I need help with Stereo P-J wiring!

[mark Holiday]

I've got an old Fender P that I added a Jazz pickup to in the bridge position. It has the original split coil in the neck position. I've also turned it into a fretless, not that it matters.
I want to send each pickup to its own volume and tone pot and then to a stereo (TRS) output jack so each pickup can be sent to different effects/amps or inputs for recording separate tracks
What I'm looking for is a wiring diagram. I've searched the net and I'm not having much luck. Can anyone help?

 

[iiipopes]

Have you considered adapting the Rickenbacker 4003 wiring diagram off their factory web site?

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Rickenbacker provides schematics, so you'll need to learn how to read this:

http://rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19507.pdf

or just use this:

https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rick_Standard.pdf

add:

I doubt anyone would draw up a new diagram for this,
so you'll have to modify these to suit.

 

[mark Holiday]

Rickenbacker provides schematics, so you'll need to learn how to read this:

http://rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19507.pdf

or just use this:

https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rick_Standard.pdf

Close but no cigar. Thanks but what I'm looking for goes, Neck pup to T+V to Stereo out Right. Bridge pup to T+V to stereo out Left. Basically 2 separate circuits that feed into one, stereo out.

 

[JKos]

@mark Holiday ,
It seems you just described exactly what you need to do. What piece are you missing?

It's just two bog standard V/T circuits.

Thanks,
John

 

[mark Holiday]

LOL, sort of, Just which leads go to which of the 3 terminals on the pots, where do the caps go? which lead goes to the tip, the ring, and the sleeve?

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Use a Pbass diagram separately for each pickup. When you get to the output jack, both grounds to sleeve. One hot to tip, one to ring. I’d probably connect the split P pickup to tip so that, if you use a mono cable you’d still have that sound working.

 

[mark Holiday]

250 K pot for P pup and a 500 for the Jazz?

 

[Matt Liebenau]

If you want. There’s no absolute. 250K ohm tends to cut a bit more treble then 500 K ohm. If you don’t like the tone with 500K ohm volume pots, turn the volume or tone down slightly.

 

[mark Holiday]

Thanks to everyone for all the help!

 

[SteveCS]

A couple of things I would consider if it were me doing this job.
1: I would probably wire the volumes in Jazz bass style, that is to say with the pickup going to the wiper of the volume pot;
2: I would link the tone controls up to the wiper side of the volume pots;
3: I would put in a toggle or push-pull on one of the controls to link both outputs back to the tip, in the (likely) event that I wanted to go back to a more traditional setup or get access to the blended tones (hence the Jazz wiring).

 

[Matt Liebenau]

I meant to mention that and forgot. Like @SteveCS said, add a toggle or push/pull so both signals can go to tip on the output in case you’re somewhere you don’t have a cable with TRS plugs or don’t want the outputs separate. I guess I did mention the P pickup to tip but I was going to add the switch as another option and forgot. I’ll go be quiet now...

 

[mark Holiday]

Thanks for all the help. The Bass never leaves my studio, lol, neither do I! I wired it up straight stereo. It works great and does what I want it to. I can now record one track from each pickup.