Push / Pull pot too high. Dremel the best answer?

I drew this up quick at work today when I was playing hooky. If it's not legible, I'll make a copy in Illustrator, but that will take a little time.



So I'm not sure what kind of switch is in the Ric. It's a weird looking switch, and I never had the time or desire to really examine it. I have to imagine it's a DPDT. The above version can use a single pole, double throw switch, but yeah, you'd have to totally disconnect the existing switch in there (and maybe even replace it). Basically what the above schematic will do, is switch one of the pickups from the "other" output on the stereo jack, to the tip of the jack, after the tone and volume controls.

This would be totally reversible, and would need no mods to the bass itself.

 

Neal, I can help with this when you come out on Sat. Check your PMs

 

I haven't read through this thread past the point where Neal says he always runs the bass in ROS, so the switch is unused anyway. If this is so, wouldn't it be better to just put in a harness that is ROS only, with no switch at all? If the concern is for a future owner of the bass, then just include the original harness with the bass when it gets sold, or passed on by Neal's kids (assuming he has any), unless they just toss it in the trash as old junk?

 

Hey, you stole the drawing I made months ago! :***: I was considering making a harness for my 4004L SPC to do just that, switch from mono to ROS. I may still do such once I (someday) get another Tone Hammer 500 so I can have matching amp rigs to go ROS. I don't even need a ROS box or splitter cable as the Strymon Flint I have can act as a ROS box when I run the TRS input as stereo by moving a jumper inside it.

 

Neal...I'll send you a wiring diagram with the pots, which unlike the originals with their "guess-what-spec-these-pots-are K OHMS" will be within 5% of rated spec! Incidentally, not all stereo output jack setups are Rick-O-Sound. Neal will be able to keep the output jack assembly I built with the Switchcraft stereo jack, which unlike the problematic mono switching jack that RIC uses, with not bind up in the channel it fits into, or short out over time.

 

You can always use an outboard A/Both/B box for Ric-O-Sound on stage or in the studio if you want to go with the either/mono/or signal chain, and for gigging or jamming mono you can replace the plug of a regular guitar cord with a stereo plug and jumper the tip and ring lugs for mono output to an amplifier or single channel DI box.