ampeg ada 4 wiring diagram

[dzordz]

Hello!
I need wiring diagram for ampeg ada 4 (japan reissue).
Maybe someone can help me?

[dzordz]

Hello again.
it can be pic of existing wiring from bass.
regards.

[Dave W]

I'm not aware of anyone else here having one. It's a recent bass, Ampeg should have the schematic available.

[dzordz]

of course.
A few days a go i wrote to ampeg,and still wait...

[Rob]

Isn't that a dual cored humbucker?
If so you might find a diagram on Seymoure Duncan's site.  Or try some Kent Armstrong forums.
http://www.kentarmstrong.com/pages/products.html

[Pilgrim]

of course.
A few days a go i wrote to ampeg,and still wait...

Suggest you check online rather than waiting for snail mail.....

[jumbodbassman]

is the ada the lucite bass.   I f so let me know i have a japanese first series reissue with the  interchangeable pups

[Aussie Mark]

I'm not aware of anyone else here having one.

I own one, and use it in my Stones tribute band.  I have a wiring diagram at home somewhere, but am in the middle of moving house so it might take me a little while to find it.  Will see what I can dig up.

I do know that the wiring of the "tone" control is the same as the original Dan Armstrong model - ie. there is a center position, and from there, the control is a blend of the two coils contained in the pickup. I've had mine modified though - it just has a straight tone control now, and the bright switch has been disabled.  I also had Kent Armstrong make me a true humbucking pickup for this bass as well, as I didn't like the tone of either the "Deep Bass" or "Bright Bass" interchangeable pickups that came with it as standard.

[Aussie Mark]

Here's the original schematic for the bass, which doesn't have the bright switch that the reissues have ....



And there is also this document .... http://www.unofficialampeg.com/pdfs/da.pdf

[jumbodbassman]

tell me more about the changs you made and the other pickup.

[Aussie Mark]

tell me more about the changs you made and the other pickup.

I just had the split coil tone pot replaced with a conventional tone pot.  So, instead of being centred with each direction bringing in more of each pickup coil, it just rolls off like a P bass tone control.  The bright toggle switch (or whatever it's supposed to do) was taken out of the circuit entirely.  I also had my tech shield the wiring cavity a lot better than it was originally - but it still has more 50 cycle hum than any other bass I own.

Regarding the pickup, I emailed Kent Armstrong and asked him if he could make me a proper humbucker that could be plugged in and out like the other 2 interchangeable pickups (two coil DB and BB) that come standard with the ADA4 - after some delay and tooing and froing (Kent is not the best person I've encountered when it comes to email communication) I sent payment to his business in the UK, and he made the pickup and posted it to me.  Off the top of the head I think he charged me $120 for the pickup - it's got the same 3 prongs and thumbscrew thread as the standard pickups, so it slots straight in and out into the pickup rout, just like the other modular pickups.

I love the neck and ergonomics of the ADA4 - but I wish it just had a meat and potatoes P bass pickup in it instead of the unusual configuration it comes with.