Ok here is my story. I bought a used L-2500 Korean made tribute last month. I have been working on getting it set up to my liking. I put new strings on it, DR blue riders, and I have been pretty luke warm on them. Too much fret buzz and sympathetic tones. So I am going to switch out to Chromes. I like flats and higher tension.
But the big problem I am having is this:
Last night I attempted to do the K-Mod, because I like the clarity of single coil PU an d thought the mod looked relatively east. I used this http://www.bassesbyleo.com/paul/k_wiring/l2000k.pdf as my guide because my PU have 5 wires coming off each. White, Yellow, Green, and 2 black wires. Can't tell the difference between the black and blue. There is also this K-Mod schematic:
But this one only has 4 wire from each PU. What is the difference?
So anyway, I forgot how difficult soldering small wires was, but I got it done. It worked afterward EXCEPT for the neck PU the tone doesn't seem to change when the flip through series/SC/parallel. So I took a paperclip and tapped the inside and outside coils of each PU as I flipped through the toggle switch and the inside coil on the neck made a sound but pretty weak. The bridge mod worked, Nice and load click on both coils in Series and Parallel and outside only in Single Coil. So could I have wired this wrong? Or is it possible that one of the coils is weak or dead? How do you test this (ohm meter)? there are so many wires in this thing it is like a multi-colored bowl of spaghetti. Also my PU selector toggle in wired differently than the attached diagram. the lead from the neck PU (Yellow) is wired to down side of the PU selector toggle.
Any and all help would be appreciated. I want to like this bass but so far I am on the fence.
But the big problem I am having is this:
Last night I attempted to do the K-Mod, because I like the clarity of single coil PU an d thought the mod looked relatively east. I used this http://www.bassesbyleo.com/paul/k_wiring/l2000k.pdf as my guide because my PU have 5 wires coming off each. White, Yellow, Green, and 2 black wires. Can't tell the difference between the black and blue. There is also this K-Mod schematic:
But this one only has 4 wire from each PU. What is the difference?
So anyway, I forgot how difficult soldering small wires was, but I got it done. It worked afterward EXCEPT for the neck PU the tone doesn't seem to change when the flip through series/SC/parallel. So I took a paperclip and tapped the inside and outside coils of each PU as I flipped through the toggle switch and the inside coil on the neck made a sound but pretty weak. The bridge mod worked, Nice and load click on both coils in Series and Parallel and outside only in Single Coil. So could I have wired this wrong? Or is it possible that one of the coils is weak or dead? How do you test this (ohm meter)? there are so many wires in this thing it is like a multi-colored bowl of spaghetti. Also my PU selector toggle in wired differently than the attached diagram. the lead from the neck PU (Yellow) is wired to down side of the PU selector toggle.
Any and all help would be appreciated. I want to like this bass but so far I am on the fence.
