250k pot for JB...
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blueman335
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Re: 250k pot for JB...
How many pots do you have on your guitar? ideally the 250K would be for the bridge only, and a 500K for the neck.
How many pots do you have on your guitar? ideally the 250K would be for the bridge only, and a 500K for the neck.
Boogie Bill
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Re: 250k pot for JB...
I have a late '90s G&L ASAT Deluxe with the '59/TB-4 set. Maple over mahogany, V, T, 3-way selector and global coil cut. It has 250K pots.
I like this set, a lot. I'm a classic rock, blues, country, jazz guy in a G/B/K/D cover band . I don't use a lot of crunch rhythms, or metal. I use Mesa amps, but even on my lead channel solos, I only have the gain 6-7. I usually gig with multiple guitars.
Some guys complain about the shrill upper mids of the JB, but I'm not getting that here. It is warm, fat, rounded--a good rock tone. Very similar to the Classic '57+ bridge pickups I have in a couple of my Les Pauls. (I'm sure they have 300K pots.) The ASAT does not sound like a Les Paul to me. The coil splits do not make it sound like a Tele, but it is a usable tone on both pickups. It does not "twang". I will usually set the amp up for the split coil; then when I use the HB mode I have a nice little boost and HB fatness. The '59 is not too dark with this setup; sounds like a vintage humbucker to me.
From my experience, and from what the other guys on the board have written about the JB, I think the 250K pot is a good place to start--and adjust from there.
Good luck.
Bill
I have a late '90s G&L ASAT Deluxe with the '59/TB-4 set. Maple over mahogany, V, T, 3-way selector and global coil cut. It has 250K pots.
I like this set, a lot. I'm a classic rock, blues, country, jazz guy in a G/B/K/D cover band . I don't use a lot of crunch rhythms, or metal. I use Mesa amps, but even on my lead channel solos, I only have the gain 6-7. I usually gig with multiple guitars.
Some guys complain about the shrill upper mids of the JB, but I'm not getting that here. It is warm, fat, rounded--a good rock tone. Very similar to the Classic '57+ bridge pickups I have in a couple of my Les Pauls. (I'm sure they have 300K pots.) The ASAT does not sound like a Les Paul to me. The coil splits do not make it sound like a Tele, but it is a usable tone on both pickups. It does not "twang". I will usually set the amp up for the split coil; then when I use the HB mode I have a nice little boost and HB fatness. The '59 is not too dark with this setup; sounds like a vintage humbucker to me.
From my experience, and from what the other guys on the board have written about the JB, I think the 250K pot is a good place to start--and adjust from there.
Good luck.
Bill
Re: 250k pot for JB...
Here we go... this is my Music Man Silo Special using a regular JB with one 250k pot and no tone control:
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=8899150
Here we go... this is my Music Man Silo Special using a regular JB with one 250k pot and no tone control:
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=8899150
Re: 250k pot for JB...
The part of the JB's tone that is "muffled" is the shrillness that tends to be so irritating about the JB.
PS: there really isn't much difference between a 250k and 300k volume pot. Certainly not enough to say that the 250k "muffles" the tone and the 300k doesn't.
The part of the JB's tone that is "muffled" is the shrillness that tends to be so irritating about the JB.
PS: there really isn't much difference between a 250k and 300k volume pot. Certainly not enough to say that the 250k "muffles" the tone and the 300k doesn't.
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Tubes
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Re: 250k pot for JB...
I'm thinking of doing the same (300K volumes, 500K tones) on a semi-hollow I'm putting a Jazz + JB in. I'm having a tough time deciding 250 vs 500 (SD has 500k in their schematics, people suggested 250k). Should going 300/500 for both volumes/tones with a Jazz & JB work out well?
I'm thinking of doing the same (300K volumes, 500K tones) on a semi-hollow I'm putting a Jazz + JB in. I'm having a tough time deciding 250 vs 500 (SD has 500k in their schematics, people suggested 250k). Should going 300/500 for both volumes/tones with a Jazz & JB work out well?
Edgecrusher
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Archer250
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Re: 250k pot for JB...
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... A JB in a semi-hollow? I'd love to hear how that would sound.
Oh. He's **** out of luck, then.
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... A JB in a semi-hollow? I'd love to hear how that would sound.
Tubes
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Re: 250k pot for JB...
Haha.. my thoughts exactly.
And they'd sound something like this hopefully: (SH-2/SH-4 in Gibson ES-333)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sv2NxhAw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9LFSYm0gY
Haha.. my thoughts exactly.
And they'd sound something like this hopefully: (SH-2/SH-4 in Gibson ES-333)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sv2NxhAw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9LFSYm0gY
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Re: 250k pot for JB...
Love the SH-4 with 250K stock Fender pots. Bought a new strat and installed an SH-5 with 500K pots. Hated it. Could have been the pickup though, but the SH-4 was waaaaay smoother, warmer and rounder around the edges. I will probably never go for 500K pots again.
Love the SH-4 with 250K stock Fender pots. Bought a new strat and installed an SH-5 with 500K pots. Hated it. Could have been the pickup though, but the SH-4 was waaaaay smoother, warmer and rounder around the edges. I will probably never go for 500K pots again.
solspirit
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No tone player? I use DiMarzio custom taper pots. They're pretty amazing for what little bit they do.
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alex1fly
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That guy is a beast. Love his videos. Simple, to the point, incredible playing, and he has so much joy.
Potentiometer values are so subjective. Just one element in the chain. You really have to make those decisions yourself.
dotsdad
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Use a 500k master volume, and put a 510k resistor from the JB’s side of the switch to ground. That will give the JB a 250k load, but the 59 will still be at 500k.
