Favorite PJ bass wiring

[PawleeP]

Wellllll....not really!

Having two volumes would make things more complicated but would also lessen the differences in the two combined tones (series/parallel) compared with either pick up on its own

TBH i’m looking for a a quick change kind of being a balancing two volumes is just too much hassle I M H O

Thanks though

sounds like you want a blend circuit then!

 

[CallMeAl]

Other. Mine is wired like a P bass, with the J disabled!

 

[merseymale]

sounds like you want a blend circuit then!

In between settings would be much more vague than the two definite parallel/series settings on a four way plus the “fading effects“ when trying to reach them would put us back into troublesome twin volume territory plus a second switch or push/pull would be needed for those settings

A simple four-way “tone knob” doing all these things would be much better in my opinion

 

[PawleeP]

In between settings would be much more vague than the two definite parallel/series settings on a four way plus the “fading effects“ when trying to reach them would put us back into troublesome twin volume territory plus a second switch or push/pull would be needed for those settings

A simple four-way “tone knob” doing all these things would be much better in my opinion

send me a drawing when u get it finished, sounds pretty cool.
wondering what a 4 way tone knob looks like too!

 

[kre84u]

vol, 4pos rotary switch (P, PJ in series, PJ in parallel, J soloed), tone aka Dingwall Super PJ 4str

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This is a really old post, I know, but could you clarify this setup? What you describe seems to use only three holes, yet you have four controls pictured. I have four holes plus a jack and looking for ideas for wiring my P-J.

 

[merseymale]

send me a drawing when u get it finished, sounds pretty cool.
wondering what a 4 way tone knob looks like too!

Rotary switch for you series/parallel guys!!

 

[merseymale]

This is a really old post, I know, but could you clarify this setup? What you describe seems to use only three holes, yet you have four controls pictured. I have four holes plus a jack and looking for ideas for wiring my P-J.

Rotary switch for you series/parallel guys!!

Basically, having two magnetic pickups on an electric string instrument Means that there are four settings or voices, as it were. The closer to the bridge a pick up is the brighter sound in the close in the dark

Choosing to switch to the bridge pick up will give one sale
Choosing the neck pick up give another
Choosing both together in parallel Like, say a tele or a strat, Will give another sound whilst having them both together in series will give a different sound again

what I’ve been describing is a rotary switch which looks, on the outside, much like a conventional tone control but instead of moving smoothly from 0 to 10 it has just four positions which Choose the aforementioned tones

if you one of those people whom rarely use their tone control -especially if you just leave it on full- and you also have/want two pickups then this circuit, I believe, is the way to go

 

[PawleeP]

Yeah that is a nice bass.What kind of wood is that? Looks like a heavily striated piece of ash actually.Is that from Czech Rep.

I don't see any

striations really. Unless the pic is maybe just too small. You can see the striations on this cypress build i did. Sorry if this is off topic.. pp

 

[ZedLepp]

Two concentric pots so that each pickup has its own vol & tone.

 

[gmarcus]

VVT for me. I like to scoop a little of the mids out of a P pickup with just a little bit of the J and adding a little heft from the P to the solo'd bridge pickup. I also like both full on. My favorite sound is a regular J with both pickups up full and the tone wide open....it just seems to always work for me.

 

[BatBasstard]

Master volume is critical to me. Every bass I've had with two volume controls is a PIA on stage. Probably from years of playing Precisions and StingRays, but I just want one volume control. A decent blend pot PROPERLY wired works well with both passive and active P/J basses in my experience. Make sure it's a blend pot, and that you have the hots of the blend and the ground connected to the correct part of each pot gang's resistance path, and that the PUPs are in phase. It'll be electronically just like a typical Jazz bass-style V/V/T, with the addition of an extra volume pot (the master) in the circuit. And that's a pretty minimal tone loss in the real world (assuming good PUPs, cables, and amps).

jte

Does anyone have a schematic of how to wire the blend pot properly (as described in the quote) in a VBT scenario please?

 

[JoseErre]

2 volume, 2 tone.

When you said (2)Vol/(2)Tone do you mean using 5 pods all together or for example instead of (2) 500K/ea using (1) 250KVol and (1)250KTon?