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bass rewiring!

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Do you stick to 250k pots, go 500k, or? What brands of pots? What do you like for tone caps?

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that really depends on the pickups and how the bass sounds and what frequency you want to attenuate. More details on what you are working with would be helpful.
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I'll throw a curve ball and say 1 meg pots. For me, I gives more upper end cut and open-ness. The trade off is that the roll off curve is steeper, but I never really roll of my tone or volume any way.
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I'm rewiring a Squier frankenJazz with Duncan designed pickups (60s vm body and hardware, maple neck from 77 vm jazz). Will it be 'louder' if I go with 500k, or brighter if I use a 500k for tone? Probably the cheap stock pots, but I'm not getting good rolloff on either. The pickups sound great full bore, but I'm feeling like a 500k tone pot with a bigger cap would give it more range...
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Straight to jack is my new go to.

Cut out the middle man, get some flatwounds

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GlitteryChunks wrote:Straight to jack is my new go to.

Cut out the middle man, get some flatwounds

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