Humbucker wiring help!!!

[Swills]

Afternoon chatters

 

I bought a fantastic Sandberg Florence bass, however the pots are pretty cheap and the humbucker is super powerful! 
 

As a result I’m thinking of rewiring the guitar however I’m battling finding a wiring diagram for a short scale humbucker equipped bass. 
 

I’ve been looking at the EB0 diagram which changes between years but I’m unsure how to approach this

 

does anyone has any advice that would help? 
 

thanks 

matt

[PaulThePlug]

Had to google, but Vol, Tone and Mudbucker?

Are you thinking of some sort of Single/Series/Parallel switching of the coils - 4 wires? Switch could replace the Tone control - or Push Push Tone Pot for Series/Parallel

 

I Mudbuckered my T-Bird wired A500k Vol to Pure Tone Jack Socket

Any coil switching would end up on Std Parallel, and wasn't reckoning on there being much treble needing rolling off from the mudbucker.

[Swills]

Yes Paul! It is a Mudbucker however it only has two cables despite having a push/pull pot on the tone. I’m thinking of wiring with 500k mini CTS pots but then at a loss after that. I’d be happy with no coil split on the basis that I’m trying to find the guitars tone

[PaulThePlug]

Some blah blah under tech talk...

https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/other-bass/model-one

Edited October 26 by PaulThePlug

[Swills]

Here’s the internals as they are currently configured. I’m unsure of the rating of the volume pot but I could simply switch out the push/pull for a 500k tapered pot 

[tauzero]

What is wrong with it as it is, and what exactly do you want to achieve? Looks like the current tone control switches between two capacitors to give two different ranges of treble cut.

[Hellzero]

Totally right @tauzero : https://www.sandberg-guitars.de/basses/sandberg-florence-bass-series/

 

[Hellzero]

You didn't search that much @Swills , it literally took me 5 seconds to find the wiring diagram of this pickup (just remove the blue heat shrink tubing to have access to the 4 wires and certainly a fifth ground screening wire):

 

 

It doesn't matter if it's a 4, 5 or 6 strings bass, the wiring is the same and yours simply has a metal cover.

 

https://sandbergshop.gambiocloud.com/Sandberg-M5-Bridge-Powerhumbucker-Pickup-201.html?language=en

 

[Swills]

@Hellzero my wiring has the black going to hot which doesn’t match the diagram above. 
 

I’ve messaged Sandberg to see what they come back with. I know the pickup on the Florence is referred to as a ‘mudbucker’ which might explain the alternative wiring. 

[Swills]

@tauzero I’m wanting to remove the push/pull, it makes such a small difference to the tone, and I’m looking for a traditional wiring for a short scale 

[Hellzero]

There is no such thing as short scale wiring, as a pickup is a pickup...

 

By the way, did you remove the blue heat shrink tubing to discover that there are 4 wires (+ ground) and that the wiring diagram above shows you how to wire a push-pull to have the pickup in split (single coil) and series modes, which is roughly what you want?

 

You could also have the push-pull wired for series/parallel modes, which is not complicated at all if you know what you're doing.

[tauzero]

42 minutes ago, Swills said:

@tauzero I’m wanting to remove the push/pull, it makes such a small difference to the tone, and I’m looking for a traditional wiring for a short scale 

 

Decide which capacitor gives you the tone range you want and swap in a pot of the same value and the capacitor, which would be wired up the same way as a P.

 

[Swills]

@Hellzero I want to remove the push/pull entirely, not wire in split and series modes. 
 

@tauzero this is very helpful, thank you 🙏🏻 would you use 500k pots instead? 

Edited 16 hours ago by Swills

[tauzero]

50 minutes ago, Swills said:

@Hellzero I want to remove the push/pull entirely, not wire in split and series modes. 
 

@tauzero this is very helpful, thank you 🙏🏻 would you use 500k pots instead? 

 

If it's making the right noise at the moment and your only concern is removing the push/pull, I'd just go with the values of whatever is currently in there.