Will this pickup wiring work?

[Isaac J]

Hi all at TalkBass
I'm currently in the middle of a rebuild of a PJ bass to custom spec, and It's currently wired to 2x volume, master tone and output jack on the top (like the modern jazz basses). Whether I'm going over the top in making it unique or it's a genuinely good idea, I've sketched a way of wiring 2x volume and 2x tone, and was hoping to find out the following...
a) does it even work?
b) any Fenders (or Leo Fender designs) that have used 2V 2T in the past

The wires pointing down from the pots are shield, bridge ground, bridge pup and neck pup. It's been drawn as if looking at the casings of the pot

Many thanks all,
Isaac

 

[Growlmonkee]

Fender had V/T/V/T on early Jazz basses, but, because a tone pot simply cuts some treble, there is only one now on Jazz basses. It looks like a TRS jack in your drawing, if it is, it won't work, unless you use a TRS cable to a Y cable to 2 amps. If you run both hot wires to the output jack tip, both tone pots will be in the circuit, and that isn't useful, in that it really squashes tone, (no clarity). it does work better with a 3 way pickup selector switch, unless you switch it to both pickups, you get the tone squash. YMMV. Welcome to TB Isaac, maybe someone will chime in that's had better success with trying 2 tones, I only experimented with it once, it didn't work for me.

 

[fjadams]

In my new build I'm using 2 concentric pots V/T on each one and a Varitone at the front end. It was made by kellingsound on eBay. He has many people on here that are enthusiastic about his work.

kellingsound | eBay

Another option would be to use one of the StellarTone Bass Duo 6 tone pots. Gives different tone signal to the neck & bridge pickup from the same pot. I have these in a few of my basses and they work exactly as advertised. I prefer to use a V/B/StellarTone over the V/V/StellarTone but that's just personal preference and both systems work perfectly well.

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[Isaac J]

Fender had V/T/V/T on early Jazz basses, but, because a tone pot simply cuts some treble, there is only one now on Jazz basses. It looks like a TRS jack in your drawing, if it is, it won't work, unless you use a TRS cable to a Y cable to 2 amps. If you run both hot wires to the output jack tip, both tone pots will be in the circuit, and that isn't useful, in that it really squashes tone, (no clarity). it does work better with a 3 way pickup selector switch, unless you switch it to both pickups, you get the tone squash. YMMV. Welcome to TB Isaac, maybe someone will chime in that's had better success with trying 2 tones, I only experimented with it once, it didn't work for me.

Awesome, thanks for letting me know! I think I'll stick with the modern jazz layout. Really helpful, much appreciated!

 

[Isaac J]

In my new build I'm using 2 concentric pots V/T on each one and a Varitone at the front end. It was made by kellingsound on eBay. He has many people on here that are enthusiastic about his work.

kellingsound | eBay

Another option would be to use one of the StellarTone Bass Duo 6 tone pots. Gives different tone signal to the neck & bridge pickup from the same pot. I have these in a few of my basses and they work exactly as advertised. I prefer to use a V/B/StellarTone over the V/V/StellarTone but that's just personal preference and both systems work perfectly well.

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I did consider using the concentric pots, but as it's a bespoke control plate, there'd be too much wasted space. I appreciate the help & would love to see how your build's coming along!