TDR1138 wrote:Or....
...replace the tone knob with a stack of tone and blend.
Start with solo neck and 100% tone. First turn the tone gradually down; once that journey is complete, slip down the stack and keep turning in the same direction, going from neck solo to both to bridge solo. (Is there such a thing as a stacked knob with a detent?)
On classic JB controls, to go from neck 100% tone to bridge 0% tone you have to turn one vol all the way down, the other all the way up, and the tone all the way down. With the tone/blend stack just turn both parts of the stack together from one extreme to the other.
TDR1138 wrote:Ricky Rioli wrote:.... I thought of my Yamaha, with its 5 knobs and 1 switch.....
Just thought of this...
Both pickups feed into a 4 pole double throw switch. Switch up puts the two pickups out from the switch into your VVT or VBT circuit, using three of the pot holes (and the switch hole). Switch down puts just the neck pickup into a separate VT circuit (using pot holes 4 and 5) and disconnects the bridge pickup.
Once I had read this for a third time, I managed to get my head around it, and the elegance of the solution suddenly became clear. Pootle around decorously on low tone, flick the switch and BLAM.
The VBT circuit already exist when it's on passive: all that would need doing is turning the two currently redundant knobs into the VT circuit, and changing the switch. Amazing!
Ps, after some more thought: this solution could be fitted on a JB: (1) Stacked v/t on bridge only circuit (2) Stacked v/t for both pickups circuit with (3) smaller blend knob. Move the jack to the side and put the switch in its place.
Pps, only after yet more thought did I realise that this is simply having both a p bass circuit and a j bass circuit in the same instrument. It's amazing how slow-witted a brain can be sometimes
