Wiring woes - help me Shortscale

[NickD]

I’m having a nightmare with the simplest of circuits - I may just have the pots reversed, but any wiring is a black art to me.

Sorry for the terrible picture, but I’ve got the guitar wired up as below and I’m getting sound, but the volume pot doesn’t go all the way off and the tone pot does nothing at all from what I can hear.

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[plopswagon]

Stole this from tdpri http://www.tdpri.com/attachments/single-pu-jpg.100535/

[sunshiner]

This one is a bit closer to your initial sketch

[benecol]

Fuck, I should have said: those knobs I sent you, one's metric, one's imperial. That'll fuck the whole thing.

[NickD]

Fuck, I should have said: those knobs I sent you, one's metric, one's imperial. That'll fuck the whole thing.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, Gives me some things to try.

[NickS]

I’m having a nightmare with the simplest of circuits - I may just have the pots reversed, but any wiring is a black art to me.

Sorry for the terrible picture, but I’ve got the guitar wired up as below and I’m getting sound, but the volume pot doesn’t go all the way off and the tone pot does nothing at all from what I can hear.

114E94BF-E815-43D5-95CE-7D32827E8452.jpeg

Yeah, as per the pic Sunshiner put up, the wire between the two pots needs to go to the middle tag of the tone pot, and that tag and the tag it's wired to on the volume pot need to be soldered to earth/ground e.g./i.e. the case of the pot.

[NickD]

Thanks Nick - that was essentially the issue. I removed that wire, soldered the tags to ground and it works a treat now.

[plopswagon]

the case of the pot.

Isn’t that an Agatha Christie book?

[NickD]

the case of the pot.

Isn’t that an Agatha Christie book?

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