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Blend Pot Problem with Aggie Pre

#2
bassksun said:
My blend pot grounds out at center detent! I get no sound at all.
Both pups should be on right? I used this

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Any help?
Thx!!!!
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Fair to assume there's nothing wrong with the diagram. If there is some sound (just significantly lower and thin, hollow sounding) the pups are probably out of phase. No sound at all then your running the signal to ground somehow. Check to make sure the jack is properly wired (especially if it's a flush mount).

I'd lay money something is not wired properly if the bass isn't copper shielded.
 
#3
luknfur said:
I'd lay money something is not wired properly if the bass isn't copper shielded.
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Thanks for the response.

Good idea. BUT I wired exactly to the diagram. If I blend to either pup it acts like a volume knob. In other words: at center -no sound, 1/4 turn towards neck pup-low volume, turn more and the volume gets higher. Same is true when I pan towards the bridge pup.

:confused: :confused: :confused:
 
#4
bassksun said:
Thanks for the response.

Good idea. BUT I wired exactly to the diagram. If I blend to either pup it acts like a volume knob. In other words: at center -no sound, 1/4 turn towards neck pup-low volume, turn more and the volume gets higher. Same is true when I pan towards the bridge pup.

:confused: :confused: :confused:
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Wired tons of stuff in the past and had the same experience lots of times, enough so to where I threw this phrase out of my vocabulary: BUT I wired exactly to the diagram - because the bass told me NO IT'S NOT, it just looks like it. Current doesn't have eyeballs or a brain to get in the way.

Thinking that way is just getting in the way of getting the results you want. Have I checked the jack with a meter, does the blend have crossovers, can I simplify this circuit to make it work and expand on that - those are the kinds of questions that got results for me. This thing is wired correctly why doesn't it work correctly got me where you are now - and kept me there till that thinking changed.
 
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luknfur said:
Wired tons of stuff in the past and had the same experience lots of times, enough so to where I threw this phrase out of my vocabulary: BUT I wired exactly to the diagram - because the bass told me NO IT'S NOT, it just looks like it. Current doesn't have eyeballs or a brain to get in the way.

Thinking that way is just getting in the way of getting the results you want. Have I checked the jack with a meter, does the blend have crossovers, can I simplify this circuit to make it work and expand on that - those are the kinds of questions that got results for me. This thing is wired correctly why doesn't it work correctly got me where you are now - and kept me there till that thinking changed.
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Ok...idiot thinking on my part...back to soldering iron.
 

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