BiteTheBoxer

Sadly, no other guitarist in the band. It's just bass, keys, electric drums and sax. I only have 2 basses and they are both the same (same pickup, same wiring). If anyone is anywhere near Sturminster Newton in Dorset and fancies coming along to help troubleshoot, it would be appreciated.

Yeah, good continuity between pole pieces and bridge and ground. I went to the venue last night to test again and rewiring to parallel has reduced the noise a lot but it is still there a little. I think I'm just gonna have to get a noise gate for between songs and put up with the tiny amount of residual noise when playing. Also, hope that I don't have the problem anywhere else (but as this is the first venue I've encountered this issue after years of playing, I'm willing to take that risk).

Unless of course it's a stingray, then it's supposed to be wired in parallel. Side note, I actually prefered the tone I had when it was wired in series. Yeah, perfectly behaved elsewhere.

Hi all. I have a squier jaguar bass (the one with the single humbucker pickup, which I replaced for a Seymour Duncan SMB-4d) and have been happily gigging with it most weeks for the last year or so without any issues. Then a few weeks ago I was asked to step into the band for a community panto being held at the local arts centre/theatre. On this first rehearsal we were in one of the downstairs dance studio rooms but I could hear everything that was being put through the PA system in the main theatre room coming through my amp. Really strange, I thought, so tried different cables, different wall sockets, took my pedalboard out of the chain and nothing stopped the noise coming through. The only thing that would change it was unplugging my bass from the amp or rolling the volume on the bass all the way down. I took the bass home, resoldered some of the wiring and put a load of shielding in the cavities. Went back to the venue the following week and was still having the problem. This time I even tried plugging bass directly into a spare PA speaker and still the noise. ...and here's the question...I got home and realised that the pickup had been wired in series, rather than parallel. Am I right in thinking that when it's wired to series it no longer acts as a humbucker? Do we think that this might solve the issue? Any other suggestions welcome. Thanks

I'm gutted that I have only just seen this. My own fault for not being active on BC enough. I'm only down the road from there in Shaftesbury. Looks like it was a great event.

I've been using my Katana Bass 210 for a while now (I think I got it within a couple weeks of them being released). I can really only echo the same thing that's been said many times already... it is great to have everything in one package/combo, even if it is a rather heavy package. The effects work, and serve a purpose, but I wasn't convinced enough by them to ditch my stompboxes. I can get a great tone from it (I tend to favour a bright sound like Tim Commerford) and it is more than comfortable playing any style that I throw at it. My only gripe with the Katana bass is that the outputs all seem to clip and sound terrible. I've tried going out of the DI out, headphones and even the USB and just can't get it to sound good. Which is a shame because it sounds beautiful coming out of the speakers. As a test, I played through an ampeg preamp pedal plugged into the 'power amp in' socket (which disables the on-board preamp and processing) and all the outputs work fine and sound as they should. Has anyone else experienced this?

Slightly better photo

I got the control plate off for the first time and it there was a bucket load of sawdust floating around in there (probably why the pots were a little scratchy). We have a trio of 500k pots, the volume is b500k and the tones are a500k. I still can't figure out why it's done like this. Can anyone make head and tail of it?

Living in Shaftesbury but work in Bournemouth.

Hey @Jackopie1 - how did it turn out in the end? Nice to see a fellow West-Country chap in here. I just picked up a cheap Vintage (JHS) MM/Stingray, it was in terrible condition and needed a good clean but once I scraped all the crud off of it, it actually sounds fairly decent. It's a passive, three knob model. I don't know much about the MM wiring but this one seems a little odd...first of all I should say its a single Humbucker (nothing unusual there). But, it's got one volume pot and what seems to be two tone pots. from what I can tell usually it would be one volume, one bass and one treble. Is it possible that it is using a standard tone pot for each coil?? any help appreciated.

Hi everyone, my name is Matt and I make atmospheric, post-rock, dark moody music as Bite The Boxer (on all the usual streaming platforms) but also jump into covers bands now and then just to make a little bit of pocket money. I have a Jaguar bass and an EUB, my main amp is a Boss Katana Bass 210 (which I love). I also have a baritone guitar and some other 6 string things. Always happy to have a chat.