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If you replace the existing pots without replacing the vinyl insulated wire, you'll melt a lot of the insulation with the heat required to remove the pots from it.

Is this the reason why someone could buy and use “vintage” cloth-covered wire?
That is indeed why I build wiring harnesses with ...

This is not something I’m going to attempt to do myself. I’ll be having it done by a professional repair person. I’m all for DIY’s but not on something like this.

aceonbass wrote:If you replace the existing pots without replacing the vinyl insulated wire, you'll melt a lot of the insulation with the heat required to remove the pots from it.

Would replacing the entire harness be a better idea?

I was actually considering have the pots replaced with 250 and 500k’s and removing the .0047 cap. It would entail losing the Push/Pull pot entirely but I’m ok with that. The vintage setting is too thin sounding to my ears so I don’t really mind losing it.

No, not at all. It’s just the tone control (or lack of it) on both pickups. There’s no difference between the tone control being on 1 or 10.

I recently picked up a 2014 4003 bass. The bass sounds and plays better than any previous Ric’s that I’ve owned with the exception of the tone controls for both the neck and bridge pickups. The problem Im having is there doesn’t seem to be any gradual increase (or decrease) in either one of the tone ...