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This is pretty much typical guitar wiring. Nothing special about it, really.
I dunno. Just one more complication if you are playing live?
I recall there was a poll some years ago on TB asking how often bass players actually changed their bass and amp settings when they played out. The tweakers were a small minority. I was surprised how few players touched either.
As I write I'm in Renaissance immersion. I'm tentatively about to help launch a tribute sorta show of their songs. Some nice bass parts.
I don't have any experience with bass pickups, but I know some of them are split where one coil is on two strings while another is on the other two. I never really thought about that before, though...
I recall there was a poll some years ago on TB asking how often bass players actually changed their bass and amp settings when they played out. The tweakers were a small minority. I was surprised how few players touched either.
This is pretty much typical guitar wiring. Nothing special about it, really.
All knobs on the guitar dimed
But does it go to eleven?That used to be me but when playing with the Bisonic family I discovered a useful difference between dimed and rolling back to about 7.
But does it go to eleven?
I'm no bass guy (I'll keep repeating that), but I've never seen a guitar with serially wired pickups except for the American Deluxe Strat that I had with the absolutely horrid S1 wiring scheme that included it as an option. An option that I removed because it (the switching) was terrible.
When looking at pickups, this is the difference:
Interestingly enough, Brian May wired his pickups in series which is something I never knew:
All pics from here: http://proguitarshop.com/andyscorner/pickups-demystified-part-one-series-parallel-wiring1
Here's something interesting - I was down at the practice studio checking out how the Polish wonderbass sounds through the ridiculous Hiwatt I bought a while ago. Through a sealed 4x12" cab.
Was with a fellow bass player who runs the place. He kept tinkering with the amp controls while I played. Finally I handed the bass over to him. He then set to tinkering with the bass controls.
What's relevant to this discussion is that he noted that the bass goes silent if you turn down the volume on either pickup. So it must be wired in series, eh?
Is that the magic test?