Probly a stupid question

[Kenan]

Since you want a dark tone, but don't want any knobs visible, you might consider having a capacitor hard wired into the circuit. That would be like having a tone knob rolled off all of the time. Without a knob.

 

[definenredefine]

I put an old maxon "humbucker" pickup in a p-bass, wired to the volume pot then the jack. That bass went to a friend who's characterized the tone as "woody." Those can be a challenge to find and sometimes they're kinda pricey...but I would guess an Artec humbucker would be very similary in character. Artec Mini Humbucker Violin Bass Neck Pickup Chrome

 

[Major Seven]

I decided many years ago that;
1) No question is stupid.
2) All questions are stupid.

I agree about the Jack Casady.

 

[mpdd]

Maybe wait about a month until the squier paranormal precision comes out?

 

[Mickey666]

Maybe wait about a month until the squier paranormal precision comes out?

Another P is exactly what I'm not after...

 

[mpdd]

Another P is exactly what I'm not after...

even if it's parnormal and from the ghost dimension?

 

[Prodigus Filius]

Since you want a dark tone, but don't want any knobs visible, you might consider having a capacitor hard wired into the circuit. That would be like having a tone knob rolled off all of the time. Without a knob.

What I do is replace the vol and tone pots with resistors of the same value e.g if vol and tone pots are 250k than I use 250k resistors or close enough. One leg of the second resistor is connected to one leg of the other resistor. A cap is connected to the other leg of the resistor and that is connected to the second leg of the first resistor. So now you have two legs to connect to hot and ground. Doesn't matter where in the path. What you end up with is the same as having the vol knob at 10 and the tone knob at 0. My preference is for a .068uf cap. I can't recall where I came across this on TB. A good approach for us no knobbers

 

[Mickey666]

What I do is replace the vol and tone pots with resistors of the same value e.g if vol and tone pots are 250k than I use 250k resistors or close enough. One leg of the second resistor is connected to one leg of the other resistor. A cap is connected to the other leg of the resistor and that is connected to the second leg of the first resistor. So now you have two legs to connect to hot and ground. Doesn't matter where in the path. What you end up with is the same as having the vol knob at 10 and the tone knob at 0. My preference is for a .068uf cap. I can't recall where I came across this on TB. A good approach for us no knobbersView attachment 7529572

Great info... I would have never thought about that

 

[Prodigus Filius]

I think this is the thread that I read about simulating vol and tone pots when wiring a straight to output

Post in thread 'How to simulate having volume controls?'

Jul 4, 2011

Recnsci beat me to it.

Two 250k volumes in parallel is 125k, so use a resistor around that value.
Then a tone pot is 250k in series with a 0.047uF cap.

Here is a diagram I have on hand of the setup, but don't mind the 250k resistor value, this was drawn up for a P bass player.

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