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Okay, wiring question...two volumes and two tones.

jimmykicker

jimmykicker

Apr 13, 2010
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McCalla, AL
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Ok guys. I have a bass I am wanting to do an unusual wiring job to. It's a Squier neck with a homemade body. Originally had a Pro Tone neck on it that was broken somehow (story I got anyway) and I decided to slap the special neck on it since they are the same dimensionally and the Special body got put away because of the just awful pickups that it had in it (not standard sizes either).

Anyway, point is....It currently has one volume and one tone on it. It has a music man single in the sweet spot. I wired it up with a single Fender concentric pot that is like the ones used on the 62 American Jazz which is a bass with two concentric knobs (odd sized too) which I am gonna assume is two volumes and two tones? The plan is to route it for a 52 Tele bass plate so I can add an extra control since my plan is to split the coils on this MM pickup. Could I wire it that way and have good results? In other words, one volume and one tone on the front coil (concentric pot) and the other coil with its own vol/tone on a secondary concentric pot? Think that would be kinda different. Just wondering what (if any) hurdles I will encounter in that setup.
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Killed_by_Death said:
Since the coils are side-by-side, you won't really accomplish much by blending them & two treble cut (tones) controls will just be summed.
I'd recommend drilling a hole for a DPDT switch that you use for parallel/series switching, and you won't need to buy a control plate.
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Any link youd recommend to such diagram? I'm gonna have to hack on it either way unfortunately. There is only a cavity on the back big enough for that pot. I don't think I could get a switch in there too.
 
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https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1H_1VppSP_1T.pdf

Your other option is to forgo volume or treble cut & just install a push/pull pot.

If you don't use the volume or treble cut much, consider losing one of them.

Installing a control plate would still mean routing out an area under it.

Does your pickup have Seymour Duncan printed on the bottom right?
If so, you can use the colors in the drawing.
 
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Killed_by_Death said:
https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1H_1VppSP_1T.pdf

Your other option is to forgo volume or treble cut & just install a push/pull pot.

If you don't use the volume or treble cut much, consider losing one of them.

Installing a control plate would still mean routing out an area under it.

Does your pickup have Seymour Duncan printed on the bottom right?
If so, you can use the colors in the drawing.
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Yeah. It's a basslines SD. Thank you. I will look at that! I'm actually ok with routing the front for the plate. It's already odd so a tele control plate makes it even weirder (this is a good thing). I'm planning on doing mods when I retire in 18 years and so I am experimenting and doing some light work for others. So this will be a challenge for me.
 
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That is good information. It's actually a 500/250k. The outside knob is volume and the inside knob is tone....I didn't know how to determine what it was till now. I "think" the tone is the 250. Either way I dig how it sounds right now so I'll probably stick with that. So that brighter response is affected by both the pots? In that I mean the 500k volume pot has an effect on the tone as well as the tone pot itself? I've always been confused by that...
 

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