,

i like vol/vol but vol blend means you can smoothly turn up and down your volume or do swells without ruining your blend.

 

[Cliff Bordwell]

That is a good point, being able to adjust your over all volume and still keep the same pickup mix.

 

[Tony G]

Being that I changed the congfiguration on my Jazz from vol-vol-tone to vol-treble/bass stack-mid push/pull-blend, I can say that I am much happier having only one volume knob. It is a much more precise configuration.

 

[mark beem]

When it comes to a 2 pickup bass, which do you prefer?
Volume / Volume
or
Volume / Blend
or
Rotary switch

Main volume & blend..

 

[superbassman2000]

That is a good point, being able to adjust your over all volume and still keep the same pickup mix.

thats why i like Vol/Blend

i figured out that vol/vol really is the same as Vol/blend, as the vol/vol can achieve the same ratios of bridge/neck pickup as a blend control can.

 

[bmc]

Set the volume once. Adjust your tone to suit the song, all night long if you have to.

 

[Cliff Bordwell]

Volume / blend is running away with it!
Where are all the traditional jazz bass guys?

 

[instigata]

tradition only exists to be overcome...

 

[Petary791]

I'm a blend guy for sure. I really want to switch my Jazz to V-B-T. I like having a master volume so I can do cool swells and stuff like that.

 

[ehque]

i like the vol vol, simply because it works better in my head (makes more sense to me)

perhaps also because my dream knob configuration is neckvol-necktreb-neckmid-neckbass-bridgevol-bridgetreb-bridgemid-bridgebass. dont see how that would work with a blend knob.

 

[BassDerek]

My spector is vol-vol, but its such a pain. once one pickup is turned down just like 10% of a full turn, you already can't hear that pickup. blend achieves just as good of a job, and I miss the ability to be able to do swells without having to turn 2 knobs.

 

[steve21]

My new Ibanez is Vol/Blend, I love it. I'm going to be putting a Vol/Blend on my jazz when I upgrade the pups in the summer.

 

[puff father]

vol/vol cause I'm not pending the extra to get vol/blend on my new bass. I'll deal with it even though I think I might like vol/blend better.

 

[BassGod]

I like volume/blend. But an added switch would be convient for on-the-fly kinda stuff. Like a quick tone change to the neck pickup for tapping, etc.

But I cannot stand volume/volume configurations.

Graeme

 

[KJung]

I used to think that the volume blend was the way to go, but since I have been using the volume/volume circuit on my Celinder (the first volume/volume I've owned since my Ric in the 70's!) I can't believe how much more control you have over the blending of the pickups. Every volume/blend I've ever used (Sadowsky, Fodera/Pope, MTD, etc.) reaches its full range at the very, very start of the 'off center' setting... in other words, they act much more like a pickup selector switch.

The volume/volume of the Celinder is evenly and infinitely blendable. I have no idea if this is particular to the Celinder, or the difference between volume/blend and volume/volumes in general.

I do miss the 'master volume' type thing.. but that's a small price to pay to be able to actually blend the pickups through the entire ranges of the pots.