Good morning,
I've been a lurker for a while, and thought I'd sign up to ask a bit of advice. Hope that's okay?
Long story short, I'm having a crack at building my own 5-string. I got a peavey neck, and got the body made on a CNC machine.
The body is beech, which I gather isn't a typical choice...but there was a lot of it at work and I could get it for free.
My lovely wife gifted me a 5-string hipshop bridge, and a pair of Kent Armstrong Claymore pickups.
I'm at the point where it's all together for testing, before I gut it and think about prettying it up, and I've got a couple of questions about the electronics.
I've gone for a 2 Volume, 1 tone, passive setup. Wired the pups in series (or tried to).
This is my first real soldering job, so I've probably a couple of things wrong:
1. Whilst I really like the tone of the bass when it's plugged in, I can't hear any difference (apart from a volume difference, depending on the pot position) between the two pickups. I'm wondering if it's a wiring mistake, or if I've just positioned the pickups badly. Though one is specified neck and the other bridge, so I would expect (perhaps wrongly?) a different sound from them even in the same position.
2. No matter how far I turn the volume pots down I am always getting a signal through.
I apologise for my crap soldering. I know it's probably offensive to look at
Cheers for your time,
Pete.
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