Recent content by jmalash

What's the difference between a neck/mid duckbucker and a bridge duckbucker? Can I use a bridge in the middle?

I took the advice of some of you players and replaced the 250K volume pot in my Zion with a 500K pot. Remarkable difference! I'm not so quick to change out the previously-muddy-sounding JB now. Should I do the same for the tone push/pull pot?

The green guitar to the left is the instrument in question. It's a Zion Classic Maple: maple top, laminated to basswood back, hard rock maple neck, ebony fingerboard, Kahler Steeler Floyd Rose Licensed locking tremelo, Zion stock (Bill Lawrence designed?) stacked pickups in the neck and middle...

I've had a JB in my guitar for a couple months now and still heavy-sigh concerning it's tone. To my ear, the thing sounds too creamy and mid-heavy. I want crisper mids and a little more high end. Would a Pearly Gates be the answer to my conundrum? :scratchch

I have a Zion Classic Maple with an ebony fret board, basswood body, and quilted maple top. After some experimentation, I think I've settled on the JB in my bridge. I thought it sounded bottom heavy and round at first, so I tried a lighter gauge string set, 10-46 from 10-52, and had a friend...

I sorta kinda like my new JB, but it sounds a little too round, dark, bottom-mid heavy to my ear. What would be a good, splittable, f-spaced alternative that's a tad brighter and lighter than the JB?

I have a Zion classic maple, HSS configuration. I replaced the original Zion Humbucker with a Duncan JB TB4 and am wanting to replace the Zion, stacked single coils. There's a night-and-day difference between the JB and Zions in output and tone. Shopping by sound-bytes on this site, I like the...