New MIM bass help please.

We just got a new Fender MIM P bass for the band. Beautiful guitar and sounds great, but there may be a problem. The volume pot rolls off the volume too quickly. The sound is pretty well down with a 25% turn. Our old non fender basses turn the volume down smoothly and all the way to zero. Is this the way the P bass is wired and is there a cure? It has 250k pots and a .050 cap.

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I almost never turn the volume down on a passive Fender. ya lose more than volume doing that - me ? I turn it down at the amp or at my pedal board if I'm using it.

250 K Audio Taper is the correct value by the way - Assuming that the bass is wired correctly, the cap isn't at play unless you're using the tone control.


.. and yeah - due to the audio taper, the first 25 % is a pretty large reduction ... I play J's a lot. My basic sound is set for both pickups up 100%. If I use the volumes for tonal variation - it's generaly about the distance from 10 to 8 at the max for me... otherwise the pickup I'm turning down get's buried and eventually you lose the hum cancelling thing that J's do ...

Thanks 4mal. It sounds like this bass may be working as designed.