Hi and thanks in advance for reading this:
I’ve never had a bass with 2pick up before but now I find I have 2 good pickups to replace the disappointing 1 on my precision copy so I thought what I would do is use a blend but I found them kinda counter intuitive when I have encountered them in the past and in stores, etc plus I’m now hearing from various forums that there’s problems with graduations/variations and suchlike and two volumes are the only way to go? But two volumes are just too messy from me to handle “in the heat of battle“, as it were.
I had originally thought of making a true blend control out of variable resistors on 2 wafers of a 11way rotary switch but trying to find one that’s the right size to fit into a PBass cavity is a bit of a nightmare!
So I thought if selector switches are good enough for teles then they’ll be good enough for bass(!) and those subtle variations inbetween, Say, 80% bridge pick up/20% neck pick up will, alas, have to be sacrificed for the sake of simplicity or would those “subtle variations” available when two-volume pots are used be possible as presets within the rotary switch?
While looking for just a three way selector diagram, I started hearing about a possible 4 or more positions -much like the 4way telecaster mod where one has both pickups in series that I’ve liked on telecasters I’ve modded- so Maybe my multiple rotary idea isn’t a dead end?
My main criteria is to have a replacement “tone control” that gives a brighter, lighter or softer signal the more it’s turned clockwise and the tone seems to get darker/stronger when turned anticlockwise for intuitiveness’ sake.
My ideal would be would have to have the jazz Single coil on its own in one setting; the precision humbucker, In series with itself & on its own in another setting & both of these together in parallel
(100%/100%) as a bare minimum
It would be very nice to have a fourth position where the precision humbucker is alone & in parallel with itself but certainly a major secondary consideration would be to have both of them in series with each other(Like that four-way tele mod) and IF the Humbucker could be reduced in volume so as not to overpower the single jazz during this then that would be great or IF there is the possibility of a fifth or even sixth option where the humbucker is in parallel with itself BUT also in series with the Jazz single coil that would be even better -especially if this is in keeping with that convention of the so-called “tone” control going to the right being brighter and going counterclockwise to the left being darker!!
Maybe I’m asking too much but If there was just the telecaster four-way wiring available I suppose I could also put a series/parallel push/pull on the volume pot for the precision but would that be a bit finicky on stage..?
BTW I’m assuming that putting the precision ‘bucker out of phase with itself or just putting the both pickups out of phase (half or otherwise) with each other -whether or not that midd humbucker is in series or parallel with itself or in phase with itself, or whatever- is likely a bad idea…?
Any thoughts or especially diagrams you have for anything I’ve mentioned above will be greatly appreciated but either way I thank you for the time you’ve taken in reading this already long thread!
I’ve never had a bass with 2pick up before but now I find I have 2 good pickups to replace the disappointing 1 on my precision copy so I thought what I would do is use a blend but I found them kinda counter intuitive when I have encountered them in the past and in stores, etc plus I’m now hearing from various forums that there’s problems with graduations/variations and suchlike and two volumes are the only way to go? But two volumes are just too messy from me to handle “in the heat of battle“, as it were.
I had originally thought of making a true blend control out of variable resistors on 2 wafers of a 11way rotary switch but trying to find one that’s the right size to fit into a PBass cavity is a bit of a nightmare!
So I thought if selector switches are good enough for teles then they’ll be good enough for bass(!) and those subtle variations inbetween, Say, 80% bridge pick up/20% neck pick up will, alas, have to be sacrificed for the sake of simplicity or would those “subtle variations” available when two-volume pots are used be possible as presets within the rotary switch?
While looking for just a three way selector diagram, I started hearing about a possible 4 or more positions -much like the 4way telecaster mod where one has both pickups in series that I’ve liked on telecasters I’ve modded- so Maybe my multiple rotary idea isn’t a dead end?
My main criteria is to have a replacement “tone control” that gives a brighter, lighter or softer signal the more it’s turned clockwise and the tone seems to get darker/stronger when turned anticlockwise for intuitiveness’ sake.
My ideal would be would have to have the jazz Single coil on its own in one setting; the precision humbucker, In series with itself & on its own in another setting & both of these together in parallel
(100%/100%) as a bare minimum
It would be very nice to have a fourth position where the precision humbucker is alone & in parallel with itself but certainly a major secondary consideration would be to have both of them in series with each other(Like that four-way tele mod) and IF the Humbucker could be reduced in volume so as not to overpower the single jazz during this then that would be great or IF there is the possibility of a fifth or even sixth option where the humbucker is in parallel with itself BUT also in series with the Jazz single coil that would be even better -especially if this is in keeping with that convention of the so-called “tone” control going to the right being brighter and going counterclockwise to the left being darker!!
Maybe I’m asking too much but If there was just the telecaster four-way wiring available I suppose I could also put a series/parallel push/pull on the volume pot for the precision but would that be a bit finicky on stage..?
BTW I’m assuming that putting the precision ‘bucker out of phase with itself or just putting the both pickups out of phase (half or otherwise) with each other -whether or not that midd humbucker is in series or parallel with itself or in phase with itself, or whatever- is likely a bad idea…?
Any thoughts or especially diagrams you have for anything I’ve mentioned above will be greatly appreciated but either way I thank you for the time you’ve taken in reading this already long thread!
