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pickup wiring

8/8/2000 8:12 PM
Bob	pickup wiring I hope I'm putting this topic in the right place. If not, my apologies. I'm working on an electrified violin for a friend. His complaint is a very trebly sound (with a lack of bass) out of his pickup. The pickup is a Barcus-Berry pickup mounted in the bass side of the wooden bridge. It is wired to a volume control - an Allen-Bradley type W mini pot with a Value of 1 meg. All of this pot's volume occurs in the first 1/8 of its rotation (it goes from full volume to off), so I'm assuming this isn't a good value match to the pickup. I've also been experimenting with various capacitors to shunt some of the excess highs to ground to get the tone a bit better but when the cap gets too large, all I succeed in doing is losing alot the output volume. Any ideas, suggestions? Thanks in Adv. Bob

8/8/2000 8:12 PM

Bob

pickup wiring

I hope I'm putting this topic in the right place. If not, my apologies.

I'm working on an electrified violin for a friend. His complaint is a very trebly sound (with a lack of bass) out of his pickup. The pickup is a Barcus-Berry pickup mounted in the bass side of the wooden bridge. It is wired to a volume control - an Allen-Bradley type W mini pot with a Value of 1 meg. All of this pot's volume occurs in the first 1/8 of its rotation (it goes from full volume to off), so I'm assuming this isn't a good value match to the pickup. I've also been experimenting with various capacitors to shunt some of the excess highs to ground to get the tone a bit better but when the cap gets too large, all I succeed in doing is losing alot the output volume. Any ideas, suggestions? Thanks in Adv.

Bob

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dutch q{I'm working o... -- 8/9/2000 12:21 AM
Sweetfinger Sounds like an impedance mismatch.... -- 8/9/2000 1:02 AM
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