250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

[Lucky Eastwood]

Hey everybody! I'm planning on swapping out the stock pickup out of my Squier Affinity Jazz Bass V. I might as well upgrade the rest of the electronics, so I'm wondering if I should get 250K pots or 500K pots to go with the Seymour Duncan Apollo set (split-humbucker set intended to fit in single-coil routs).

BTW, I plan to have it wired with a master volume knob, a blend knob, and a master tone knob instead of the traditional VVT setup.

[Clint 55]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

Good idea to do the blend knob. On my bass I tried 250, 500, and settled on 1 meg volume and 500k no load tone. Max clarity and string detail but can be rolled off easily with the tone. Not brittle or anything, still sounds like a bass. It's been the only application I've found for 1 meg. If you don't want to do 1 meg, I'd say 500k.

[Lucky Eastwood]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

On my bass I tried 250, 500, and settled on 1 meg volume and 500k no load tone.

Should I get a 500k blend pot as well?

[Clint 55]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

Yes

[jeremy]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

ive used 250k pots on every passive bass ive wired up. p, j, mm pup didnt really matter. never felt the need for more high end. as far as a blend pot, id go 500k.

[Mincer]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

I have used 250k. At that point, I didn't need to try 500k, as the sound was nice and balanced on my bass. If you have a particularly muddy bass, I can see going to 500k, but if it isn't start with 250k...you might not need to change at all.

[Clint 55]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

Wack

[jeremy]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

yes, using a 1meg volume and no load tone is totally wack but whatever works for you is what ya should do

[Clint 55]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

A wider range of not only usable but great sounding tone wack? Strange thinking.

[Lucky Eastwood]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

I’ll try 250K with a 500K blend pot and see how it goes. I definitely want to get the best of bright and dark sounds out of my bass. It's a somewhat tinny sounding bass (at least judging by the stock pickups) so who knows.

[jeremy]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

A wider range of not only usable but great sounding tone wack? Strange thinking.

as i stated before, ive never felt the need for more high end than a 250k pot has given me. maybe i could see 500k on something really dark but 1meg and a no load? id have to keep things turned down all the time which seems wack to me. range for the sake of range when i dont find it useful doesnt make much sense to me. obviously you like it which is fine. you like what you like, i like what i like.

[Clint 55]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

Yes fine. 250k works well. But it's a bass. Letting the full range of signal through doesn't overload the sound with highs like it would on a single coil guitar. I play with the pots wide open all the time and it sounds good.

[Lucky Eastwood]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

Well, I received a pickup on Christmas. Unfortunatlely it wasn’t an Apollo Jazz V, I got an SMB 5a for Music Man basses. I might go a different route for now and probably put together an Old Smoothie-esque bass (positioned in the middle like a P-Bass probably).

[Clint 55]

Re: 250K or 500K Pots For Apollo Jazz Bass V Set?

A fat humbucker, cool.