Jazz bass "strat type" toggle switch

[mentalextra]

Just been watching a Tony Franklin video showin his p bass special. He fitted a "strat type" toggle switch for pup switching. Has anyone fitted one to a passive jazz and would it be worth it? Sound like a good idea, and quicking than turning the pups up and down. Or am I missing something obvious

[bertbass]

I've got a 3 position L/P type on mine, works great.

[mentalextra]

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1353518043' post='1875543']
I've got a 3 position L/P type on mine, works great.
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How did you wire it?

[LukeFRC]

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1353518697' post='1875550']
How did you wire it?
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my guess is one pup to one side, the other to the other and the centre into the volume!

[KiOgon]

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1353520786' post='1875584']
my guess is one pup to one side, the other to the other and the centre into the volume!
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Exactly

[iiipopes]

If it's wired conventionally, being a two-pickup instrument, it would be wired more like a Tele than a Strat.

[bertbass]

What they said. One p/u to each side then it's either p/u or both.

[brensabre79]

I have a 5 position rotary on my main Jazz (in place of the second vol. control) the 'in-between' positions have a pre-set variable resistor in to turn down one of the pickups. After setting the blends where I want them, now I can recall the sound exactly every time!

[BigRedX]

According to the Fender web site the switch on the Tony Franklin bass is just a 3-position giving each pickup on its own and both together in the centre position..

I have a bass with 2 J-type pickups and 4-way rotary switch to give each pickup on its own and both pickups together wired either in parallel or series.

[Lfalex v1.1]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1353595040' post='1876396']
I have a bass with 2 J-type pickups and 4-way rotary switch to give each pickup on its own and both pickups together wired either in parallel or series.
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That's quite a nice idea, as long as you don't want to blend the pick-ups. Hopefully the series setting is buffered in some way to stop the output being too much higher than the parallel or single coil settings.(The EBMM Ray 5 has this, as well as a phantom coil to suppress hum in single coil mode)

[iiipopes]

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1353593866' post='1876389']
I have a 5 position rotary on my main Jazz (in place of the second vol. control) the 'in-between' positions have a pre-set variable resistor in to turn down one of the pickups. After setting the blends where I want them, now I can recall the sound exactly every time![/quote]

I like that idea! I did the same thing on the neck pickup of a couple of guitars to get them to balance with a master volume, and Rickenbacker guitars have the famous 5th knob for the same thing as well. Good show!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1353595040' post='1876396']
According to the Fender web site the switch on the Tony Franklin bass is just a 3-position giving each pickup on its own and both together in the centre position.[/quote]

As I suspected: Tele wiring.

Edited November 22, 2012 by iiipopes

[brensabre79]

[quote name='iiipopes' timestamp='1353601760' post='1876483']
I like that idea! I did the same thing on the neck pickup of a couple of guitars to get them to balance with a master volume, and Rickenbacker guitars have the famous 5th knob for the same thing as well. Good show!
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Yes it works very well on a gig, no messing about plucking notes to check I've got the balance right, just click and go
I also have an S-1 switch on the volume control that puts both pickups in series, just in case I need that extra boost!

[EssentialTension]

When I had a Tony Franklin Precision, the one thing about it I would have liked to have changed was get rid of the switch and replace it with VVT.

[brensabre79]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1353603319' post='1876514']
When I had a Tony Franklin Precision, the one thing about it I would have liked to have changed was get rid of the switch and replace it with VVT.
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haha I guess its horses for courses, or in this case decisions for Precisions

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1353675432' post='1877251']
haha I guess its horses for courses, or in this case decisions for Precisions
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Exactly.