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Wiring 2 pickups to 2 P bass harnesses


glassmoon
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Greetings all, 

So, I'm looking to ditch the active eq on my Yamaha, and attach 2 P bass harnesses (cheap as old chips Amazon things. 1 volume and 1 tone per pickup. 

My only issue now is that I'm an electronics noob, and although I have a mate who will do the solder work for me  I'm not 100% certain how to wire it all. I'm pretty sure it's not as cut and dried as just pairing the same coloured wires up.

Does anyone, perchance, have a wiring diagram or detailed description of how to do this? 

Many thanks in advance my low end brethren  

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So my thing is that I'm kinda done with active electronics, at least as far as on board eq goes. Also, I have replaced the stock Yamaha pickups with Bartolini G6 Vintage ones, and they absolutely sing. 

So what I want is the 2 volume, 2 tone setup. Make sense? 

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20 minutes ago, glassmoon said:

So my thing is that I'm kinda done with active electronics, at least as far as on board eq goes. Also, I have replaced the stock Yamaha pickups with Bartolini G6 Vintage ones, and they absolutely sing. 

So what I want is the 2 volume, 2 tone setup. Make sense? 

Absolute sense but having spent decent money on the pickups it doesn't make sense to out "cheap as chips" pots in.

If you want a ready built loom, speak to John, kI0gon, who will sort you out. Failing that I might have a diagram for VVTT. 

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2 hours ago, glassmoon said:

So what I want is the 2 volume, 2 tone setup. Make sense? 

Yup, I understand you want 2x Tone and 2x Volume. I'm struggling to understand why two tone knobs for each P pickup? Because both P pickups will sound very similar, so changing tone on one won't alter the overall sound any different than if you have one tone pot, controlling both pickups.

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OK, perhaps I wasn't too clear. Not 2 P pickups, but 2 Bartolini G6 Vintage units. The P bass reference comes from the V/T configuration, which I'm after for each pickup. 

The logic, flawed though it well may be, is to be able to have a very "dark" neck and "bright" bridge sound - or vise versa, or any combination thereof. 

 

The included diagram however, looks to be a possibility - no tone though, which is OK 

Jazz Bass wiring - 2 pickups, 2 volume pots, no tone pot.jpg

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3 hours ago, glassmoon said:

The logic, flawed though it well may be, is to be able to have a very "dark" neck and "bright" bridge sound - or vise versa, or any combination thereof. 

The logic is fine, in practice it makes very little difference having discrete tone controls, and you're probably better off with a Jazz Bass harness, one less thing to go wrong :)

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