I've got a King… it's a bass guitar and it has the strangest problem I have ever come across, the tone control don't do anything. I looked at the wiring and it's all good, I've checked the pots which are both 500KA's and even swapped the tone one in and out with new 500KA's and 250KA's, I've tried caps from 10nf to 100nf, I even altered the wiring with the tone cap coming right off the pickup or right off the volume wiper and all with no change in the tone… I'm not getting any tone function period.
This bass uses 2 TV Jones Thunderblade pickups which measure about 4 to 4.2 killohms DC. These go to a Gibson style toggle switch who's output goes to one side of the 500KA volume pot, the other side goes to ground. The tone control originally came off the volume pot terminal the pickup feed was hooked to but I have tested it on the volume pot wiper as well, this volume wiper goes straight to the output jack. The tone pot is 500KA with one end being fed from the volume pot, the other end unhooked (open) and the wiper attached to a 33nf cap to ground, right now I have a 47nf cap in there.
Both the volume control and pickup switch work perfect but the tone control is D.O.A. … any ideas?
This bass uses 2 TV Jones Thunderblade pickups which measure about 4 to 4.2 killohms DC. These go to a Gibson style toggle switch who's output goes to one side of the 500KA volume pot, the other side goes to ground. The tone control originally came off the volume pot terminal the pickup feed was hooked to but I have tested it on the volume pot wiper as well, this volume wiper goes straight to the output jack. The tone pot is 500KA with one end being fed from the volume pot, the other end unhooked (open) and the wiper attached to a 33nf cap to ground, right now I have a 47nf cap in there.
Both the volume control and pickup switch work perfect but the tone control is D.O.A. … any ideas?
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