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Thinking of going from Active to passive...

Sundogue

Sundogue

Apr 26, 2001
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#1
I installed two Seymour Duncan NYC Passive Phase II pickups in my bass and wired them up to two switches (Series/Single Coil/Parallel) and they run to my bass's preamp. But I'm thinking of going passive because with the switches I can get a wide variety of tones without having the EQ of the preamp. Currently I have one volume and one blend (along with the 3 band EQ).

Not sure what I want to do...Two stacked Volume/Tone controls? Volume/Volume/Tone? I'm kind of leaning to the stacked simply because I can alter the tone of each pickup separately. I found some stacked tone knobs, but noticed there are no caps on the tone control part of it.

Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions and/or preferences?
 
#2
Yes, you can remove the preamp and its controls and wire the pickups in V-V-T-T, or any other configuration as you have the space for controls. You will need to purchase all new controls and tone capacitors.
 
#4
Yeah I know the current pots are no good for passive. Just curious about options.

I have space for 5 control knobs (which is what is on there now...Vol/Blend/3 band EQ), although anything less than that will require a dummy control knob to cover the hole of what isn't used...which is no big deal.
 

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