Travis Posted April 8 Posted April 8 Listened to that on my commute this morning. Cool story. Made me wonder if that guitar would change my mind on the JB. Tried many times to like that pickup and it just never did it for me. 1 Quote
RobB Posted April 8 Posted April 8 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Travis said: Made me wonder if that guitar would change my mind on the JB. Tried many times to like that pickup and it just never did it for me. The JB is such an iconic (and much copied) pickup. They don't work in every guitar, but sometimes you luck upon the magic combo. My Rhoads has the ubiquitous, JB/Jazz combo, and sounds hellacious. They key to the JB, IME, is to find the, "fine line between clever and stupid." Too close to the strings and it can be too loud/harsh. Too low and it ouputs too airy. I find a medium height and polepieces adjusted like Fender SCs works for my purposes. Edited April 8 by RobB 3 Quote
Jeff R Posted April 9 Posted April 9 FMIC (Charvel) uses JBs in the bridge position of their production MIA and MIM Jakes. Jake, however, prefers a custom-wound 12-pole-screw humbucker, loosely based on the original Duncan Holdsworth models he used throughout his Ozzy and Badlands days 30+ years ago. It is a much different pickup from both the current JB or the current "Metal Fatigue" Holdsworth variant. The pickguard below ships to him next week. It has Jake's preferred bridge pickup plus some experimental "robintrowery" S-style pickups to see how he likes them compared to his longtime go-to Dimarzio SDS-1s. The new singles are A5 and overwound to keep up with the bridge pickup output-wise. Neck is around 9.5k, middle around 9.2k and RWRP. Bridge + middle auto-coil-splits the bridge H. The MV is a 500K to benefit the bridge H, but there are 470K resistors between the N and M pickups so they "see" a 250K pot. 2 Quote
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