Blend Pots Wiring Tutorial

Actual blend potentiometer wiring tutorial using MN500K dual taper.
Blend potentiometer is also called dual, balance, select and pan and blend control.
#BlendPots #BassWiring #Musiclily

[@immusicman]

My soldering skills are greatly improved after watching you do it in your videos. Thanks!

[@tixcustomsph]

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[@martysradioshow5979]

Yun may bagong tech sa wiring si sir Salamat po sa tips

[@tixcustomsph]

Salamat din sir!

[@Hiphopdabop]

Excellent course..

[@tixcustomsph]

Thanks!

[@Renegadrian]

in a lefty bass, rule of thumb is no more. actually you can swap up/down on a righty too, but it makes more sense on a lefty. cw is neck, ccw is bridge. I did it on my basses, ungrounded blend cutting the traces for no load.

[@tixcustomsph]

Yes we have to reverse 1s and 3s if we are gonna wire a lefty bass. With regards to blend, only the upper and lower.

[@iwanhadikurniawan163]

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[@tixcustomsph]

Thanks!

[@taranodonnell7580]

Got a Bass from someone recently. The center position on the blend pot is much lounder than the other two positions. I'm assuming something is wired wrong or bad pot?

[@tixcustomsph]

It could be a bad pot. Is it an MN type blend pot?

[@tombrackettjr.9308]

Ok, I do not play bass but am building my first bass for my father. I have Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound pickups. I bought two volume pots and a tone pot. But I am planning to replace to tone pot with blend pot. So does it make sense to have two volume and this blend pot? Do you have any instructions on doing that?

[@tixcustomsph]

There's no need to have 2 volume pots if using a blend pot. Just master volume, blend and tone. Please check the Seymour Duncan website for diagrams.

[@tombrackettjr.9308]

@@tixcustomsph Thanks, I found the instructions. Going to change out tonight.

[@tixcustomsph]

Goodluck!

[@GonTello]

HI thanks for the video, I did this in a bass that had 2 volumens, is an active bass with circuit, but I did everthing ok and it sounds ok, but the problem is that blend is almost unnoticiable, when I move it to Bridge pickup its like it changes all the way and I don't have a smooth changing of pickups while rotating the potentiometer... why is that?? thanks for the video It helped me a lot.

[@tixcustomsph]

Hi did you use the MN type blend pot?

[@GonTello]

@@tixcustomsph yes the same one that you have... The only thing is that mine the output goes to the volume pot and the output in the volume goes to the preamp... I read that there is another pot to use a Delano C250k special for this... But I don't know

[@AlanElias350]

My blent pot has no sound when in the middle position. Only when on bridge or neck. Did i do something wrong?

[@tixcustomsph]

If it is MN type, just reverse the hot and ground wires 👍

[@christophernorman2781]

Are you only using the hot leads of the pickups? Hard to tell in video

[@tixcustomsph]

Ground leads are soldered to the case of the pot.

[@christophernorman2781]

Thanks this video helped me a bunch.

[@jonathankreusch9326]

Do you have a recommendation on fine tuning the pot?

[@tixcustomsph]

Is it like a trimmer pot?

[@jonathankreusch9326]

Thanks for the quick response. On the back of the blend pot case is a female hex slot.

[@tixcustomsph]

Trimming it CCW will give around 300 +/- ohms off for the bridge pickup at center position. I would recommend turning it CW for a near 0 ohm at center and full bridge position.

[@ATZona]

haloo...how to connec pu Bartolini mk1 to blend spot?

[@tixcustomsph]

Just the same as I did in the vid.