I'm looking to pull the active system out of my jaguar bass because I never use it due to its artificial sound, never really been a fan of active. But I love the passive tone on the bass. If I pull the active system out though and wire it like a similar to a standard jazz - minus one volume pot will it still sound the same ?
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Removing active electronics from a Jaguar
- Thread starter Bassist13
- Start date
When the Jag is in passive mode the preamp is bypassed, and if you want to you can just remove the battery. Also if your ever interested the Nordstrand 2B preamp will drop right in, you just have to change the the stock 500k mini pots for 50k ones. Here's my Jag, I've got to know these beasties inside and out!
My Mods are:
• BEAD Tuning
• Fender CS '60s pickups
• Nordstrand 2B preamp -NEW
• Concentric Vol/Tone & Balance Pots
• Concentric Jazz style knobs
• CTS Pots & Switch's
• Copper Shielding + Star grounding
• Deluxe 5 bolt neck plate + Heel contour
• Schaller strap locks
• Hipshot Ultralite Tuners
• Unbleached Bone Nut
• Badass II Bridge
• Rolled fretboard edges
• Rotosound RS66LH strings
• Racing Stripe - NEW
• And finally used a ScotchBrite pad on
the back of the neck to take the edge
off the gloss
Pics:
Front
Back
Stacked Vol/Tone + Blend
My Mods are:
• BEAD Tuning
• Fender CS '60s pickups
• Nordstrand 2B preamp -NEW
• Concentric Vol/Tone & Balance Pots
• Concentric Jazz style knobs
• CTS Pots & Switch's
• Copper Shielding + Star grounding
• Deluxe 5 bolt neck plate + Heel contour
• Schaller strap locks
• Hipshot Ultralite Tuners
• Unbleached Bone Nut
• Badass II Bridge
• Rolled fretboard edges
• Rotosound RS66LH strings
• Racing Stripe - NEW
• And finally used a ScotchBrite pad on
the back of the neck to take the edge
off the gloss
Pics:
Front
Back
Stacked Vol/Tone + Blend
When the Jag is in passive mode the preamp is bypassed, and if you want to you can just remove the battery. Also if your ever interested the Nordstrand 2B preamp will drop right in, you just have to change the the stock 500k mini pots for 50k ones. Here's my Jag, I've got to know these beasties inside and out!
My Mods are:
BEAD Tuning
Fender CS '60s pickups
Nordstrand 2B preamp -NEW
Concentric Vol/Tone & Balance Pots
Concentric Jazz style knobs
CTS Pots & Switch's
Copper Shielding + Star grounding
Deluxe 5 bolt neck plate + Heel contour
Schaller strap locks
Hipshot Ultralite Tuners
Unbleached Bone Nut
Badass II Bridge
Rolled fretboard edges
Rotosound RS66LH strings
Racing Stripe - NEW
And finally used a ScotchBrite pad on
the back of the neck to take the edge
off the gloss
Pics:
Front
Back
Stacked Vol/Tone + Blend
What's that bit of metal running from the bridge pickup to the bridge?
- Jun 25, 2007
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- Artist:TC Electronic RH450 bass system (original test-pilot)
thats a killer look jag, but I'm looking to remove it for visual reasons as well. Since I don't use the active I want to take it all out and then have a custom scratch plate made up so that it looks as if it was never there. I'm actually currently in the process of pulling it out but because of my lack of experience and excitement I have now removed it and cannot get any sound out of the bass. :S
The wiring as of right now goes from pickups to the switches and I have one lead from the output jack that I'm not sure where to connect to to get the sound to come back
