Help on custom bass wiring (3 x pickups)
Posted: 06 Jan 2019, 21:59
Dear all, I'm designing a custom bass wiring and it would be great if you could give your feedback & comments. This was asked from a friend of mine who needs many tonal possibilities from his instrument, here are his requests:
My main doubts are:
Thanks in advance!
- 3 x passive pickups: 1 x neck + 2 x bridge
- Possibility to combine the bridge pickups in series (with 1 x volume) or in parallel (with separate volumes for each pickup)
- Possibility to mix neck&bridge: neck only, bridge combination only (see item 2), neck + bridge combination
- Finally (phew...) master tone & master volume
My main doubts are:
- When neck + bridge combination is selected (ON/ON/ON switch in the middle position, neck goes in parallel to the combined bridges. Each bridge PU goes through a 250k pot, while the neck PU signal goes "straight" with no additional load. Do you think that this could "kill" the bridge pickup signal (e.g. neck PU with much more volume than bridges)?
- Before reaching the bass jack, signal is going through 4 x 250k pots. Is this OK in your opinion? Or maybe it is better to redesign the master tone & volume using different resistance values?
Thanks in advance!