ceramic mag in saturday night special neck to keep up with jb bridge?

[jeremy]

i have a super light weight swamp ash body tele with a fat korina neck. its got a quirky tone profile so has been tricky to dial in. the jb in the bridge with 250k volume and shared 500k tone sounds great. i put a sns neck in there, 500k volume, and it sounds muffled and under powered. i have a sns set in a prs se and it sounds great so its just not a good fit for this guitar. i was thinking since it needs output and to be brighter... maybe a c8 would work well? any one tried anything like this?

 

[Ascension]

i have a super light weight swamp ash body tele with a fat korina neck. its got a quirky tone profile so has been tricky to dial in. the jb in the bridge with 250k volume and shared 500k tone sounds great. i put a sns neck in there, 500k volume, and it sounds muffled and under powered. i have a sns set in a prs se and it sounds great so its just not a good fit for this guitar. i was thinking since it needs output and to be brighter... maybe a c8 would work well? any one tried anything like this?

The SNS is really good as a set. However I have never been able to get the SNS neck to really play nice with another bridge pickup. I would leave the SNS alone it is what it is and just swap in a Sentient or 59 neck as they both work very well with a JB. My preference would be the Sentient by far.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I have not tried it, but my guess is it would be sorta like a Gibson 496R, and I think the 496R and 498T (which is also JB-ish) works well.

So I don't think it'd be a bad idea.

 

[Clint 55]

My go to mag for adding cut to a neck pickup without sounding synthetic is A9. You could also swap A3 into the JB to drop its output and further balance the set.

 

[Ascension]

My go to mag for adding cut to a neck pickup without sounding synthetic is A9. You could also swap A3 into the JB to drops its output and further balance the set.

Haven't used A9 before however have a A3 mag in the 59 neck that's paired with a JB bridge in my swamp ash body 95 Washburn USA MG 102. That combo in that guitar is just amazing!!
Recorded all the electric guitars here with that one through my old Red 100 watt Fender Prosonic head.
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[jeremy]

i dont have an a9 layin around but have maybe 40 c8 bars. a3 wont do it, though i do like a3 a lot. i need more output and cut. i tried a 59 in this guitar and the tone was ok, but the output was too low and a sentient isnt going to be much better. i dont wanna mag swap the jb cause it sounds great as it is.

i was thinking about a 496r when trying to figure out how to get what i want from the neck position, which is why i think im gonna try it at the next string change

 

[GuitarDoc]

save the SNS for another project and put in a Demon.

 

[jeremy]

i dont have a demon sitting around and i havent liked it all that much in other guitars, but this is an odd duck so it might work

 

[larryguitar]

I'd try an A8 before a C8, but that's just me.


Larry

 

[chadd]

It's not going to help. Maybe a double thick ceramic in a full shred neck, but I'm not even sure that would work

 

[Ascension]

i dont have an a9 layin around but have maybe 40 c8 bars. a3 wont do it, though i do like a3 a lot. i need more output and cut. i tried a 59 in this guitar and the tone was ok, but the output was too low and a sentient isnt going to be much better. i dont wanna mag swap the jb cause it sounds great as it is.

i was thinking about a 496r when trying to figure out how to get what i want from the neck position, which is why i think im gonna try it at the next string change

Got you here. Will say this I absolutely love the Alt 8 Sentient combo I have in my Koa Carvin DC 127. They match very well in both tone and output. You may want to try a Dimazio Liquifier. Have owned a couple and found them to hot for what I wanted in the neck but might work very well for you here. I really like the Liquifier as a mid output bridge pickup BTW.

 

[Demanic]

I would go with an A5 before something stronger. Single ceramic probably wouldn't sound bad, but it might be more than what you're looking for.