50th Anniversary JB/Jazz

[Rex_Rocker]

Wow.

I need them.

 

[orpheo]

Wow, what a surprise!!!!!! I did soooo not see this coming?! Really?! Wow. Another historic reproduction of the JB/Jazz but this time it's different, for realzzz!

Oh please.

 

[hamerfan]

I really liked the 35th Anni set, but the price even used is still steep.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Wow, what a surprise!!!!!! I did soooo not see this coming?! Really?! Wow. Another historic reproduction of the JB/Jazz but this time it's different, for realzzz!

Oh please.

Yeah, it seems to me like it's the same as the 35th Anni. Except you can't get the 35th Anni anymore. Only now you can! I get it, it's not something new. But it's a good opportunity for those of us who missed it last time, I think.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I wonder if you'll be able to get them separately. I'm sure more of us are interested in the JB than the Jazz.

 

[Masta' C]

I wonder if you'll be able to get them separately. I'm sure more of us are interested in the JB than the Jazz.

Doesn't look like it

 

[Rex_Rocker]

 

[beaubrummels]

In the marketing, they have to dance around not saying the current production sounds different, but IME, an old Seymour-wound JB/Jazz or the 35th Anni JB/Jazz (and presumably this 50th original recipe) vs a modern production JB/Jazz do sound or respond slightly different. The old JBs don't have the overly-prominent high peak that people complain about (ice-picky), and they also clean up with the volume. The old recipe neck Jazz also is more 'toneful' to me (if that's a word), e.g. it has something warm/thick/chunky in the low end without getting boomy and has plenty of treble to stay clear at the same time. It's fun to play.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

In the marketing, they have to dance around not saying the current production sounds different, but IME, an old Seymour-wound JB/Jazz or the 35th Anni JB/Jazz (and presumably this 50th original recipe) vs a modern production JB/Jazz do sound or respond slightly different. The old JBs don't have the overly-prominent high peak that people complain about (ice-picky), and they also clean up with the volume. The old recipe neck Jazz also is more 'toneful' to me (if that's a word), e.g. it has something warm/thick/chunky in the low end without getting boomy and has plenty of treble to stay clear at the same time. It's fun to play.

I don't have a 35th Anni JB, but I do have a CS JB wound to Antiquity specs, and they do sound different. I've had them in the same guitar, even. Both production and CS JB sound good to me, though, just in different ways. That being said, of course I like the CS better.

I don't remember whose it was, but I remember reading a blog where they measured a few different JB's from different eras, and the old ones seemed to have less inductance.