Tone pot removal or 2 pickups into one tone pot

[DaleASmith]

I never use the tone pot. its just always on full. 

I never blend my pickups. They're both on full all the time.

 

So, can I just take my current setup ( CV Jag bass with 2 stacked tone / volume pots ) and just have both pickups wired to a single stacked tone / volume pot?

 

Or, even better, just a volume. ( I realise that might be problematic as the tone pot does filter even when on full )

 

Any thoughts?

[Doctor J]

If the bass already does everything you need as is, why mutilate it?

[Lfalex v1.1]

If you run everything fully open all the time,  why not take the lot out? No vol, no tone?

[neepheid]

You haven't really explained why you want to do this.  Is there a better reason other than "I never use them"?  I am also a tone all the way up kind of player, but I'm not modding all my basses to get rid of the tone pots...

[itu]

It's easy to leave them there but under the hood everything is overridden/bypassed. Another way is to remove and save current electronics and install a new set. Like Vol.

[DaleASmith]

Hi. Thanks for the replies..

 

Reasoning.. firstly, I want to install a "kill switch" as i often use this on another bass I have.  I realise I could do this with my current set up, but removing a tone/vol pot would free up space. A single volume pot would give me the option to bring volume up and down in a live situation ( think effects wise, not just for stage level ) which cant be done with a pair of volume pots.

 

I could get a foot volume pedal, but I would still like a kill switch so thought this might be a viable option.

 

[Badscrew]

I always wire my jazz basses with two pickups going to the same volume pot. I keep the tone though. This makes one pot doing nothing

[PaulThePlug]

I've an Epihone Les Paul thing...

The Tone pot has a non latching 'push' kill switch... for the stutter type effect. Use one as the Vol pot?

I think you can also get push on push off latching (rather than push / pull) if you want an OFF switch

Edited July 9, 2022 by PaulThePlug

[NancyJohnson]

Similar in principal, I have an old Ibanez (for sale folks) and just wired the P/J pickups into a pickup selector switch, into a volume pot. then to the output jack.  I tend to just leave the selector in the centre position so both pickups are active.  No issues.

 

As to why?  Much like the OP, I tend to play passive kit with everything open and here I really couldn't be bothered wiring in tone pots.

[DaleASmith]

Done..

 

 

[shoulderpet]

On 18/07/2022 at 15:08, DaleASmith said:

Done..

 

 

What did you go with in the end, 2 volumes or 1 volume 1 tone?

[Badscrew]

Maybe 2 tones

[DaleASmith]

On 22/07/2022 at 08:45, shoulderpet said:

What did you go with in the end, 2 volumes or 1 volume 1 tone?

1 volume, 1 tone.  👍

[borntohang]

Nice! I took the second volume out of mine and went Vol/Tone and On/Off for the bridge pickup as I never used it solo. Made switching a lot easier, but yours looks slick with the custom plate.

[shoulderpet]

when I had my shortscale Jaguar bass I replaced the control plate with a 2 hole mustang control plate and went with 2 volumes, I never use tone controls on basses they are always on full, I recently had a Kiogon harness made for a P bass with the tone control replaced with a bass rolloff, much more useful to me