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Pre-Wired Passive Harness

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DESCRIPTION

These passive wiring harness are a great replacement for your current bass's passive wiring harness or as a passive replacement for a preamp.

Our harnesses use quality 250k Noble® brand pots, multi-strand wire, Sprague® "Orange Drop" .047 capacitors, and a Switchcraft® jack (stereo or mono, depending on availability).

Harnesses are professionally wired in the Fat Bass Tone shop.

All of our passive harnesses are now pre-wired using solderless connectors. This means that you should be able to install the harness without any soldering. A mini flathead screwdriver is included to allow you to screw down the terminals on to the necessary wires.  Read more here.
(*If you are installing into a bass with a barrel jack, you may need to solder a couple connections)

M/N style taper used on harnesses that use a Blend pot.  This taper has no volume loss at center detente.

Loaded Jazz Plates are available for 3 knob configurations.

Pre-wired harnesses featuring a StellarTone ToneStyler are also available.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do you connect the DiMarzio 60’s pickups to a pre-wired passive harness that uses solderless connectors?

On DiMarzio 60's pickups, specifically - Pickup wires bare and black are ground, white is signal (hot). Pickup grounds can go to connector labeled pickup ground in the diagram. The other dedicated ground block can be for your bridge ground wire, and any additional ground wires you may happen to have.

Will the Volume-Tone Prewired Passive Harness fit in the electrics cavity of a Mustang bass?

Yes.

Can the Pre-wired passive harness be wired for lefty basses?

Some left handed instruments have controls that turn anti-clockwise for ‘more’, while other lefty instruments are wired the normal way. The harness sold on FBT can only be wired the normal way due to the right hand taper of the pots we use. You would want to seek out ‘left hand taper’ pots for them to be effectively wired lefty.



LAYOUTS

1 Pickup: Volume - Tone

2 Pickup: Volume - Volume - Tone

2 Pickup: Volume - Blend - Tone

2 Pickup: Volume -Volume - Tone - Tone

2 Pickup: Volume - Blend - Tone - Tone

2 Pickup: Volume/Tone Stack - Blend

2 Pickup: Volume/Tone Stack - Volume/Tone Stack



Customer Reviews

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Chuck E.
J bass VBT controls

Easy install - quite quick, actually. Everything fit perfectly and sounds great.

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John D.
Passive V/T Stack, V/T Stack harness

I've been using FBT harnesses for quite awhile now, and have no problem soldering (actually enjoy it). But these new harnesses are awesome. I replaced the factory harness with the 3 way switch on a Tony Franklin fretless today with the two V/T stacks using the harness and had the bass back up and playing in about an hour including installing a different neck pickup. Bass sounds great, nice change- and the harness was extremely well crafted with wire lengths for ground points, pickup leads and jack. Thanks! You guys rock.

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Bryan P.
VBT Harness AAA+++

Replaced my VVT setup in two basses with a VBT layout. Installation was a breeze. Top level controller components and stellar service!

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Bryan P.
Passive Harness AAAAA+

Replaced my VVT setup in two basses with a VBT layout. Installation was a breeze. Top level controller components and stellar service!

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Joji I.
EASY PEEZY

Easy to install. Maybe make the instruction more clearer like which wire goes where. The harness itself is great and sounds amazing

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