MiltyG565

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1360151216' post='1965570'] Hi Milty I'm a bit confused as to what you're asking... There also seem to be a lot of red wires - which doesn't help you at all! The red wire that connects to the volume pot seems to lead to the switch, the green wire on the vol pot goes to the preamp. So I would say that if you're bypassing the switch, the red vol pot wire should be replaced with the HOT from the pickup. The COLD and EARTH from the pickup can just go to the vol pot casing. Also, if i'm not mistaken, the red wire we are talking about actually contains a white wire and a braided screen. In this case, the two HOT wires from the pickup should be connected to that white wire, and the two other wires from the pickup and the screen wire can all connect to the screen of the red wire going to the volume pot. I would leave all of the preamp gubbins alone as it seems to be all wired up already. I think this is the same G&B preamp they use in Traben basses. So you might find out more info there.... I hope that helps! [/quote] You are absolutely right! Unfortunately, on my last go, i wired the hot AND cold from the pickup onto the red wire... DOH! I will remove the cold and solder it to earth then. The coil seletcor switch is now acting as the earth for the pickup.

Another one, bit more detailed.

Here's a picture. Sorry about the quality, i've just taken it using my mac. You can see 3 of the pots are just connected with the preamp, and the volume pot has 2 connections into the preamp. 1 input into the preamp comes from the 9v battery. 2 others are either inputs or outputs (i suspect outputs) to the output jack. The red wire on the volume pot goes into the cavity for the coil selector switch (which is defunct). The volume pot is the top one with the green wire.

Any help greatly appreciated! If anybody was able to find a schematic for an OLP HH or stingray HH, i would be a very happy lad! I've been looking, but can't find any, but then i don't have much experience searching for these things. New idea- Black wire from pickup to red of volume pot, and red of the pickup to positive terminal of the battery case, providing a positive voltage going through the pickup, out to the volume pot and in to the preamp... no? Maybe that would blow the preamp?

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[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1360071048' post='1964307'] Sorry Milty I didn't realise it was an OLP - and that you have a different preamp. Some pictures might help, but I'm afraid if the pre is a little sealed black box with all the wires coming out of it already then you'll need to find out what the wires are. Getting it wrong could screw the preamp so it never works. Guessing the wiring for the pickup itself is not so disasterous, you might just get a bad sound, or no sound. To start with I would wire the pickup directly to the jack socket to test the wiring configuration for that. Once you have that sorted you'll be halfway there at least. [/quote] One of the inputs in the preamp is the live from the battery, one the green wire that goes on to the centre prong of the volume the pot, and one the earth that goes with the green wire. Similarly with the red wire of the volume pot and the earth for it. All other outputs are for the bass, mids and treble.

New info- The way i had it wired, when i plugged it in, the top coil of the pickup had far less magnetism that it did before i turned it on. Isn't the top coil wound in reverse to buck the hum? hmmm.

Ok, so i did what i thought would work actually didn't work. So what i did was take the red and black wires from the pickup, and wire them to the red wire on the volume pot... Any ideas what to do now?

Although it would make more sense if the black was negative. It would fit the colour coding of the rest of the wiring.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1360063685' post='1964138'] Hi Milty, I'm not well up on MM wiring but i didn't think the MM pickups were active. From the looks of it you have white red black and green wires plus the braided screen. I would say that you have two wires from each coil of the pickup (+ and -) Looking at the SD diagram, the green, white and braided earth go to the casing of the volume pot (i.e. not a tab) and the black and red go to the pre-amp AUDIO input. No power involved. But if you want to coil tap then you'll need the second diagram (and a switch) too. [/quote] Cheers, but i think i should clarify, this is actually an OLP pickup, and it is passive, but the bass came with an active preamp, which is housed in a little plastic box with all the inputs and outputs already being used for other things. I think the wires on this are different from the SD pickup ones. I think the green and black might be the ones for coil taps, the red and white the + and - and the thick unsheathed one the earth. Naturally, since i don't want a coil tap, i would solder them all to earth, like the diagram suggests for parallel wiring. But that still leaves the issue of getting the signal from the pickup back into the preamp, which i think i have solved, and i am going to test soon.

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[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1359975963' post='1962634'] To gigs, I always carry all my leads, etc. in my bass hard case. However, I put my newish Mono strap on the P-bass, and with everything else already in the case, it won't shut! Now I never take off my straps normally - but it looks like I'll have to, and also get a box to carry it all in! Am I in the minority here? Or should I have got a decent leads box years ago.....and take off the strap every time I put it in the case (a right pain!)? [/quote] Everything goes into mine. Leads, tuner, strings, books, tools, cleaning stuff... it all goes in, and with the strap on too. If it doesn't shut, i make it shut.

I've been thinking about this, and looking at this schematic from SD- http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/products/basslines/501040-110.pdf I would really appreciate some input from somebody here, but this is what i'm thinking atm. Solder the red wire from the pickup to the red wire from the volume pot. Solder the white wire onto the positive of the battery terminal. This then goes into the preamp and through all the preampery. hmm... would that work?

The wire coming from the volume pot (not actually the preamp) also has another bare wire, which is earth. I tried remembering how it went with the switch in, but i just keep getting stuck at trying to think where the signal rejoined the control panel. I'll take a picture of it.

Ok, so that is a picture of the pickup that came out of it. I'm thinking it's red-power in, White-power out, bare-earth and green and blue for the coil switch. This was in a double humbucker model, and i want to make it a single humbucker version, so i removed the coil switch. The preamp had 1 wire that went to the coil switch which I assume was live, then all the wires of the pickups went to the coil switch, but how do i now wire the pickup straight into the preamp with the coil switch? Cheers guys.

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[quote name='russtufella' timestamp='1359897645' post='1961703'] Hi I'm Russ, I started playing bass again about 5 years ago mainly at home. I recently joined a covers band so I'll be looking for advice on tecnique and gear. I have a musicman sub amercian made and a yamaha bb1024. I have a ashdown ct210 evoII combo amp. Cheers Russ [/quote] Advice on technique and gear- you should have good technique and good gear Welcome! I'm sure any of the patients here will be willing to with any advice you need

[quote name='gully_jones' timestamp='1359950106' post='1962447'] My wife is from NOLA and I lived there for 8 years. We are about an hour and half away now but still get down there often. Everyone should do Mardi Gras in NOLA once in there lifetime, twice if they survive the first time. Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. [/quote] If we survive the first one? Christ, do they do that many drugs at it?

[quote name='JimBobTTD' timestamp='1359867330' post='1961376'] Just goes to show how differently people can perceive things. I would describe single coils to be thin and with pronounced highs and humbuckers to be fat and with pronounced lows [with a huge amount of small print to be added at the bottom of the post as it is never so black and white]; ie the polar opposite of what you said! [/quote] No no, that's what i meant, the humbuckers are fatter and rounder, but in the ones i have tried at least, the high end has been pretty well defined too. Single coils aren't as fat but are still quite pronounced in the highs i find.

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