Bass cut capacator on a Jazz Bass
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:57 am
Has anyone ever added a bass cut capacitor to the bridge pickup on their jazz bass?
Cole
Cole
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IIRC, Fender did that to allow for "rolling down" the neck pickup relative to the bridge pickup as there is only the one master volume control on the RB bass.cassius987 wrote:Fender's Roscoe Beck basses accomplished the same thing in a better way for the Jazz by putting a switchable resistor in series with the neck pickup. So it unbalanced the two impedances and got that fuller "two pickups operating independently, heard together" effect you kind of get with the cap in-line (but you REALLY get with independent loads like when you do Ric-O-Sound). I was impressed with this feature and would recommend it over the bridge cap. However I don't know what value the resistor is supposed to be. I believe it may not even break 1 k-ohm.
Exactly right, but the actual way it works is not like a volume control. The resistor is in series, not in parallel leading to ground like a potentiometer to control volume.jps wrote:IIRC, Fender did that to allow for "rolling down" the neck pickup relative to the bridge pickup as there is only the one master volume control on the RB bass.cassius987 wrote:Fender's Roscoe Beck basses accomplished the same thing in a better way for the Jazz by putting a switchable resistor in series with the neck pickup. So it unbalanced the two impedances and got that fuller "two pickups operating independently, heard together" effect you kind of get with the cap in-line (but you REALLY get with independent loads like when you do Ric-O-Sound). I was impressed with this feature and would recommend it over the bridge cap. However I don't know what value the resistor is supposed to be. I believe it may not even break 1 k-ohm.