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Question regarding S/P switching

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bergy9650

Jan 4, 2010
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#1
Right now my main bass is a black top jazz bass, which I love, but I'm still trying to find the tone that works the best. So, I had an idea that I'd like to share/get feed back/get help for.

I was thinking about adding series parellel switching to it and wiring it so that between the neck pup and the bridge pup there is a volume pot that could control how much neck pup is coming through. That way I could get more balls from the neck pup without over powering the bridge pup.

Any feed back is welcome!
 
#3
It should be doable with a push/pull... least it worked for me.

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#5
I did it on a friend's Jazz clone as I don't own one. I liked both the series and the standard parallel mode - the series is noticeably punchier and louder! One of the caveats of this wiring was that, in series, the volume controls were very touchy and moving the volume up a bit would insert a lot of that pickup into the sound, but you learn to deal with it.
 
#7
I've hard-wired one of my basses to be permanently in series wiring. If I want more of one pickup I bust out the screwdriver and lower the other pickup to reduce it in the mix. I just wired the earth of one pickup to the hot wire from the other so I still have only one hot and earth wire to attach to the master volume control. I'm not sure exactly how volume controls in series would work as you are only selecting how much of one pickup is then being shunted to the next pickup in the series circuit. It sounds neat but I'm not sure what it would do musically.
 

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