got a gig tomorrow but...

[boilingTheDead]

my volume pots dont go all the way to 0, there is always 10% volume... My bass has a passive Jazz style layout: 2 vol, 1 tone. tone works as intended. Is there an easy fix for it? or better ignore it? I got no tuner pedal or mute on the amp in reach btw.

 

[byacey]

Did it work properly before?

 

[StevewiththePbass]

Check for loose/detached wires? I had a P bass that did this once upon a time. one of the tone pot wires had come loose and was touching something else in such a way that none of the knobs worked. full volume all the time. Worth a quick check...

 

[Turnaround]

Try cleaning the pots using a contact cleaner such as DeoxIT D5.

 

[MrKpawz]

Does taking the volume cap off allow you to further rotate the pot to 0% volume?

 

[iiipopes]

I would be more concerned if the bass did not come up to full volume. All the above: clean it, replace pots as necessary after cleaning and checking for loose wires and bad grounds.

 

[boilingTheDead]

the input jack was loose. don't know how that ccould have caused it, but it works perfectly now.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Some manufacturers don’t run an additional ground wire to the potentiometers and the output jack. It’s fine until something starts to come loose as you’ve seen. Did you hold the output on the inside when you tightened the nut up? If not you might make sure the wires aren’t twisted inside from the jack rotating. That said, glad it was an easy fix!

 

[boilingTheDead]

Yes, of course.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Yes, of course.

Hope I didn’t seem like I was talking down to you. I wasn’t. You may already know all that and if you do, then figure it’s there for someone in the future reading the thread.

 

[Bob_Ross]

I got no tuner pedal or mute on the amp in reach btw.

At the risk of coming across as a Get Off My Lawn/Old Man Yells At Cloud kinda guy, it's worth noting that when I was a young kid first gigging on electric bass I not only didn't have a tuner pedal or mute on the amp, I also didn't even know that I could turn the volume all the way down on the bass!

So for those times when I didn't want to make a sound I had to not play.

Apparently it's a lost art.

 

[boilingTheDead]

At the risk of coming across as a Get Off My Lawn/Old Man Yells At Cloud kinda guy, it's worth noting that when I was a young kid first gigging on electric bass I not only didn't have a tuner pedal or mute on the amp, I also didn't even know that I could turn the volume all the way down on the bass!

So for those times when I didn't want to make a sound I had to not play.

Apparently it's a lost art.

haha love that story! I don't see how anyone could not even try one of the obvious knobs of the instrument, I mean its 100% intuitive.