Jazz Bass Wiring - How to wire a Fender Jazz Bass
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- In this video we show you how to wire a Fender Jazz Bass, no thrills, no shrills, simple standard Jazz bass wiring.
We discuss the components involved, tinning, grounding and connecting the jack, all into a jazz bass control plate.
Using our Jazz bass wiring kit
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"Sorry... we call it soadahh ear in the UK" lol Thats so awesome man. This is one of the best soldering videos out here! Thank you from New Yawk
This video is already the best thing I've stumbled on this year. I've got a Gibson LP laying around all stripped for 2+ years. After 2 failed soldering attempts I just gave up. This video forces me to give it another go. The curse is broken
I hope you got it working again man! Thanks for watching.
I was saving every wiring and soldering video I could find before attempting this on my bass. I stopped watching videos after seeing this. It’s exactly what I needed and explained very clearly. This is the only video I’m saving for my bass maintenance playlist. Thanks
Excellent Video. I've been saying SOL-DER since my dad taught me how to at age 10, now 70+ and still working in electronics. Broadcast engineer for 45 + years and I'm always correcting the young ones in the industry who say SOD-DER - hahaha. Your video was well planned out and I liked the fact that you could see every aspect of the project. Thank you for the time and effort you put into it. - Vince.
I already did a Stratocaster with the help of your video. Now I'm gonna rewire a Squier Jazz Bass with upgraded components. The most clean and well described videos I've ever seen on wiring instruments. Thank You!
Thank you so much for this!! Just redid my bass after many years of neglect. NOTE TO LEFTIES! You can follow this but just flip horizontally, I did that and controls came out exactly how they used to be.
Brings back memories of re wiring my lefty Strat watching right handed videos… instant headache lol!
I really appreciate your patience taking us through every step here.
Very clear, skipping nothing. Thanks very much :)
This has to be the best work ever done on a jazz bass.! Love it#
Just purchased from you all components to redo my jazz, looking forward to the postman’s delivery so I can follow this video. You make it look so easy 👍🏻
Update jazz electrics sorted looks and sounds the dogs dodars. Your video made things sooo much easier 👍🏻quick delivery of parts from your website so “double dogs dodars”
Thanks for your order and glad you're happy with it. Thanks for watching, have a great weekend!
Very clear explanation. Nice and neat work. Thank you
You are welcome!
Such a tidy job!
Thank you for taking your time to share this with us.
Thanks for this - I just finished a complete pick-up and control replacement on my bass, following along with the video - really clear and helpful
You are a big polla for repair it, I will make the same with my jazz bass, my bass have a terrible noise when I connect to my ampli, thanks man you’re great
I realized by this video that my Jazz was wired wrong. I corrected it and it sounds a bit cleaner and fuller. Thank you!!
This was awesome, very useful!
To anyone doing this on an early 60s Fender bass, just be aware the body cavity route can be super narrow, and it can rub against those side grounds... ;-)
(Shame I can't post pics...)
Excellent - good workmanship & high standards for us all to adopt. I FINALLY realise why cloth-insulated wire is so useful! 😊.
Beautiful. My Jazz bass came stock with split pots. Of course one of them broke. This video will prove helpful. Thank Tchik Guitars for sending me.
best tutorial on how to do this ever,been wanting to wire my own since I got my jb and the tone pot is not working,subbed!
Just followed your instruction and got my jazz bass harness together. I will connect the bridge and pups tomorrow and update on if I messed it up or not
Helped assure me I was reading the wiring schematics correctly and also appreciated the solder tips, thanks!
good tutorial vedio i like it. why you did not connect to the input of pick up both common and the ground?
from philippines im a begginer.
i figured out how to fix my wiring just by the diagram before even the video starts. evry helpful, thanks
ah good stuff saves you time that does!
That's a super clean job there 👍, I'm about to change the pots and wiring on my jazz tonight.
thank you sooo much! had some 77 j bass trouble and decided to re-solder the whole thing.
Nice job! I clean the back of the pots and can scratch them a bit to enhance adhesion. Also, can put on a bit of flux to enhance flow and no "blob" effect.
Thanks Again!! 1st you helped me wire my Precision, now you've helped me with my Jazz, Thank-You very much for posting this, Basses sound great!!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Ran your clip while i wired up my J Bass build. Thanks again
I prefer linear pots for volume. Nice video!!!
This is the ONLY video you need to get it DONE! - Thank You!
