It's the suck switch. For sure. The same thing happened with my m-85. Even when it's not engaged it can suck all the tone out of the bridge pickup.
O.k., I only can give you some advise here. It's great that you admit where your limits are. That helps.Having never soldered anything, Im a bit apprehensive about doing this myself....
Finally, if it is a blown pot how do I access them? It seems like it would be pretty difficult to get it out and back in.
"Is that a transformer!?!! I've never seen that before, why is that there" - Tech shrugged shoulders - Me
And especially read mgods post there (post #12): http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/sh...Gurus-(Long)&p=1543782&viewfull=1#post1543782
Ralf
Not sure why you want to do a "complete rewiring"? Just take the choke out and connect the two cables I would say. But yes, if you speak "complete rewiring" and mean taking out the harness, cleaning the pots,...that is a multiple hour work! I would guess even more than 2 hours! Mind all needs to go through the F-holes!Does 1-2 hours of labor from a luthier sound about right for this kind of job (complete rewiring)?
I am no bass expert but I doubt there is anything else beyond that choke and the switch in that bass. Unfortunately we don't have any photos of the choke and the connected bridge pickup from wisconsindead, so don't even know what he has in the bridge pickup cavity. We would need to see which wires are in there and which wires go to the choke and which wires go to the pickup. Who knows if there were modifications done in the past? So we can propose many things but without knowing what is going on in the bass of wisconsindead it is difficult or impossible...That would surely bypass the choke which might sound great. I think there are other resistors and things in the circuit, though, right?