New active eq, p up too hot?

Grumry

Grumry

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#1
I recently replaced the old eq and pots in my water damaged Craigslist sub4 with a cheap Belcat 2 band eq courtesy of China.
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It actually sounds great when I leave the eq flat, or even boost the bass a hair, but if I go past that sweet spot it distorts the output. (I've tested this through rack preamps, my combo amp and my interface, the distortion comes from the bass)

I can pull my volume knob back to about half before it cleans up the signal, and by then the tone starts to suffer. I've lowered the pickup as far as possible and don't want my action any higher.

Is there an easy fix to lower the output of my pickup going to the volume pot? Is there a pad of sorts I can solder in front of it, or a higher resistance volume pot?

If it helps to know, I removed the blend pot from in front of the volume since I only have one pickup and 3 holes (volume/bass/treble).

I'm fairly uneducated in the electronics department so go easy on me. Thanks.
 
#5
you can also try this but its just a shot in the dark. a lot of cheap preamps don't even put in a resistor at the output to set the impedance. since its epoxy sealed you can't troubleshoot the circuit. you can put a 50K resistor from signal to ground to see if it helps
 
#6
Have a used set of Alembic PUs I wanted to test as the seller was not sure if they worked. Got a Belcat just to try and it's sounds amazing. No need for upgrade. Was really apprehensive as a lot of stuff I got recently was garbage but these are hands down great.
 
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