voggin
Well-known member
Well, yesterday, really.
I had a tech put a JB/Jazz set into my PRS SE singlecut. Mahogany body with a thin maple cap. I thought I'd post my first impressions, even though it's still honeymoon period. However, unlike a guitar, I'm not as excited as I get on NGD's.
I have now played through a small vox tube combo, my own tube pro junior, and a Hughes and Kettner solid state 40w. I'm hoping to play it through a stilletto and a deville this weekend.
I was a little worried about the JB, given the mixed opinions on that pu on the forum. However, I'm pleasantly pleased/relieved. What an interesting pickup! The harmonics are great, and chords with overdrive sound really bitey, but very clear. Every note is audible. I have a very light touch, esp. in soloing, so it may be that the brittle sounds others get from the JB are due to a stronger attack. For me, the tone I seem to get most is a Billy Gibbons '80s Eliminator (was that the album title?) squeally fat tone. When I roll back the tone a touch, I get some 70s blues-rock sounds.
On clean settings, I get a great, sharp rythm sound, very funky and sparkly. I can really see how this pu would cut through a band, esp. drums. It may be my ears or my style of playing, but I like the sharp tones (and I'm a bedroom player). Lots of harmonic stuff going on, which I'll have to learn to exploit.
The Jazz is a great neck pu. Nice bluesy tones, very les paul-ish. Played "Stepping Out" with the tone rolled back, very sweet, even through the solid state. On clean, nice jangly rythms, no mud.
I like them together too. Lots of neat sounds. On clean, subtle use of the volume and tone knobs gives me a lot of workable tones.
So I'm quite please with the pair. I actually thought the stock pus were okay, but there is simply no comparing real pus to those. This is my first mod, and really my first two humbucker guitar. I'm now into this guitar for 700 dollars (guitar, 400, pickups around 200, tech 100: he also did an amazing setup and some work on the nut...my dad always said "never begrudge a pro his fee" and he was right!) and with the new pu's I have to say it went from a good mid-range guitar to a good guitar, period.
This Seymour dude knows what he's doing!
I had a tech put a JB/Jazz set into my PRS SE singlecut. Mahogany body with a thin maple cap. I thought I'd post my first impressions, even though it's still honeymoon period. However, unlike a guitar, I'm not as excited as I get on NGD's.
I have now played through a small vox tube combo, my own tube pro junior, and a Hughes and Kettner solid state 40w. I'm hoping to play it through a stilletto and a deville this weekend.
I was a little worried about the JB, given the mixed opinions on that pu on the forum. However, I'm pleasantly pleased/relieved. What an interesting pickup! The harmonics are great, and chords with overdrive sound really bitey, but very clear. Every note is audible. I have a very light touch, esp. in soloing, so it may be that the brittle sounds others get from the JB are due to a stronger attack. For me, the tone I seem to get most is a Billy Gibbons '80s Eliminator (was that the album title?) squeally fat tone. When I roll back the tone a touch, I get some 70s blues-rock sounds.
On clean settings, I get a great, sharp rythm sound, very funky and sparkly. I can really see how this pu would cut through a band, esp. drums. It may be my ears or my style of playing, but I like the sharp tones (and I'm a bedroom player). Lots of harmonic stuff going on, which I'll have to learn to exploit.
The Jazz is a great neck pu. Nice bluesy tones, very les paul-ish. Played "Stepping Out" with the tone rolled back, very sweet, even through the solid state. On clean, nice jangly rythms, no mud.
I like them together too. Lots of neat sounds. On clean, subtle use of the volume and tone knobs gives me a lot of workable tones.
So I'm quite please with the pair. I actually thought the stock pus were okay, but there is simply no comparing real pus to those. This is my first mod, and really my first two humbucker guitar. I'm now into this guitar for 700 dollars (guitar, 400, pickups around 200, tech 100: he also did an amazing setup and some work on the nut...my dad always said "never begrudge a pro his fee" and he was right!) and with the new pu's I have to say it went from a good mid-range guitar to a good guitar, period.
This Seymour dude knows what he's doing!
