Precision 51 Bass How To Wire Up

You get all of the thump and presence of a hot vintage single coil early Precision Bass pickup without the noise Fine choice for studio or stage work.

Simple single conductorone ground output wiring; no tricky rewiring or lousy sounding active electronics are needed to produce robust output and great tone with low noise.

Lindy tells me that this pickup sounds so good that it may make multi pickup basses obsolete Output choices are Stock, 10, 5, -5.

It usually takes about a week to ten days but can be longer when Lindy is busy.

You get a nice, smooth taper on the 250K volume and a slightly wider tonal palate with the 500K tone.

Discussion in Pickups Electronics BG started by Banksy76, Dec 15, 2018.

I intend on rewiring a P-Bass of mine, upgrading the pickups, and using it as a project to develop my understand of such things.

Precision 51 Bass How To Wire Up

In my research I have found a few variations of how to wire up a precision bass and even Fenders website provides different methods for their standard American Precision and their Vintage.

What difference to soundtoneoperation would you expect from these 2 different wiring methods below and what would the difference in the value of the capacitors make Many thanks in advance.

The.1uF cap will take away more treble than the.05uF tone cap.

Regarding the.1uF cap, Im assuming that this will not result in less treble with the pot fully open, only a greater reduction when attenuating So the Vintage Fender P-Bass tone is as much to do with the tone pot capacitor value as it is the pickups installed In addition to the 2 diagrams contained in my opening post, are there any other methods of wiring the passive p-bass.

FWIW, I prefer the non-vintage wiring because I prefer a wire (instead of the cap) bridging the pots.

If a pot comes loose and turns, that cap leg wire breaks pretty easily whereas a wire has more flexibility and is much less likely to short out on a solder tab on the pots.

A true schematic view shows the funtional design of an electronic circuit.

As long as one physical wiring scheme produces the same electronic circuit as shown in the schematic, then (from an electronics perspective) its the same as any other wiring scheme that also does so.

Thank you all so much for taking the time to reply, your feedback has been most helpful and really appreciated.

With the info which you have provided above, along with the video that ex-tension provided a link to (top job on that video by the way Robbie K), I feel that I have got my head around the basics of the wiring of the p-bass and the influence that the tone cap has on the audio.

What Im now trying to establish is how best to determine which value the volume and tone pots should be, 250K or 500K.

I appreciate that ultimately this all comes down to personal opinion and preference but is there a general rule of thumb here, does the impedance of the pickups typically dictate the resistance value of the potentiometer Also upon looking at some of the pots that I have found installed in my bass guitars, I have some marked A which I understand is logarithmicAudio, B which in Linear, but what the hell are these pots marked with D.

So any reason why a D-pot would be used instead of a regular A for either the tone or volume control And is the preference between 250K and 500k volume and tone pots often determined by the impedance of the pickups.

I imagine a D taper would be better for a volume pot for guitarists playing with distortion.

Linear volumes dont turn down as fast, giving you more precise control of your volume setting.

A 500K volume has less resistance and will make for a touch brighter overall tone vs a 250K.

Similar for the tone pot: if you want an extra shot of clarity, use 500K here too.

You can always turn the tone control down to 7 or 8 to have the same tone setting as a 250K pot.

If you are using vintage output pickups, 250K is fine for both.

If they are hot or overwound, the 500K are nice to retain some high end.

Its also sometimes nice to mix a 250K linear volume pot with a 500K audio tone pot.