Great Lesson, I have a question, I am upgrading my 78 Fender Jazz with Seymour Duncan Weather report passive pickups the neck pickup is not as hot as the bridge pickup they came on had a black and yellow wires and the other had black and red wires? I'm am planning on re doing the wires exactly like your video how would you know where the black wire should go or if it matters? Thanks from Minneapolis just Subbed as well as well
Thank you for this
Really appreciate
Could you please do a video on how to wire the pickups to it
Best video in its kind..
Very clean , Well done mate..
I really like that roll of tape assistant 👍
Best explained videos on TH-cam🙏🏻
Wow, thanks!
Amazing video and description of the process! I just followed this video, step by step (pausing as needed) , and just assembled my JB wiring kit so easily. Just curious, your linked diagram mentions not needing to run the ground from pot to pot if you're using the jazz bass metal plate, but you don't mention that in the video. Is that really the case? You also don't mention where to attach the bridge ground in the video, but it's in the diagram you linked. Regardless, THANK YOU for this video. I'm a complete newbie to soldering, but you gave so many tips it was so easy. I never could have done this without it!
Excellent. Crystal clear.
Great video bro! I would like to ask if this also applicable for humbucker bass pickups as well?
Very Very nice clean wiring. Very helpful thank you
Your an absolute champion for this video. I need to redo my whole shit squire jbass wiring as it's cheap quality.
Do it!
Such neat wiring, no slop. Not like the rat's nest that lives inside my Fender. Excellent!
Yeah, I got a bass given to me that had a massive rats nets of the cheapest plastic coated wire ans it was all full of cold solder joints and general nastiness inside and I hate the pots aren't on a plate or in a straight line like this one is. It's been an absolute bear to disassemble and re-wire to the point that I am bored with working on the bass and will probably sell it when I get done rewiring it. I almost wanna say it wasn't really done correctly from the factory because whoever was tasked with wiring it gave up on trying to get it done neatly
Thanks so much! You saved me money and headache.
no worries glad you found it useful!
Great video. It's clear enough that I've made the leap to order a pack and do this. For the grounding wire you mentioned briefly that it could be done with the cloth wire provided in the pack. Does this have to be one continual wire like you've done here or because of the cloth you do seperate wires between each pot?
So can't wait to do this project!!🗽🛸
Would love to see a P/J combo. Thanks for the great video!
Using this but replacing pickups with a mm and p pickup, thanks
Very clean and good your the best sir.
Oh...this is very, very helpful. Exactly what I needed. Thank you.
Very helpfull ❤
Wonderful
Thank you 🙏
Awesome Instructions! Great Work! Thanks
Thanks man hope it helps
I knew my jazz base was wired incorrectly.
You made it right!
bass
Excellent, as ever! Just makes me want to re-wire everything….!😂😂🎸🎸🍷🍷
Thank you for posting and the explanation(s). I appreciate how clean the work was and you attention to detail. What gauge was the cloth wire?
Great videos. Could you please do one on wiring an Explorer. 2 v 1 tone.
This video will never age!
i never would have thought to solder to to the side of the pot, thanks for the idea
That was a great video, and a very tidy job. Well done!!
I agree with Henry Ortiz --- An outstanding video.
What a beautiful, neat job! 👍🏻
Many thanks sir, hope you found it helpful!
Thank you for doing this!
One question- Do you have to be careful heating the pots with the solder iron, can you fry the internal components
Thanks sooooo much you safe my bass 💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍👍
I've had trouble getting my pots to heat up. What temperature do you have your iron set at? It looks like it heats up to receive the solder very fast.
Normally 350 degrees C. It depends on your solder too, not just the iron (different solder can have different melting temperatures)
Thanks for this super clear video. Though I seem to have one problem: both my pickups got TWO wires going to the pots...
Me too, that's why I'm here. Not exactly sure, but it seems that it might be an extra ground from the pickup sheilding
Great video ! Got me ready to tackle iron mine 🎸😁
What temperature did you set your soldering iron?and what gauge solder
On point. Super clean work!
Great tutorial, have you done the wiring for a pre '62 Jazz bass with 2 concentric pots? I want to understand some comments about adding resistors. Thank you!
do you sell the capacitors we see you installing in your videos
You’ve saved my bass! Thank you
Excellent tutorial. Thank you brother.
brilliant at last. I bought 20 cts pots and the range went from 201 to 286. Would you explain the differnce between audi and linear and what is the benefit of no load. Please?
