Rich_S
June 8th, 2012, 11:48 PM
After repairing the wonky input jacks on my kid's bass amp tonight, I noticed the volume pot on his CV P-Bass was scratchy. I coulda sworn I had replaced all the electronics in this bass, but discovered when I opened it up that I had only replaced the jack... it still has the original cheapo mini-pots. I sprayed them with cleaner and the scratchiness cleared up, but I need to replace it all with good stuff.
I checked the Seymour Duncan website, they recommend 250K pots and a .05 mfd cap. Are these pretty much the usual values for a P-Bass?
I noticed two things about the existing setup: the volume pot does all its "turning down" in a very short range. Only a tiny bit or the top of the rotation is useful. Also, the tone control does almost nothing: at first I thought is was open-circuited, but if I listen really carefully, I can hear it's doing something, but too little to be noticeable in any real-word application.
So, what values do you recommend for a good all-around P-Bass?
I checked the Seymour Duncan website, they recommend 250K pots and a .05 mfd cap. Are these pretty much the usual values for a P-Bass?
I noticed two things about the existing setup: the volume pot does all its "turning down" in a very short range. Only a tiny bit or the top of the rotation is useful. Also, the tone control does almost nothing: at first I thought is was open-circuited, but if I listen really carefully, I can hear it's doing something, but too little to be noticeable in any real-word application.
So, what values do you recommend for a good all-around P-Bass?
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