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I just got my 330 from Elderly this afternoon.

Just to get the initial comments out of the way, it's fantastic so far. I spent about 6 hours jamming to REM and other standbys. Much fun;) I'll eventually get heavier strings, strap locks and so forth, but for now I am very happy with it.

Anyhoo, I have a question about something I just noticed regarding the 5th knob. The deal is, when I put the pickup selector on the neck position, the 5th knob STILL rolls off volume.
When I put the selector on the bridge setting, the 5th knob does not affect jack squat. I can twirl it all day and it does not effect tone in any way.

Is this normal? Intentional? If so I am either not understanding something, or my guitar was wired strangely.
I can still get whatever pickup blend I desire, but under the current situatio, the neck position on my pickup selector appears to be a bit rendundant. It cuts out the bridge PU but doesn;t give full volume to the neck. Help!

John, I think that's normal to my recollection, but I'll check later tonight (I have my 460 BG here at work but no amp to plug it into).

That's normal. The schematic http://www.rickenbacker.com/us/19511.htm should make it pretty clear even if you can't read schematics. The bass pickup's output goes to the mixer before it goes to the volume.

Just don't ask me to explain why.

I can sorta see the logic, if one assumes that most people use the bridge pickup most of the time. I don;t - I'm a bass freak so I like that neck job

It was way past my bedtime when I posted that. . . the manual wasn;t making much sense. Thanks