JB (TB-4) too harsh and bold in the same time?
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JMP/HBE
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Re: JB (TB-4) too harsh and bold in the same time?
Fact is i didn't need to change a thing.
Its funny because the internet lore was telling me i needed 500K pots when i put that Bucker in there earlier this year.
Fact is i didn't need to change a thing.
Gtrjunior
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For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why my HSS Strat sounded so much warmer than my other guitars....then it dawned on me and slowly I began changing the pots out on the guitars that were too bright. Couldn’t be happier.
For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why my HSS Strat sounded so much warmer than my other guitars....then it dawned on me and slowly I began changing the pots out on the guitars that were too bright. Couldn’t be happier.
Gtrjunior
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You could be right. The JB does what it does.
A lower pot value might help, might not. But for $5 I think it’s worth a shot anyway.
You could be right. The JB does what it does.
A lower pot value might help, might not. But for $5 I think it’s worth a shot anyway.
Hollywood Rock
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I like a 1 meg volume with no tone with hot humbuckers also.
I like a 1 meg volume with no tone with hot humbuckers also.
Silence Kid
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IMO you can always turn down a pot if things get too bright, but a caveat with 1 megs is its tough to get a good, smooth taper; whether linear or log they always seem to have a poor balance for me in actual use.
Further - I have never in actual experience felt that adding 1 meg pots alone could ‘cure’ a guitar or pickup that I felt lacked snap. Might help, but it’s more subtle than I think people realize going into it.
IMO you can always turn down a pot if things get too bright, but a caveat with 1 megs is its tough to get a good, smooth taper; whether linear or log they always seem to have a poor balance for me in actual use.
Further - I have never in actual experience felt that adding 1 meg pots alone could ‘cure’ a guitar or pickup that I felt lacked snap. Might help, but it’s more subtle than I think people realize going into it.
Ascension
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Have found the JB to be pure magic in one guitar and horrific in another. No other pickup have I used that is so fickle at times. Sounds like you have the wrong combination of guitar and pickup to me.
If you find the JB to be to hot and brash in that guitar a Custom 5 might be a good swap.
Have found the JB to be pure magic in one guitar and horrific in another. No other pickup have I used that is so fickle at times. Sounds like you have the wrong combination of guitar and pickup to me.
If you find the JB to be to hot and brash in that guitar a Custom 5 might be a good swap.
Re: JB (TB-4) too harsh and bold in the same time?
I'm definitely from the 1 meg volume pots and no load tone pots school since you can subtract but not add treble with tone knobs. Guitars just seem more versatile to me with that extra treble available. Too bright for the song? Turn the tone knob down.
I'm definitely from the 1 meg volume pots and no load tone pots school since you can subtract but not add treble with tone knobs. Guitars just seem more versatile to me with that extra treble available. Too bright for the song? Turn the tone knob down.
DavidRavenMoon
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JB (TB-4) too harsh and bold in the same time?
It’s not biology. A cap is a cap is a cap when it comes to a passive tone control.
Any signal passing through that cap is shunted to ground. You don’t hear it. All you hear is the part of the signal that the cap doesn’t affect.
Also the cap has no effect until you turn the tone control down to around 8. Otherwise it’s the resistive load of the potentiometer.
So in that regards all that maters is the value of the cap.
There’s a reason why capacitor manufacturers stopped making paper in oil caps. Better technology has surpassed those.
The issue here is the resonant peak of the pickup. Reducing the volume pot value can lower the peak out of that annoying upper midrange area.
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It’s not biology. A cap is a cap is a cap when it comes to a passive tone control.
Any signal passing through that cap is shunted to ground. You don’t hear it. All you hear is the part of the signal that the cap doesn’t affect.
Also the cap has no effect until you turn the tone control down to around 8. Otherwise it’s the resistive load of the potentiometer.
So in that regards all that maters is the value of the cap.
There’s a reason why capacitor manufacturers stopped making paper in oil caps. Better technology has surpassed those.
The issue here is the resonant peak of the pickup. Reducing the volume pot value can lower the peak out of that annoying upper midrange area.
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