Recent content by Rex_Rocker

Recorded a quick clip of my JB equipped guitars. I like the palm-mutes on the Ant better, but I kinda like the roar the chords have in the Plain Jane JB.

I used to have a set of BW's in the LTD in my avatar. Man, I really miss having an LTD. The Thin U neck profile is killer.

Yeah, I get ya. Ordering a BKP off the UK here costs about as much as ordering a Custom Shop Duncan.

To me, it is brighter and more attacky. So yes, I suppose. But it's also not as focused in the high mids as the JB, so maybe that's what's coming across as harsh to you from the JB. Personally, I don't find either harsh, but I do prefer the JB. If anything, I find the JB the smoother of the two...

The Custom 5 is brighter than the JB. I don't find the JB to have a lot of high-end, personally, but if you still find it problematic, what I would suggest is maybe using 250K pots to smooth it out a little. Or change the magnet to A2 if you already have the JB. Or maybe look into the RTM if...

What a killer guitar.

Depends on what kind of wiring you intend to have. Do you have a master volume and a master tone and that's it? Or two tones? Or two volumes? I have a friend who just rewired his HSS Strat with all 250K pots, but a no-load tone for the bridge, so in the end, the bridge pickup sees the same...

I agree. I don't think the JB is all that bright to begin with. I mentioned a few posts ago that once you start comparing it to most of the rest of the Duncan humbucker lineup, the highs are actually pretty rolled off by comparison. So the fact that the polished magnet and whatever other...

Sorry to beat on a dead horse, but I was playing my Les Pauls back to back today. One with the standard JB, one with the CS Antiquity JB, and there's not much to it. Yes, I like the CS JB better, but not in a way that I know it's rational. If you think the standard JB is worse because it's...

On a related note, I've never found the contemporary JBs' treble to be problematic, personally. My hot take, I suppose, is that if anything, the treble is pretty rolled off if you start comparing to the Custom, Custom 5, Distortion, Nazgul, Dimebucker, '59B, WLH, PG, etc., and like 80-90% of the...

I don't have a JBJ, but I do have the next best thing, I suppose. An Antiquity. My experience with the Ant vs the standard JB is exactly the same as the first video and the video I posted. That being said, I like the regular production JB just fine. Especially in a Les Paul tuned low...

Yeah, I think the Eclair is like 15K too, right?

I think they call it Gibraltar III. It's the same bridge that was on an old SZ of mine. It was very comfy.

Depends on the bridge the on the LP. Standard current-day Gibsons with stock hardware, yeah. Those are narrower. Vintage too. Late Norlins and early 90's I'm not sure, because many of those use Schaller bridges. But many (and I'd even say most) aftermarket replacement Tune-O's are...

How about a P-Rails Neck in the bridge? Probably not dead-on Tele, but beefier than a split hum. Otherwise, I think your best bet is a medium hot-ish humbucker. I wouldn't go for a PAF or a vintage output wind, because those split are tinny and un-Tele-like, IMO.