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Anybody tried the Mesa JP-2C? Looks interesting. Basically a Mk IIC+ with double EQ. I never owned a Mesa Mk amp, no idea what to expect. Price tag appropriate of course.

Solid carbon steel is a time-proven material since right after the Bronze Age. Never underestimate its usefulness.

Not anymore, it seems they stopped operations for good.

Freefrog is right. The amplitude of the resonance peak is lowered with backwards connected volume pot, if you turn it down just a little. This is deliberately done by Jazz basses which trade this for the independent control advantage, but make no mistake, they pretty much run without resonance...

Looking good. I suppose long legs are out of the question with those?

Surely somebody must have X-rayed a couple of EMG pickups by now?

ECC memory, redundant power supply.

Yeah, build quality on this amp isn't good enough for catapult delivery, so ground it is.

No, generally blending doesn't work in passive guitars, although it obviously works for Jazz basses. The problem is that you connect the volume pots backwards compared to a normal Les Paul setup, and any amount of turning one of them down puts a lot of load on the pickup and dampens the...

Very nice.

" turning any guitar into a veritable all-in-one tone machine" Yeah, very convincing.

Personally I will try the L12-40A (Alnico) next: https://eminence.com/products/l12-40a https://eminence.com/blogs/blog/tonal-domination

That guitar would totally stand on its own even without the logo and serial number.

Prepare to be overrun by tin mining corporations...

Among the pickups you have there I would drive the JB with an A2 magnet. Of course it is a pain in the allerwertesten to change the magnet on a covered pickup.