EB-0 wiring question

[ilan]

What does the .01 µF capacitor do?

[Dave W]

It shunts all the highs to ground.

Didn't we discuss this before? You were going to remove it from your EB-0L after I mentioned it, then you found out it had already been removed. Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

[ilan]

It shunts all the highs to ground.

Didn't we discuss this before? You were going to remove it from your EB-0L after I mentioned it, then you found out it had already been removed. Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

Actually twice! And I forgot about both.

The first time was in 2018 - that was before I even bought the EB-0L, I just made a suggestion to use a treble-bleed cap in EB's a-la Rickenbacker.

The best easy mod to the stock wiring is to remove the .010 cap which bleeds most of the treble to ground. It doesn't stop the distortion but it helps the frequency response.

The next year I bought the bass, and on March 2019 you wrote this -

Check the wiring and note the second illustration here. I remove the .01 cap, it shunts highs to ground.

Can't attribute this to long Covid as I never had the virus. I guess I'm just getting old.

BTW that Gibson has become my go-to bass. At home this is the bass I'll play about 80% of the time.

[amptech]

It's perfectly simple:
Rickenbacker: remove stuff that cuts bass
Gibson: remove stuff that cuts treble
Fender: remove

[morrow]

I'm trying to deaden the strings on a Dano DC  bass so I'm trying to put as much time on that as possible . For the stuff I have to do they sound great with dead roundwound strings . I have a Longhorn with twenty four year old strings , I want the DC to sound like that .
However my favourite bass to play is that little Gibson DC Tribute thing . And I've been keeping fresh rounds on it ( fresh for me is changing strings after nine or ten months) I've been buying Gibson BriteWires for it . I really love that little Gibson .

[uwe]

"I have a Longhorn with twenty four year old strings , I want the DC to sound like that."

[Pilgrim]

I'm trying to deaden the strings on a Dano DC  bass so I'm trying to put as much time on that as possible . For the stuff I have to do they sound great with dead roundwound strings . I have a Longhorn with twenty four year old strings , I want the DC to sound like that .
However my favourite bass to play is that little Gibson DC Tribute thing . And I've been keeping fresh rounds on it ( fresh for me is changing strings after nine or ten months) I've been buying Gibson BriteWires for it . I really love that little Gibson .

You'll get there. You'd like my 1963 Precision with the strings installed in 1972, 50 years ago.

[ilan]

You'd like my 1963 Precision with the strings installed in 1972, 50 years ago.

But first get your Tetanus Toxoid injection 

[Pilgrim]

But first get your Tetanus Toxoid injection 

Those are all GOOD germs!  I made them myownself! 

[morrow]

Exactly .

[ilan]

Those are all GOOD germs!

It's bacteria.

[Pilgrim]

It's bacteria.

And as we persons of science know, there are both beneficial bacteria and pathogenic bacteria. I assure you that the collection on my strings has been carefully curated to consist of only beneficial bacteria.   

[Dave W]

It's perfectly simple:
Rickenbacker: remove stuff that cuts bass
Gibson: remove stuff that cuts treble
Fender: remove

[ilan]

It shunts all the highs to ground.

So what does the tone control do?

[Pilgrim]

So what does the tone control do?

I thought about that when i filled the hole in my '64 EB-0 with an appropriate mudbucker.  I decided a tone control had no reason to exist on an EB-0 with a mudbucker and Dimarzio Model 1....so I used both pot holes for separate volume controls.  Who needs to cut highs on either of those pickups???