kleinenenten
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Thanks for the detailed reply! I'll be honest - pretty much all of that is over my head. I can kind of solder, but I don't get the actual implications of what I'm doing. I just need the diagram and step by step stuff. Hence why I'm not messing with any of it! The second pot (farther away from the switch) does have a capacitor on it, so I DO think it WAS a tone pot at some point. But not anymore!I'm going to be honest, I can't see in those pics super well... I don't really know how you can mess up the volumes like that with a switch.
If there wasn't a switch, it would be like that because they might have been wired "normally" with terminal 1 as the signal from the pickup to the pot, 2 as the output from the pot and 3 as ground. This sends all signal to ground when the pot is minimized so each wired like this would function as parallel master volumes, and a simple fix could be switching what potentiometer terminals function as input and output. If you wire so that terminal 1 is the output, 2 is the signal from pickup and 3 is still ground, it will rather move the wiper from sending the pickup signal to the pot output and ground. As long as the ground is the same it would function as normal but leave the knobs to their respective pickups rather than sending all signal to ground when either is turned all the way down.
That might be worth a shot but again I don't think that's the issue if there is a switch, nor can I identify why you would just want 2 volumes if you have a switch. It almost sounds more like they just wired a tone pot to ground without a capacitor? Regardless, that's how you can foolproof the independent volumes if you want, but it also might be worth getting your buddy to put a tone knob in there with one volume.
The eventual goal will be a single volume and a tone pot, as that's the standard and what I'm used to. But seeing as I run both on maximum a vast majority of the time, I'm in no rush. I'll spend that cash on some other more pertinent things first!
Thanks again for the help!