Jb distance from strings, how do you like it?

[ehdwuld]

Also with automobiles until the 1990s or so there used to be "domestic" vehicles (mainly GM, Ford, and Chrysler) that used imperial sized tools and "foreign" vehicles (mainly Toyota and Honda) that used metric. Sometimes they would use both systems.

I think now in the U.S. nearly all cars use metric size tools.

Soda pop bottles went from 32 oz glass ti 2 liter bottles and stayed

You can get 16.9 oz (1/2 liter) sodas warm in the grocery store by the 6 pack
or a 20 oz at the gas station

 

[Inflames626]

Soda pop bottles went from 32 oz glass ti 2 liter bottles and stayed

You can get 16.9 oz (1/2 liter) sodas warm in the grocery store by the 6 pack
or a 20 oz at the gas station

I didn't see 20 oz soda bottles become common in vending machines until the 90s.

I was born in 1980 so I don't remember a lot of the change over in the 70s. But I do remember the old style cigarette machines and the soda machines that dispensed glass bottles.

 

[Inflames626]

Also in the US 40 ounce beverages (about 1.25 US quarts or 1.18 liters) are becoming a thing.

To be honest adopting liters shouldn't be hard since a quart is just over a liter in size.

 

[Cynical]

Far, far away -- I'd go with at least one meter. You don't want it interfering with the almost certainly far better pickup you have in the guitar.

 

[ehdwuld]

Also in the US 40 ounce beverages (about 1.25 US quarts or 1.18 liters) are becoming a thing.

To be honest adopting liters shouldn't be hard since a quart is just over a liter in size.

Math

16.9 oz = 1/2 liter
16 oz = 1 pint
2 pints = one quart
One quart = 32 oz
2 x 1/2 liter = 16.9 +16.9 = 33.8 oz
One quart is 32 oz
One liter equals 33.8 oz

Kinda right

Close enough

Yeah go with it:31:

 

[Inflames626]

Math

16.9 oz = 1/2 liter
16 oz = 1 pint
2 pints = one quart
One quart = 32 oz
2 x 1/2 liter = 16.9 +16.9 = 33.8 oz
One quart is 32 oz
One liter equals 33.8 oz

Kinda right

Close enough

Yeah go with it:31:

Ah my mistake and you are correct . Did the conversion quickly via Google and only saw 1 > .94.

Anyway, the point was the liter shouldn't be hard for Americans to adopt since it is roughly equivalent to a quart.

 

[ehdwuld]

Like was stated
close enough
We agree
ait seems that most things are migrating slowly to it

 

[marcello252]

Back on topic, I had toyed around a bit yesterday, I revised my settings, now the JB sits with all the screws a bit above the bobbin surface (say 1.5 full turn, It works better, maybe it compensates the inclination of the strings?) and the distance from top of the screw and the bottom of the strings 2.3mm bass side, 2mm treble side.

It's amazing how much the JB is sensitive to the distance from strings in my strat, I don't know if it's a psychoacoustic effect or is it real (but it seems real) or it is something specific to my guitar.

 

[ehdwuld]

mine was like that

the first time I put a JB /Jazz set in my RG2
I fought that as well

first it was too high
overdriven and icepicky

then it was too low
muted and un-remarkable

when you find that sweet spot
omg it was just 80's hair metal all day long
singing sweetness

very particular where it sits under the strings
then all that was left was volume match the jazz in the neck
and I had the secret sauce

I have used that same ratio with all my guitars

for a while I was just putting the JB/Jazz in all of the guitars
then I found Chinese knock-offs with brass base plates
they adjusted slightly different but with the same effect

they don't sound exactly like the Duncans

but I don't sound like any of my heroes either

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I've never had a pickup that the pickup height made or broke, though. At least not if you stayed within reasonable range. Yeah, I mean, A PAF-type is more than likely going to sound like shit (if it makes any sound at all) if it's an inch away from the strings. But all of my pickups have all been seet within, say, 3.5-ish mm at most, 2-ish at least.

Not to say you shouldn't experiment with pickup height, though. But I have to keep tweaking and tweaking a pickup for it to sound "good" to me, then, to me, it's not hard to just yank it off, sell it, and move on to the next choice.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Personally, what I'm learning from trying to salvage my SH-6N right now by magnet swapping and whatnot is that if I don't like a pickup to begin with, it's probably going to be hard to salvage it no matter how much I tweak it.

I will say, though, tweaking is fun. Not trying to say you shouldn't. I'm just discussing my experience.

 

[ehdwuld]

Well if you are changing magnets
thats one thing
But baseplate? Unless you just need shorter legs
You probably want something else and there are many choices out there
Too many to continue to try to make one something its not

 

[GuitarDoc]

I like my JBs a minimum of 6 feet from the strings.