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Re: Would you spend $40 on an output jack?
I use $35 picks on my acoustic instruments, but they don’t wear out or move around in my hand, and I love the tone from them. Paying more than most people deem reasonable for something isn’t out of the question for me, but only when it delivers some outstanding results like the BlueChip picks I described above.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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Re: Would you spend $40 on an output jack?
I’ll defend the $35 picks all day. On an acoustic instrument, you have the wood, strings, and the pick (and of course your hands). I’m cool with Tortex on electric stuff, but the strings are heavier and tighter on my acoustic guitar and mandolin, and normal picks tend to rotate. The BlueChips don’t. They also come with the edge beveled, and don’t wear out. And really... it’s $35, and if you don’t like them, people will buy good condition used ones on Mandolin Cafe for $30. Also, once you spend that much on a pick, you tend to stop losing them. If I was a touring musician, I’d use the Dunlop Primetones, which are 90% as good for $3 each.
My basses have quality jacks in them that weren’t prohibitively expensive. I don’t see any reason to spend more than Switchcraft on those.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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Originally posted by ArtieToo View PostAs long as we're on this theme, how about $6600 for a guitar cable. (Yup, $6600. No typo.)
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Re: Would you spend $40 on an output jack?
I use the pure tone jacks with the double thingy
They work just fine
I can get two for 8 bucks on Amazon
Most I want to spendEHD
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SR500 / Martin 000CE-1/Epiphone Hummingbird
Epiphone Florentine with OEM Probuckers
Ehdwuld branded Blue semi hollow custom with JB/Jazz
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I've never had even the cheapest jack fail due to build quality. Loose connections, yes. But that can happen on any solder-lug jack over time. As for a sound difference? Take off! I'm not as stupid as I look!Originally posted by LesStratYogi Berra was correct.Originally posted by JOLLYI do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.
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IMO a well-engineered solution for a problem that doesn't exist. Switchcraft have always worked just fine for me.
Perhaps more complex than necessary - will they hold up for long years of use?.
"You should know better by now than to introduce science into a discussion of voodoo."
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Those jacks seem to be going on the principle of "more contact means better sound!" but the pickup signal still goes through tiny gauge wires to get to the @@#$ jack!
Until they can show a voltage drop caused by Switchcraft jacks I would even consider it.
Now, if the selling point is security or durability then maybe they aren't robbing people, but it sure looks like a complicated solution to a simple problem to me.
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I would not. Switchcraft is fine with me. If I felt like a needed multiple points of contact, there are options for $5.
Besides, the input jack is never the weakest link in my tone. That distinction goes to my fingers.Duncan Pickups in currently in use: '59 (rewound to PATB-3)/'59, Custom/AP2H, Tapped QP set for Tele, Crazy 8/Cool Rails, Screamin' Demon/Stra-Bro 90, Custom 5/Phat Cat, SP90-1/SP90-2, SMB-5D
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Re: Would you spend $40 on an output jack?
Originally posted by Dave Locher View PostThose jacks seem to be going on the principle of "more contact means better sound!" but the pickup signal still goes through tiny gauge wires to get to the @@#$ jack!
Until they can show a voltage drop caused by Switchcraft jacks I would even consider it.
Now, if the selling point is security or durability then maybe they aren't robbing people, but it sure looks like a complicated solution to a simple problem to me.
I must take exception
The pure tone corrects a problem I have had with loose connections
Because the single thingy bent
Usually because someone set the guitar on the couch or floor instead of a proper hanger
The pure tone is less likely to lose contact this way
I may be wrong but that's the way I justify it
You may be right
I have some guitars with the barrel jacks that I hate
Mainly because I cant see what's going on inside
Probably the same as the one in the OPEHD
Just here surfing Guitar Pron
RG2EX1 w/ SD hot-rodded pickups / RG4EXFM1 w/ Carvin S22j/b + FVN middle
SR500 / Martin 000CE-1/Epiphone Hummingbird
Epiphone Florentine with OEM Probuckers
Ehdwuld branded Blue semi hollow custom with JB/Jazz
Reptile Green Gibson Custom Studio / Aqua Dean Shire semi hollow with piezo
Carvin Belair / Laney GC80A Acoustic Amp (a gift from Guitar Player Mag)
GNX3000 (yea I'm a modeler)
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Originally posted by MikeS View PostI would not. Switchcraft is fine with me. If I felt like a needed multiple points of contact, there are options for $5.
Besides, the input jack is never the weakest link in my tone. That distinction goes to my fingers.
Some people take exception to thatEHD
Just here surfing Guitar Pron
RG2EX1 w/ SD hot-rodded pickups / RG4EXFM1 w/ Carvin S22j/b + FVN middle
SR500 / Martin 000CE-1/Epiphone Hummingbird
Epiphone Florentine with OEM Probuckers
Ehdwuld branded Blue semi hollow custom with JB/Jazz
Reptile Green Gibson Custom Studio / Aqua Dean Shire semi hollow with piezo
Carvin Belair / Laney GC80A Acoustic Amp (a gift from Guitar Player Mag)
GNX3000 (yea I'm a modeler)
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