Clint 55
OH THE DOUBLE THICK GLAZE!
I dialed my delux jazz pickguard that I've been working on. It has a 59n with A2 spacers in the neck and my A2/A6 12k cs Phat Cat in the middle. The mini toggle is the pickup selector switch. The 4 way switch's positions are 1: 292k volume pot, 6.8nf tone cap. 2: 680k resistor to volume, 10nf cap. 3: 300k resistor, 15nf cap. 4: 100k resistor, 22nf cap. The tone is a 228k no load so with the tone on 10 I can use the 4 way switch to toggle between just volume resistances which equal, starting on position 1: 292k, 204k, 148k, and 75k.
Sounds really good! I didn't know if all this nonsense with a middle pickup and a vari-tone/vari-volume would work out or be useful but it is! The middle pickup ended up being fat enough to give a more percussive but still very suitable jazz tone. It's thinner than the neck but it's actually more compressed since it's 12k. The neck/middle position sounds very good too. 300k ended up being a perfect value for the volume. Switch position 1 with the tone on 10 is the right amount of glass, then switch position 4 is nice and smoky, with positions 2 and 3 being in between. I'm going to stick with this setup.
Here's the demo. The 1st 3 clips are neck position then middle then neck middle all just with the controls wide open. After that I just use neck position to toggle between switch position 4,1,3,2 with the tone open, then on 6, then on 0. Sorry, it's a lot of g bluez, but you get the idea.
Sounds really good! I didn't know if all this nonsense with a middle pickup and a vari-tone/vari-volume would work out or be useful but it is! The middle pickup ended up being fat enough to give a more percussive but still very suitable jazz tone. It's thinner than the neck but it's actually more compressed since it's 12k. The neck/middle position sounds very good too. 300k ended up being a perfect value for the volume. Switch position 1 with the tone on 10 is the right amount of glass, then switch position 4 is nice and smoky, with positions 2 and 3 being in between. I'm going to stick with this setup.
Here's the demo. The 1st 3 clips are neck position then middle then neck middle all just with the controls wide open. After that I just use neck position to toggle between switch position 4,1,3,2 with the tone open, then on 6, then on 0. Sorry, it's a lot of g bluez, but you get the idea.
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