How bright or articulate is the the Jazz neck

badco33

badco33

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I am normally an Alnico II humbucker man and just love the Seth's but my 93 LP Studio is just a naturally dark sounding guitar and the neck slot seems to kill the sound of a lot of good pickups. I have tried just about all of the PAFish buckers in it but it really turns them to mush. Even when I lower the pickup and adjust the pole pieces. I currenlty have a Phat Cat there and I like it but it is still a bit dark sounding and well, for lack of a better word mushy. The only neck pickup I haven't tried is a Jazz. Could that be the answer? I want the neck to sound the way the seth neck sounds in my other guitars.

I have tried, Pearly Gates, 59, Seth, and Alnico Pro. Just to give you an idea of the guitar, I finally found the right bridge pickup when I tried the Custom 5, but when you listen to it in that guitar it sounds like a custom custom. The guitar just darkens things up so I need an overly bright articulate neck pup to balance things out.
 
Re: How bright or articulate is the the Jazz neck

The Jazz isn't shrill by any means. If those other pickups didn't do the trick, then the Jazz probably will.
 
Re: How bright or articulate is the the Jazz neck

The jazz should work, also there's a forum member that has an underwound phat cat neck that sounds like it might also work.
 
Re: How bright or articulate is the the Jazz neck

Jazz neck will fix that up. It is very articulate and will for sure brighten up the neck position for you.
 
Re: How bright or articulate is the the Jazz neck

I saw the post regarding the underwound Phat Cat and thought that would work as well. Would that be a custom shop order to get one underwound our is it a floor shop request?

I'm starting to think the Jazz might be the ticket.
 
Re: How bright or articulate is the the Jazz neck

badco33 said:
I saw the post regarding the underwound Phat Cat and thought that would work as well. Would that be a custom shop order to get one underwound our is it a floor shop request?
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In my case, I sent them an existing Phat Cat neck model and asked them to rewind it to my specs. They were going to charge me $70 but they lost it for about 6 weeks and sent it to me for free to make up for the lost time. So I don't know if that would be floor or Custom to order it from them that way.

BUT...you can just do the underwind yourself at home. Get a neck model Phat Cat, take the cover off and take about 1,000 turns off the coil. That will get you in the neighborhood of 7.0 to 7.2k. Use a multi-meter, though, so you can check the resistance along the way to make sure you haven't gone too far.

But try the Phat Cat neck as-is before doing anything to it. It could turn out that you like it stock.
 
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