Mikel07

Sound is great but been a long time since I played the bass with original pickup.

Huge Thankyou to everyone for their help. Faulty pickups replaced and bass back working once again. Going to need a bit of setup, but back playing and sounding great. mike

Out of covers I can’t see any issue with coil wire. im looking at ordering Fender Original Vintage Precision Bass Pickups. £85 here in uk and come mounted on moulding so just needs two wires attached. think I will have a look at rewiring the old pickup somewhere. I’ll let you know how it goes when they arrive…..

Brilliant guys thanks for the help and advice. Open circuit pickup was the problem. Once I disconnected them I can read resistance to the first pickup second one open circuit. Tried resoldering joints no luck. If I order up two new pickups is it difficult to setup the pickup height again? Any advice on which pickups would suit?

Guitar needs a polish but in very good condition except for tarnishing on bridge and pitting on machine heads.

Thx guys for all the helpful comments. I’ve attached a pic of the poor base laid bare! I’ve metered the circuitry and can’t find anything obvious still. But I connected it to the amp and touched the various points as suggested. Buzz from socket tip ok. Present on both side of volume pot and one side of tone pot not the other which I think is earth anyhow. Interesting fact rearmost pick-up buzz when touched not frontmost. No noise from there. Have resistance reading across pickups but that’s when in circuit and it varies with volume pot movement. im leaning towards issue with pickup. Not sure tone pot would cause this. Definitely not a short there. mike

I haven’t picked up my bass for about 20 years lol. No I’m retired I want to get back to playing. But there is no sound coming from my bass. Completely dead. It’s not the lead or amp because I’ve changed those. I’ve metered the lead all the connection inside the bass and all looks ok. Taking a resistance reading across the output Jack there is no short, nor is it open, and if I rotate the volume knob the resistance changes at the Jack. Is it possible to get a good reading from the pickups but they are faulty? I’ve though about connecting the pickups to the output directly but didn’t want to meddle that much unless I had to. Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.. mike

Thanks a lot for your help……much appreciated mike

Looking to purchase Fender Rumble 40 Bass amp. It’s for home use so I want to connect my iPad to play through the amp to then use the headphones to play with. is this straight forward? Do I need adaptors? thankyou. mike

Hi, i am keen to get back to enjoying some music at home. I’ve no need to record or use the amp for playing with drums etc. I’ve looked at both of the above amps. Fender looks good but a little worried that the range of sounds available on the katana might be the way to go. I also haven’t heard them live so wondering which has the best quality. any help or comments really appreciated. I play a good fellow active bass and 70s fender precision. mike