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Jazz Bass rewiring


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I want to rewire my Jazz copy so that the neck pickup volume control becomes a master volume control, the bridge pickup control becomes a blend between the two pickups and the tone control remains a tone control.

For a soldering / bass wiring novice is this a relatively do-able exercise, or am I asking for trouble and better off entrusting the task to someone who actually knows what they're doing?

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It's not complicated, but the tricky part is finding a dual gang pot with a centre-detent, so that you'll feel when the balance control is at 50/50.

Blade used t make their basses like this and it made a lot of sense.

If you use a series/parallel switch it will alter the sound of the bass, but in series mode you won't be able to alter the blend of the pickups - they're on equal output all of the time.

Better call Ki0gon

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Not to hijack the thread, but I would like to broaden the question. I have a bass with dual J pickups. In 35 years of playing I have not used either pickup individually so it makes sense for me to go for one volume and be done with it. However in the back of my mind I recall that jazz pickups like to be loaded individually by individual pots. If they are loaded differently they still work but sound different. Am I talking garbage here? It would not be the first time.

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[quote name='owen' timestamp='1499023275' post='3328681']
Not to hijack the thread, but I would like to broaden the question. I have a bass with dual J pickups. In 35 years of playing I have not used either pickup individually so it makes sense for me to go for one volume and be done with it. However in the back of my mind I recall that jazz pickups like to be loaded individually by individual pots. If they are loaded differently they still work but sound different. Am I talking garbage here? It would not be the first time.
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Why not wire them together to one pot - series or parallel;whichever you like?

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  • 7 months later...
On 02/07/2017 at 20:21, owen said:

Not to hijack the thread, but I would like to broaden the question. I have a bass with dual J pickups. In 35 years of playing I have not used either pickup individually so it makes sense for me to go for one volume and be done with it. However in the back of my mind I recall that jazz pickups like to be loaded individually by individual pots. If they are loaded differently they still work but sound different. Am I talking garbage here? It would not be the first time.

Did you ever get round to doing this, was it successful? I’m thinking about doing something similar to one of my Js.

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