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Ibanez V8
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Rex_Rocker
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If you use two 500k pots, one for volume, one for tone, the load is 250K.
I use a 300K-ish volume, but no tone. Tone pots? Mud city.
You're not far off actually, I was very impressed with how good the V8 sounded in my blue RG550 and how close to the JB is.Ibanez V8
Taming an Ibanez V8 pickup
Discover how simple mods transform the Ibanez V8 pickup into a clearer, more articulate humbucker with improved headroom and natural rock tones. Learn about magnet swaps, specs, and tonal comparisons with Seymour Duncan JB and Tone Zone pickups.
marcello252
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If you use two 500k pots, one for volume, one for tone, the load is 250K.
I use a 300K-ish volume, but no tone. Tone pots? Mud city.
I think it's a bit more complicated, being the tone control a 1st order lowpass filter
freefrog
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Practically, the low-pass / hi-cut effect of the tone cap affects the resonant peak only when the resistance of the pot is set very low.
One can put a jumper instead of a tone cap: it won't change how the tone control works until it reaches 3/10 or less...
On guitarnutz2, one can find schematics of tone controls WITHOUT caps, therefore: a 4.7k resistor is just there to avoid the tone control to behave like an abrupt volume pot when set @ 0/10...
Not saying caps don't do no differences: when I switch from a 22nF cap to a Q filter with a 250k tone control set full up, I hear it (and my frequency analyzer shows differently shaped hi harmonics, as it does with different caps). But functionally, the load of a tone control is not denied by the tone cap: a 500k volume and a 500k tone effectively give a load of 250k.
It can be checked through a simple 5spice sim if needed.
FWIW. HTH.
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SirJackdeFuzz II
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Duncan JB alternatives, in a Les Paul.
Have a look at these :
https://tonerider.com/products/rocksong?variant=40072447230088 - very under rated.
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/super-distortion - deff worth a look.
The JB (SH-4) is known for a tighter, brighter sound with pronounced upper-mids, while the Super Distortion (DP100) offers a warmer, thicker, and more bass-heavy sound with high output,
https://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/pickup/humbucker/crawler - want to get a set myself.
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Have a look at these :
https://tonerider.com/products/rocksong?variant=40072447230088 - very under rated.
https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/super-distortion - deff worth a look.
The JB (SH-4) is known for a tighter, brighter sound with pronounced upper-mids, while the Super Distortion (DP100) offers a warmer, thicker, and more bass-heavy sound with high output,
https://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/pickup/humbucker/crawler - want to get a set myself.
Emerald humbucker
Punchy mids and crisp bottom-end give this Alnico V powered humbucker a distinctive blues-rock character with great attack.
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marcello252
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isn't this an 'almost' SD CC ?
ehdwuld
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I agree
A budget pickup in an overty priced Gibson is just wrong
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