Blend Pot acting weird.

[Libu369]

I have an active bass. It has a volume, bass, treble, and blend knob. The blend knob works nice in the neck pickup (50% and past the detent), but the lower of half of the blend (bridge/treble side) has a significant drop in volume, body, and all around signal (I have to play hard to play with distortion or it drops out). A multimeter determined it wasn't the pickups. WHAT DO?!?!

 

[Turnaround]

How are the pickup heights? The bridge pickup needs to be closer to the strings than the neck pickup to achieve the same volume.

 

[Libu369]

Right now the neck is lowered flush with the body and the bridge is almost at the strings and there is still a considerable difference, plus it still sounds like half signal with it raised that much, even.

 

[Last Rebel]

......had a similar issue in a Washburn Status,neck through.

.. replace the pot.!


.... Now when I seen the subject line about blending pot and acting weird???

...well.... it certainly got my "attention" ... ,

 

[Last Rebel]

How are the pickup heights? The bridge pickup needs to be closer to the strings than the neck pickup to achieve the same volume.

..... this too ^^^

 

[Libu369]

How are the pickup heights? The bridge pickup needs to be closer to the strings than the neck pickup to achieve the same volume.

The neck is flush with the body and and the bridge is barely under the strings and there is still a huge difference in volume as well as what sounds like a half signal.

 

[Libu369]

Thanks, all. I fixed it. Had it wired like a Bourne's when it was a Bartolini. Apparently the lug orientation is backwards.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

Thanks, all. I fixed it. Had it wired like a Bourne's when it was a Bartolini. Apparently the lug orientation is backwards.

Cool. Yeah, I just slapped a bourns blender in my pj. Wired it backwards. But it was weird. It had full neck front direction, full bridge back direction, then cut out completely at center. Switched the hot and ground, and it worked full rotation, but the pickups were reversed. Had to switch the pickup leads around. Works cherry now, but it had me scratching my head a bit. Hahaha