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Ways of aranging a control curcuit.

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nipplepie

Dec 8, 2009
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#1
I've looked at two diagrams of bass precision pickups connected to 2 different curcuits of Volume, Tone and the input Jack.
What's the best way to connect one up?
Or which variation gives what sound?
Im not askin about the pick ups, I just want to know how to arange my Volume and Tone controls.

Please provide a diagram (Simple as on Paint will help me a lot)
 
#2
Why don't you post the two diagrams you saw.

I'm guessing that you probably just saw two versions of the same wiring.
For example, on one, the capacitor connected to the center terminal of the tone pot, and on the other, it connected to the third terminal instead, with the signal on the center terminal.

Or maybe the capacitor was grounded to the back of the tone pot on one, and the third terminal of the volume pot on the other.
 
#5
Yeah sorry forgot to post the diagrams.
Im experimenting with my 1st ever starter bass and this is the diagram for the new pickups I got for it.
asd-1.jpg

But the curcuit on my control plate I have is this.
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I tried re sketchin it to see if they are indeed the same curcuit but they are not.
Should I rearange my cicruit to the on on the pickup diagram? Or what other options are there? Does the ciruit matter in terms of sound, frequencies, tone...im a noob.
 
#6
nipplepie said:
Yeah sorry forgot to post the diagrams.
Im experimenting with my 1st ever starter bass and this is the diagram for the new pickups I got for it.
asd-1.jpg

But the curcuit on my control plate I have is this.
dsad.jpg

I tried re sketchin it to see if they are indeed the same curcuit but they are not.
Should I rearange my cicruit to the on on the pickup diagram? Or what other options are there? Does the ciruit matter in terms of sound, frequencies, tone...im a noob.
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That sketch makes absolutely no sense.
Just wire it the way the Seymour Duncan diagram shows. That is the traditional way to wire a Precision bass.
 
#8
nipplepie said:
Yeah that's what I was thinking to do.
But still one question is unanswered.
Do different wiring circuits effect the sound?
Or is there really just 1 and im a bit stupid.
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What is the other method of wiring that you are comparing to?

There are pretty much only two things that you could do with P bass wiring:

You could switch terminals one and two of the volume pot, as it's done on a Jazz bass, but then the volume control wouldn't roll off as smoothly and give you a lot more high end loss, as the load would be varied against the pickup rather than the output.

Or, the other thing would be to place the tone control after the volume. This would mean that the volume control comes before the tone control rather than after.
 

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