Drewpalin1

4 hours ago, Doctor J said:

Follow this, (VVT is a standard setup whether you'r JJ or PJ) paying particular attention to the lugs you're connecting to on the tone pot. The output of the pickup goes to the middle lug of the pot, the ground gets soldered to the pot case.
 

As it turns out I'm just a massive idiot, I wired the tone pot up backwards!!

Thanks everyone for the advice.

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

Almost ccertainly if you are getting a tone control acting as a volume control, it means that your capacitor is broken / shorted and you need a new one. They are only a few pence. Take it off, try it, the pot should do nothing (if it does your wiring is duff). Put a new capacitor on there.

This was my first thought, new caps have just been delivered so I will try this before ripping all the wiring out! Haha!

Hi I hope someone can help as I am at my whits end with the wiring in one of my basses. I bought a cheap bass to use as a practice guitar, I replaced the pickups and redid all the wiring. It is a P/J setup and when I had rewired it it ended up with 3 volume controls, the 2 volume pots work as they should but the tone control also worked as a volume control, I ripped everything out, re did the wiring again and replaced the pots but I am still getting the same issue.

I used a standard P/J wiring diagram, I don't know if it is related to the same issue but the volume output is pretty low, i have a Seymour Duncan quarter pounder as the J pickup which should have decent output.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am out of ideas.

Thanks in advance.

That’s great, I think I will take the plunge, thanks to everyone for your answers!

Hi guys

i am looking at downsizing my amp for ease when gigging. 
I am looking at the OrigiAL 300 Kickback amps, however I can’t find whether the power rating is RMS or peak (been conned by this before, had a 250w Ampeg which turned out to be peak so blew the amp after a few gigs).

any help would be appreciated.

thanks.

Drew