lil 59 vs 59; jb jr vs jb; the difference?

[thor666]

this has been boggling on my mind for quite a while now... i keep reading a lot about the JB being having great high ends, mids but flabby bottom.

I have a friend having a JB on the bridge of an Ibanez RG450MMH... mahogany body, maple neck... and the sound he gets is... kinda muddy. ?

as for me, I'm using a mex strat maple neck, alder body, with 2 classic stacks on the neck and mid, and jb-jr on the bridge. The JB Jr sounds like it has great crunch on the bass, good mids but way too ice-picky treble. (that's even after I wired it to a 250k tonepot.)

I'm kinda puzzled why there seems to be such a big difference in terms of sound... yeah the woods are different but the sound is so contrasting.

Wondering how the lil 59 vs 59 would fare too... i'll be trading my jb-jr with a lil59.

 

[Archer_of_Fish]

Re: lil 59 vs 59; jb jr vs jb; the difference?

I have always found the lil 59 and JB Jr to be kinda lacking the tone of their full sized namesakes.

 

[ErikH]

Re: lil 59 vs 59; jb jr vs jb; the difference?

I've been told that the Little '59 sounds closer to the full sized 59 than the JB Jr. sounds to the full size JB Jr.

Try swapping the bridge tone cap for a .047uf cap from the stock .022uf cap.

Here's some clips of my MIA Strat with the Little '59 in the bridge: Linky.

 

[Artie]

Re: lil 59 vs 59; jb jr vs jb; the difference?

I was surprised by how much the Lil 59 sounded like the full-sized. Not exactly, but close enough. The "Lil" version is perhaps, a bit warmer and smoother.

 

[thor666]

Re: lil 59 vs 59; jb jr vs jb; the difference?

Thanks for the insights! I should be popping a lil 59 into the bridge of my strat soon enough.