How many JB users here?

Re: How many JB users here?

A JB can be pure magic in the right guitar but in the wrong guitar REALLY awfull. These are fickle on woods and guitar construction. I like them a LOT in a mahogany boddied 25.5 scale bolt on super strat!
 
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I really like JB's, especially after they're dialed in to the right height. When a JB is clean, it can have the clarity of a Strat single coil, along with the warmth and harmonic content of a '59. But it is a very sensitive pickup, and it responds a lot to the way that it's played. That's one of the reasons that so many great guitarists have used it over the years without all sounding alike.
 
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I used to have one in an alder-bodied Strat. I liked it a lot.

I read recently that Adam Jones uses one in the bridge of his Les Paul and seeing as I have a Les Paul now, I'd like to try one again if I stop using actives.
 
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LOVE it in my Schecter C-1 Classic (5-Piece Maple/Walnut neckthrough with Mahogany wings and 1/2'' quilt maple top, rosewood fretboard, stringthrough TOM bridge).

The JB has a thick and deep tone in a balanced guitar, but keeps the mids on a borderline territory which makes it alive and responsive clean and with gain. Great dynamics, just enough of the right freq. to stay clean, singins highs and still a raw rock sound when pushed through a Class A amp.

Very versatile.
 
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Ascension said:
A JB can be pure magic in the right guitar but in the wrong guitar REALLY awfull. These are fickle on woods and guitar construction.
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Tried several JB's in several different guitars (335, LP, & SG). They sounded lousy in everything. Sold them & everything else I've tried since then has been better. For some types of music, in some guitars, they obviously work and have many loyal fans. I think their Achilles heel is just how often they don't work, which is why they have many detractors. You consistently see a lot of used ones sold on eBay, more than just about any other used PU. Lots of disappointed players. A PU promoted this much should have a higher success rate, like the '59's, PG's, & Custom. People shouldn't be dumping them this often.
 
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I don't like the JB. The pickup fits my style of music but, the pickup itself does not fit me.
 
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Came stock in my Jackson SL1. I haven't wanted to change it out yet.

If anything, I'd put in something a little less hot to clean it up a little...but for what that guitar is built for, it's OK. I've played 10 years worth of gigs & recording sessions with it.
 
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The JB is Duncan's #1 selling bridge humbucker, and it's the only humbucker I prefer using with 250K pots instead of 500K. 250K pots give most humbuckers a wooly sounding dull tone - but the JB actually sounds "right" (to me) with 250K pots.

I'm not currently a JB user but I've had them in quite a few guitars. Several Hamers, two Les Pauls and two Strats.

I like the JB in Strats the best and use the stock 250K pots.

The 250K pots smooth out the response and lose some treble. I get the treble back again by adjusting the treble on the amp but now the treble has a smoother character. That's the way Seymour uses the JB as well.

With 500K pots the JB sounds really good to me at first and then after a few days my ears gets fatigued by it - especially at higher volumes.

That doesn't happen when I use it with 250K pots.

The JB has a very aggressive quality to the upper mids. The 250K pots tame that aggressive quality.

Also, the JB splits into a usable single coil better than any other humbucking bridge pickup I've ever used.

Lew
 
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Works great in my alder/maple+maple bolt on/floyded kramer. It's got some special about it when it's dirty. The cleans are ok, but the dirty is....
 
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got one in my gibson explorer, with 300k volume pot. i love it.
 
Re: How many JB users here?

blueman335 said:
Tried several JB's in several different guitars (335, LP, & SG). They sounded lousy in everything. Sold them & everything else I've tried since then has been better. For some types of music, in some guitars, they obviously work and have many loyal fans. I think their Achilles heel is just how often they don't work, which is why they have many detractors. You consistently see a lot of used ones sold on eBay, more than just about any other used PU. Lots of disappointed players. A PU promoted this much should have a higher success rate, like the '59's, PG's, & Custom. People shouldn't be dumping them this often.
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Just between Jackson, ESP, Hamer, Charvel, and innumerable small guitar makers, think about how many JB's are wound every year. There's no comparison between its sales and that of pickups like the Pearly Gates or the Customs. How can any of us compare the "success rate" for the JB to other pickups -- or even know what it is -- when it's the most popular aftermarket pickup in the world? It makes no sense.
 
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Been using them pretty much everyday since December 11th 2005.
I spend about half my practicing time playing lead, so you can see how that works.
If I sell my current guitar, I'll be switching to Blackouts for the next guitar.
As much as I love the lead tone of my JB, for my style of rhythm guitar, I need tighter pickups, and plus, the hum and noise of passive pickups at high gain altogether gets annoying, and it would be a bonus to have to not set my noise gate as high while recording to get better tone when I get active pickups.
 
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i still have mine. It's not a pickup for everyone or for everything but for certain things it's really good
 
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