JB 500k vs 250k pot

Re: JB 500k vs 250k pot

I like a warm bluesy tone, & use 250Ks on all my bridge PU's. Even then JB's are too bright & harsh for me (had several & sold them). However, with a A2, A3, or A4 magnet, they would have a more balanced EQ & not so much of that awful icepick tone.

I can't see using 500K pots on A5 bridge PU's on any of my guitars...bright location, bright PU, bright magnet = shrill & thin. My God, how bright do you need it? But for metal boys it works.

Someone on this forum recently said that Seymour belives that the JB is better with an A2 magnet.

If you learn know how to swap magnets, you can get a much bigger range of EQ & output from your PU's. Otherwise you're probably buying & selling PU's regularly, and that gets expensive.
 
Re: JB 500k vs 250k pot

disturb said:
500K. I feel that 250K's muddy up humbuckers.
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Thats too broad of a generalization for me.

Definitely 250k for JB's and most bridge humbuckers for that matter. An occasional exception but 250k is my default for bridge pickups
 
Re: JB 500k vs 250k pot

It really depends on your guitar mate. I can't imagine running the JB with a 250k pot in my LP styled guitar. But I took a JB out of my mahogany super strat because it was too bright/harsh. A 250k pot in that situation might have made the JB a keeper.
 
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