Re: rewire my jazz bass

"Mike Rieves" <mriev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"jeffb" <jeffbonny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mike Rieves wrote:

The volume-volume-tone is much more versatile than a volume-pan-tone,
because

And two stacked V/T pots are even more versatile but the guy wants to
wire
it the way he asked. Maybe this is gonna work great for him, maybe not.
He
sure as *** won't know if he doesn't try.

You're right, he won't know until he tries, but one has to wonder why the
VVT arrangement became the norm in the first place. I wired one of my
guitars so that I could have either pickup in series, parallel, or split
configuration, and both pickups in or out of phase, and both pickups in
series or parallel, but I had trouble remembering which switch was which.
There was the pickup selector switch, the neck series/split/parallel
switch,
the bridge series/split/parallel switch, the pickups in/out of phase
switch,
and the pickups series/parallel switch. The problem was that there were
too
many combinations and I found myself spending too much time going through
them to find just the right combination for each song. :-)

Check this out:

http://www.guitargearcentral.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=114

3 pickups, 23 distinct tonal combinations. Six switches. I've got 2
guitars wired this way; I suppose I'm technically inclined to begin with and
use the guitars often, so it doesn't throw me off. All the combinations
seem to be wired into my head :-)


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