SCSD Question...(my controls seem backwards).

[glocke]

Did you buy it new Greg. It's possible a previous owner could have switched them.

Yup..brand new from Bass Central around 2008.

I had always thought the controls seemed backwards to what they should be, but I never followed up largely due to free time issues and the fact that I just dialed things in to get a sound I liked and left it that way.

[glocke]

Did you buy it new Greg. It's possible a previous owner could have switched them.

actually it was easy..they both pulled out with a gentle tug and went back in just as easily...whew...tone controls work as they should now.

[hieronymous]

Glad you got that all sorted out - that would drive me nuts! Wonder how they got switched - I find it hard to believe that it left the Mothership that way.

[glocke]

Glad you got that all sorted out - that would drive me nuts! Wonder how they got switched - I find it hard to believe that it left the Mothership that way.

Mica can chime in I guess but yeah Im pretty sure it did.  The bass was brought brand new in 2008 from bass central.  I can't imagine someone there going in and messing around with things.

Shit happens I guess...one could argue that with something this expensive something that simple shouldn't have happened, but than again it took me almost ten years to finally realize something really was up.  I swear though I thought I was crazy or just too high.  I must have looked at that photo in Daves sticky over a dozen times the past decade and went "huh?"....

[edwin]

I would have done such a thing as to my mind, the pan pot is now backwards. Clockwise=treble, anticlockwise=bass. But that's just me.

[glocke]

I would have done such a thing as to my mind, the pan pot is now backwards. Clockwise=treble, anticlockwise=bass. But that's just me.

Obviously you are a person who is free of O.C.D.     

[lbpesq]

Can't you just set the pan knob so the neck pickup is on, then loosen the knob and move it so the white line points toward the neck?  That way the clockwise/counterclockwise issue is irrelevant.  Turn it so the white line points at the neck and get the neck pickup.  Turn the knob so the white line points toward the bridge and the bridge pickup will be on.

Bill, tgo

[mica]

Hi! We make mistakes sometimes - regardless of expense, it's just humans here. Glad you got the pickup leads switched and all sorted out and sorry if this caused you stress for the past decade.

[glocke]

Hi! We make mistakes sometimes - regardless of expense, it's just humans here. Glad you got the pickup leads switched and all sorted out and sorry if this caused you stress for the past decade.

haha..no worries.  not so much stress, it was more of "am i crazy?" thing.  all good..thanks Mica!

[edwin]

I would have done such a thing as to my mind, the pan pot is now backwards. Clockwise=treble, anticlockwise=bass. But that's just me.

Obviously you are a person who is free of O.C.D.     

You mean CDO. Gotta keep those letters in alphabetical order.

[jazzyvee]

I had a similar incident when I bought a used elan. Eventually i managed to get everything in the right place and the controls doing the right and expected thing. I couldn't have survived a decade with things they were on my bass. I think when I asked the seller he told me things were setup like this when he got it from the previous owner. I expect someone previously changed things round to match their own specific needs but it was great to have things working logically.
Enjoy your bass again. :-)

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