EMG BQC Control

[GreeneKing]

Does anyone have experience of the EMG BQC control (not the BQC System)? 

 

I have a lovely USA G&L L2500 and I miss having real +/- EQ and mid control. The bass itself is superb. A later Plek'd model with the CLF headstock. It's a dream to play. The passive treble cut does very little.

 

The BQC Control has two concentric controls, one for bass/treble and one for mids with a sweepable frequency. 

 

Any mods I make need to be reversible and I'd like to retain use of the 3 way pickup selector and the series/parallel switch.

 

I've spoken to the lovely man that is John East and a Uni pre would do the job but I don't think he can make me a single input version plus it needs to be plate mounted.

 

I don't think that the BQC Control includes a Volume control. Am I correct in this and if so what volume control should I use?

 

The perfect setup for this bass would include an active/passive switch and a passive tone control under the volume knob.

 

Any thoughts or ideas?

 

I have emailed EMG.

 

Peter

[neepheid]

I had a BQC control in my Epiphone Les Paul.  BQC control is just a preamp, it will accept whatever you feed it, so you do all the trickery you require (volume, passive tone, pickup selection, coil selection) first in whichever way you see fit, then feed the results of that to the BQC instead of it going to the output jack.

 

In the case of the Epi LP, it was a pair of EMG-HB pickups, going to plain 25K pots (EMGs need that low value), then onto the usual Les Paul pickup selector switch, then the output of that fed to the BQC.

[neepheid]

I should point out that my BQC was before all this solderless stuff.  Honestly I don't know how you do it these days - surely you don't have to hack one end off the cables if you're not hooking it up to EMG stuff?

[GreeneKing]

17 minutes ago, neepheid said:

I had a BQC control in my Epiphone Les Paul.  BQC control is just a preamp, it will accept whatever you feed it, so you do all the trickery you require (volume, passive tone, pickup selection, coil selection) first in whichever way you see fit, then feed the results of that to the BQC instead of it going to the output jack.

 

In the case of the Epi LP, it was a pair of EMG-HB pickups, going to plain 25K pots (EMGs need that low value), then onto the usual Les Paul pickup selector switch, then the output of that fed to the BQC.

Thank you Matt. I did wonder if the original volume could be used. That helps a lot.

 

Peter