Baloney Balderdash Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) I got a bass with a single P pickup wired directly to the output jack socket, but if I was to experiment with emulating the slight roll of high end and shift in the pickup's resonance point that a regular full on volume + tone pot configuration gives, say adding a 500kOhm pot, so the resistance can be adjusted to the effect that everything from a full on 250kOhm V+T to 1mOhm V+T would normally have on the tone, where would I add it? Something tells me just across the hot and ground wire of the pickup, but then wouldn't that just make it act like a regular volume control? How do I go about adding such an adjustable resistance, and also what kind of taper would I likely want it to be? Edited June 24, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigguy2017 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 You could wire the pots as variable resistors across the output. The volume pot would then give; from 250K load (like standard vol pot) to 1M25 load - could use a zero load pot here The tone pot would give; from standard tone at 100% to basically nothing - could use a zero load pot here too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 What are you trying to do? 1. Emulate the sound of having no volume or tone controls when the V&T pots are on full? or, 2. Emulate the sound of having the volume and tone controls on full but with no actual controls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted June 26, 2023 Author Share Posted June 26, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, BigRedX said: What are you trying to do? 1. Emulate the sound of having no volume or tone controls when the V&T pots are on full? or, 2. Emulate the sound of having the volume and tone controls on full but with no actual controls? 2 (but with the resistance still being adjustable and with the option for still bypassing it) And yes, I do realize the differences will be quite subtle, and that no one cares, but I do. Edited June 26, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 Unless you want a single switch option of having the sound of the V&T controls on full (from whatever position they are currently in) you can achieve this simply by having normal volume and tone controls and a switch that takes them completely out of the circuit and connects the "hot" lead from the pickup directly to the output jack. For this I'd use a DP switch and disconnect the V&T controls at both ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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