Hey folks-
I did some searching, and couldn't quite find the results I was looking for, so I thought i'd bug you all with a post.
I recently picked up a Bartolini MMC pickup to put in my '97 Stingray 3EQ. (I'm sure many of you are getting ready to line up and fire away with reasons I shouldn't do this, but it's too late, and it's my bass, so too bad!
)
Anywho, I took it in to a local shop (that does quality work, and that I trust completely) to swap out pickups. When I got it back, everything was great, it played fine, but the pickup was set higher than my liking. I then figured out that because of the size of the solder joints, not to mention the height difference in the pickup itself, i would need to do some routing.
I first tried filing down the solder joints, which helped, but the main problem was the wire bundle. So, I got out the dremel and plunge router and went to work.
Some of you might be crying now, and I understand. The surgery went well.
I only took out maybe 1/8 inch around where the wire bundle sits, and now it sits perfectly.
Now to the meat of the question. I don't remember how the stock pickup was attached, but I can only assume that the white wire attached to the preamp where it says "W" and the black wire to where it says "B".
The MMC has several different wiring options; it was attached in series, so the red and white wires were soldered together and taped off, the green and shield wires were soldered to the "B" point on the preamp, and the black wire to the "W" point on the preamp. I put it back together this way as well.
According to the Bartolini instructions, the Black is hot and the Green and shield are the ground.
Everything works great, it sounds awesome...... but is it done correctly?
Wow, long post for a short question. Anybody who's done this replacement before, any help would be cool. Thanks!!!
I did some searching, and couldn't quite find the results I was looking for, so I thought i'd bug you all with a post.
I recently picked up a Bartolini MMC pickup to put in my '97 Stingray 3EQ. (I'm sure many of you are getting ready to line up and fire away with reasons I shouldn't do this, but it's too late, and it's my bass, so too bad!
)Anywho, I took it in to a local shop (that does quality work, and that I trust completely) to swap out pickups. When I got it back, everything was great, it played fine, but the pickup was set higher than my liking. I then figured out that because of the size of the solder joints, not to mention the height difference in the pickup itself, i would need to do some routing.
I first tried filing down the solder joints, which helped, but the main problem was the wire bundle. So, I got out the dremel and plunge router and went to work.
Some of you might be crying now, and I understand. The surgery went well.
I only took out maybe 1/8 inch around where the wire bundle sits, and now it sits perfectly.
Now to the meat of the question. I don't remember how the stock pickup was attached, but I can only assume that the white wire attached to the preamp where it says "W" and the black wire to where it says "B".
The MMC has several different wiring options; it was attached in series, so the red and white wires were soldered together and taped off, the green and shield wires were soldered to the "B" point on the preamp, and the black wire to the "W" point on the preamp. I put it back together this way as well.
According to the Bartolini instructions, the Black is hot and the Green and shield are the ground.
Everything works great, it sounds awesome...... but is it done correctly?
Wow, long post for a short question. Anybody who's done this replacement before, any help would be cool. Thanks!!!
