Wiring question: series/parallel w/blend?

Blending in series is no easy feat, and if you could do it, it would be totally different than the parallel blend wiring.

edit: you can still always do a vol/blend/tone setup with a parallel-series switch - but you wouldn't be able to blend when in series (you'd always have both on).

 

I too am curious about the setup that RoyQBiv is describing. Below is the diagram of what I currently have in my bass. I've been kicking around some ideas about how to work the switching, but am not really having any luck. If anyone has any suggestions I'm open to hearing them. Thanks,

Steve

 

courtesy of Jazz Ad
this is what he has on his zipper bass...
so it works

 

Yes, thank you for the link.... Now to find a 3pdt switch small enough...

-Steve

 

Roy:

...and I just placed an order from Mouser about a week ago, d'oh. Anyway, thanks for the part number, looks like that should be small enough.

Thanks again,

-Steve

 

So does it matter where the ground wires from the neck and bridge pickups end up? Can I twist them together and ground them on the surface of the vol pot?

 

I'm a bit late it seems.
Well yes, that's what I have on both my basses so it definitely works fine.

 

I tried with the above diagram and couldn't get it to work, this one from stew mac I've almost got done - a little trouble with the treble control.
http://students.washington.edu/jhl8/misc/3764_2.gif


geshel, is that a sphinx moth in your avatar???

 

here it is

 

Beats me! It was on the steps outside my apartment the other night. It was pretty big, about 2.5 x 3.5 inches, so I snapped a pic. Should've put a quarte in the picture as scale wasn't clear. Anyway, I figured I'd put the picture to use and make a new avatar out of it.

 

Yep! It's a blinded sphinx moth, paonius exaecatus.

I wasn't sure how much luck I'd have finding this, but this picture looks almost exactly like mine!

 

"Blinded" with rage, I guess?

Boy, talk about a thread hijack!