Funny taper on volume pot Road Worn Jazz

[walterw]

@ don21480

What you are describing sounds to me like the behaviour of a 500kOhm pot.

You got the bass used? - maybe its worth checking the pot rating.

For me personally its a standard mod on all my passive Jazz basses to replace the 250k pots with 500k pots.

It opens up nicely the sound and gives a certain agressivnes which can esily tamed with the tone knob (250k).

I love that sound ....but yes it totally messes with the taper
....but you get used to it.

not to sound like a broken record (when's the last time any of us actually heard a broken record), but try linear 500k volumes instead of the audios that i'll bet a quarter you're using.

i'm also a big fan of 500k pots on passive pickups, as it seems to add life to the bass, and really accents the "character" of the instrument; a P really sounds like a P, and a J like a J in the mix, as opposed to just sounding like a "bass".

the thing is, the taper problem we've been talking about with audio volume pots get exaggerated with 500k audio pots. the sound really jumps at the last bit of turn.

linear 500k volumes behave perfectly evenly, though, giving you the increased "zing" without any tradeoffs.

throw in an audio 500k tone, and you've got a passive fender that will go from vintage dark to almost active bright, with knobs that all sweep evenly through their range, and all with no batteries.