Hi wow that is quite a range, though most CTS pots are made to 20% tolerance. The basic differences are outlined here: www.sixstringsupplies.co.uk/audio-or-linear-pots
Great video for detail.
Question: can you do almost the same thing with a single active pickup?
Six String Supplies stuff seems to be really good quality. I stripped the electrics out of an 1990s Epiphone Les Paul and they looked very cheap and low quality compared to the rig from these guys that replaced it all.
Also, they don't charge the earth, either (no pun intended). I shopped around and good ol' Six String Supplies offered the best quality at the best prices AND they gave me a quick call on my mobile before dispatching my '50s style wiring harness to confirm my preferences.
How many companies do THAT!?
good afternoon. what would happen if I used a pot less than 250 k? thanks. your video is very helpful.
Can you do a video wiring a Jazz Bass similar to a Rickenbacker bass?
I'm primarily interested in the dual output jacks feature.
I'm thinking of modifying a Jazz but without a toggle switch.
Many thanks.
Really nice work. Thank you for your clarity.
Surely the pots are ground together by the metal plate right ?
Malcolm Hardwick yes they are - no need to connect the pots together if using a quality metal control plate. I just do it out of habit...
very nice job
How would this be different if I were to use a stereo jack instead of a mono jack? I'm trying to have each pickup go to separate amps. Would I need a second tone knob?
My jazz bass had the capacitor solder to the middle nug on the tone pod. Is that ok?
Just a question. My pickup wires are colored red and blue. I wonder which one's the ground? Btw, great teaching! I'm excited to start working on my bass guitar. Will replace the old rusty pots and wires. :)
Hi there, is the video mirrored I wonder why my connections are all on the other side of the controls. How can that be?
Would this be the same as a p/j combo, or would that be different? Great video by the way!
Yup! Same thing!
Same thing. I just completed mine.
Best Video on youtube? What wire gauge would you recommend? Tx!
@SixStringSupplies
For a Lefty Jazz bass, would I just do the wiring backwards and do I need to get pots for a lefty as well???
Very clean job by the way :3
Beautiful work.
Do the pots need to be solid shafts? or are split shafts good as well?
You can use either as long as you have the control knobs to fit split shaft 👍
Hopefully not a silly question. When you connected ground wire using the tin copper covered in the rubber tubing, is that one continuous piece of tin copper soldered onto all three pots? Or is it two pieces of tin copper cut and then soldered to the three pots? Cheers.
it doesn't matter, you can have a 'ground' solder behind each pot, make sure they are all connected
Thanks for this. How powerful (wattage) is your soldering iron?
Thanks. It’s 70w.
Its really awesome and neat I 💕 the work.
I've read/heard that, with a metal control plate, it is not necessary to also run a ground wire between the pots and the ground of the output jack. The control plate serves the same purpose as that ground wire. Is this true?
it's true, but if you're pot is loose, you will be losing the ground on that pot and it will make it sound scratchy.
Thank you, very succinct and professional
Adding a question: what does it affect if there's no wire grounding between the pots and the ground connector on the output jack?
there should be a ground on the pots and and the output jack's sleeve, that's how volume works and the tone cap to the ground is to shunt highs to the ground
On my Squire Modified Jazz Bass the Capacitor is solder to the middle of the pot tone control. Does it matter
very good thanks.
Hi! Can I please ask if there’s a certain wattage in my soldering iron I need for this project? I’ve had 25 watts in the past and they were horrible. Can you recommend a good watt for this
25w should be ok bits it’s the ideal minimum. Normally I’d say you want a min of 40w
Could you help me please?
How should I wire a second tone control in such a way that a volume and a tone to be for one pickup and the others to be for the other pickup but without influence of one set of pickup/volume/tone to the other?
I'm wondering this as well. I'm building a pj bass and it makes sense to have a separate volume and tone pot for the the bridge pickup
Hello, I´m replacing all my Maya jazz Bass electronics and pickups and the holes between pickups and the pot area is very narrow. Can I remove the original pickup cables (those ones soldered to the pickup surface) and put another narrower ones? Thanks, I like your videos!!
I got an old jazz bass today that someone else tried to fix but failed. Neck volume pot is a 500k and the other 2 pots are 250k, could this prevent the circuit from working
do you really need to ground all the pots together considering they are all connected the steel control plate?
Nope - but no harm in re-enforcing the ground connection