Pro Wiring for Your Bass – Classic Jazz Bass
Using top grade electronic components found in high end guitars, our Classic Jazz Bass® wiring harness uses expertly soldered vintage cloth wire to boot guaranteeing the best true-tone of your pickups
Classic J Bass® wiring harness consists of:
- 3 x CTS USA pots
- Prewired Switchcraft® USA 1/4” jack socket
- Your choice of polypropylene audiophile grade Tone Capacitor value
- Wiring diagram to connect your pickup
- Solderless installation option
We offer some tweakable options for you as well as a no-solder-installation version! Or select “stock” for the true classic circuit
Choosing a Custom Tone Capacitor Choosing Custom Pots
Functions
- Volume
- Volume
- Tone
CTS USA Pots
Featuring Vintage spec CTS pots, our prewired Jazz Bass kit is the ultimate upgrade to stock electronics in any guitar. Our pots have a classic audio taper designed to give a smooth roll off without suddenly jumping in volume
Vintage Cloth Wire
Only the best #22AWG Gavitt wire is used in our circuits for true vintage tone and look
Choice of Tone capacitor
You can tune the way your circuit sounds by tweaking the tone capacitor. Here’s a helpful guide to choosing capacitors
Choice of Pot Resistance
Customise your circuit, you can choose the resistance value of the pots we’ll use to make your harness. Helpful guide on choosing pot values
Installation
Simply reconnect your pickups screw in the prewired Jazz Bass® kit. Follow our easy to understand wiring diagram provided.
Solderless Installation Option
When a Solderless version is bought, you have a super easy job as you only need to screw in the connections – no soldering iron required! Follow our easy to understand wiring diagram provided.
Right or Left Handed
Select whether you wish to have your wiring made right or left handed, lefties turn fully anticlockwise for full volume. We’ll use a top quality C Curve CTS pot so that the volume and tones turn down evenly and smoothly
Will this fit my Bass?
This Jazz Bass® wiring harness will fit any J Bass style Bass. You may be required to drill the holes on your control plate to 10mm diameter to accommodate the larger USA CTS pots. The pot body is 24mm
If installing into an imported model or J Bass® copy, you may need new control knobs and switch tip to fit the US made CTS pots and Pickup Switch.
