Gretsch style "mud switch"

[fender3x]

Makes sense to me! Also caps are cheap and easy to swap.

As to the switch on the back. I am sure it could be done with a sliding switch. On one of my first mods I did it with micro-switches on a G&L bass. On some basses G&L adds what players call an OMG cap that makes the pickup sound really boomy. Some people really like it, others don't. I didn't want to mess up the front of the bass, but I wanted to be able to turn them on and off. So I put the switches in an unused part of the control cavity, and recessed them so they couldn't be flipped accidentally. It worked like a charm, and is great for a setting that you want to be able to adjust, but that you don't need to adjust while you are playing.



Not very pretty, but I figured it was on the back ;-)

[EsquireEsque]

Makes sense to me! Also caps are cheap and easy to swap.

As to the switch on the back. I am sure it could be done with a sliding switch. On one of my first mods I did it with micro-switches on a G&L bass. On some basses G&L adds what players call an OMG cap that makes the pickup sound really boomy. Some people really like it, others don't. I didn't want to mess up the front of the bass, but I wanted to be able to turn them on and off. So I put the switches in an unused part of the control cavity, and recessed them so they couldn't be flipped accidentally. It worked like a charm, and is great for a setting that you want to be able to adjust, but that you don't need to adjust while you are playing.



Not very pretty, but I figured it was on the back ;-)

.... and I thought it was my idea!

But that's pretty much what I was thinking - but for a sliding switch.

I've just come across a video where someone went to the trouble of switching pots so the difference could be heard.... I'm not sure it's any different from just using caps.....

So now it's just either a straight lead to the out put or by way of a switch with a cap....

Probably makes sense to go with the former but to "prep" for the latter.....