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Club Sadowsky!!!

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got my new RV5-PJ!
 
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Romu said:
ash/maple good mix!..
someone tell me can why the balance of pickup is in reverse ?
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LOL! This has come up several times. It's a matter of perspective whether you consider it backwards or not, but it is what it is. The good news is, if you know how to use a soldering iron, the fix is SUPER easy and quick. If you aren't comfortable with that, your local repair shop should charge you the BARE minimum charge for this. All that has to be done is to swap two wires.
 
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yuujin said:
Hey guys, I am having a strange volume drop when I roll my VTC off on my RV5-PJ but this is not happening on my MV4-Will Lee. Is that normal?
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You should not notice a volume drop at all. The VTC is a passive tone that just rolls off the treble. Even totally cut you should not experience a big volume drop!
 
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Joeykun said:
You should not notice a volume drop at all. The VTC is a passive tone that just rolls off the treble. Even totally cut you should not experience a big volume drop!
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I realize this happens only when my volume is at about 50%. I roll my VTC totally off and the volume drops quite significantly. At full volume it works normally.
 
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Joeykun said:
You should not notice a volume drop at all. The VTC is a passive tone that just rolls off the treble. Even totally cut you should not experience a big volume drop!
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Hang on there, hoss. This may depend greatly on pickup type and cap rating. I do notice a loss of gain when I'm shuting that cap from signal to ground, which makes perfect sense.
 
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Vic said:
Hang on there, hoss. This may depend greatly on pickup type and cap rating. I do notice a loss of gain when I'm shuting that cap from signal to ground, which makes perfect sense.
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Hi Vic, I noticed it happens in my PJ but not my J. And it only happens around 50% volume, then rolling off the VTC completely. The odd thing is. It doesn't happen when the volume is full nor in my MV4-WL.
 
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yuujin said:
Hi Vic, I noticed it happens in my PJ but not my J. And it only happens around 50% volume, then rolling off the VTC completely. The odd thing is. It doesn't happen when the volume is full nor in my MV4-WL.
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The answer to this is probably very complicated and gets into what's called "pickup loading". The short answer is, just compensate for it by simply adjusting to taste. I don't think there's anything flawed here... just kinda' the way things are.

You'll notice when you drop the volume, you also get almost the effect of a little bit of VTC drop off. Just make use of that with maybe a bit less VTC drop added to it and that should get you there.

The only way around issues like this is to go with a preamp that does active mixing, which provides electrical buffering/isolation of the pickups from each other and even the output jack. The downside to that is, you can't have a passive mode option with that kind of arrangement. I like having a passive option for two reasons... one is it's a different sound, and I like versatility. The other reason is it's a nice safety net if your battery dies at a gig and you don't have access to another or a backup bass. IMHO that's kind of a rare case these days, so it's really more about tonal options IMHO, but to each their own.
 
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Vic said:
LOL! This has come up several times. It's a matter of perspective whether you consider it backwards or not, but it is what it is. The good news is, if you know how to use a soldering iron, the fix is SUPER easy and quick. If you aren't comfortable with that, your local repair shop should charge you the BARE minimum charge for this. All that has to be done is to swap two wires.
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you have a schematic? :)
 

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