cold95 Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 (edited) ok i just got a set of Bartolini W4CBC - Washburn Style Pickups (http://www.bestbassgear.com/bartolini-w4-pickups.htm) and it came with paper about wiring it to a switch, but im not using a switch. now the pick-ups have 5 wires. there a black one, red and white that are solder together, green and ground (silver wire with no tubing around it). i am gunna be using 4 pots, master volume, tone, tone, blend. now there is a diagram on bartolini site to wire it to a blend pot, but they only show 2 wires coming from the pick up. (http://www.bartolini.net/instructions/pick...dinst_alpha.pdf). so plz can anyone help me figure out how my pick-ups should be wired? for some info on what i got. this is my first/second bass im making. i have a 500k blend pot that has no solderable plate on the bottom. (http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_p...ntrol_Pots.html) also if i line the pick-up routes with sheilded tape do i have to ground the tape to the bridge? if you need anymore info plz ask. but plz help me and thanks for taking the time to help. Edited January 20, 2005 by cold95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank falbo Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 Wise choice! I know a lot about Bartolinis, but it seems most of what you're asking about is very universal information. They're color coded like a Seymour Duncan. Either Black or Green is hot and the other is ground, depending on the phase. You could choose either way so long as you wired both pickups that way. The Red and White are coil jumpers, so you could use them as coil cuts, if you wired a switch or coil bleed pot. Otherwise just leave them together and tape them off so they don't short anything. The Silver is ground no matter what. It's connected to the baseplate on the pickup and the shielding foil wrap inside the cable. As for the blend pot you can do without grounding it, but I prefer to solder to the side of it. If that proves too hard then solder a ground wire to the locking washer that goes in between the pot and the guitar body. That will make contact and ground the chassis of the pot. In my opinion, you'd get a bunch more useable sounds if you replaced one of your tone knobs with a coil splitter. It could be a switch, or it could still be a tone knob but with a push/pull pot that would cut the coils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cold95 Posted January 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 (edited) well thank you for helping me. i acutally plan on getting prolly the 2 band bartolini pre-amp down the road pretty soon, in a month or so. if everthing works out with the bass construction and what not. any suggestion about pre-amps? and what exactly does "cutting the coil" mean and do? Edited January 20, 2005 by cold95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 (edited) ok i just got a set of Bartolini W4CBC - Washburn Style Pickups (http://www.bestbassgear.com/bartolini-w4-pickups.htm) and it came with paper about wiring it to a switch, but im not using a switch. now the pick-ups have 5 wires. there a black one, red and white that are solder together, green and ground (silver wire with no tubing around it). i am gunna be using 4 pots, master volume, tone, tone, blend. now there is a diagram on bartolini site to wire it to a blend pot, but they only show 2 wires coming from the pick up. (http://www.bartolini.net/instructions/pick...dinst_alpha.pdf). so plz can anyone help me figure out how my pick-ups should be wired? for some info on what i got. this is my first/second bass im making. i have a 500k blend pot that has no solderable plate on the bottom. (http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_p...ntrol_Pots.html) also if i line the pick-up routes with sheilded tape do i have to ground the tape to the bridge? if you need anymore info plz ask. but plz help me and thanks for taking the time to help. ← Connect both green wires and both bare wires to your ground point - tape off the red/white wires so they can't short against anything. Each black wire should go to its tone pot and then to one side of the blend pot (use the second drawing in that Bartolini PDF), and the blend pot output goes to the master volume, and Bob's yer uncle! A tone pot wires up like this: The upper left wire connects to the black wire, and the upper right wire connects to the guitar's ground point. <edit>Sorry, Frank, looks like we had the same idea - I just type a lot slower. Edited January 20, 2005 by lovekraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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