Pickups for JP Majesty

[Ascension]

I'm not totally convinced this is even a good idea. However if I was going to go for passives, I would bypass all the on-board electronics. To get the right sound from passive pickups you actually need the instrument cable in the circuit with the pickup and volume control. When you add a buffer amplifier, it will change the loading on the pickup and it won't sound like its supposed to. Also it seems like you are trying to take a high-gain metal guitar and turn it into something more vintage like. Unless you really like mahogany guitars, I have doubts about how successful this is going to be.

Depends on the pre amp. i have 2 Carvins with their active set ups running a Saturday Night Special set in my AE 185 and a Hybrid Sentient in my DC 400 that sound fantastic. The Carvin set up is designed to run with normal passive pickups though. On the DC 400 if you pull the volume it bypasses the active module and runs just a conventional master volume master tone. I don't know how the Majesty is set up though.

 

[alex1fly]

I'm not totally convinced this is even a good idea. Also it seems like you are trying to take a high-gain metal guitar and turn it into something more vintage like. Unless you really like mahogany guitars, I have doubts about how successful this is going to be.

This was kind of my thought too, TBH, even though I still put some ideas out there. Not to shame or anything but if you knowingly bought a multi-thousand dollar John Petrucci signature guitar with complicated electronics, spend some time with it. Try different settings and effects. JP processes the heck out of his tone, so it stands to reason that his signature guitar will shine when you do the same. You owe it to yourself and to the guitar. Sell it if you don't like it. Modding it may damage the internals, kill the resale value, etc. Or if you do want to change things in there, pull the entire assembly and re-wire. Or have a pro do it.

 

[hamerfan]

The best JB clone i ever heard was the Suhr Doug Aldridge. Those can be had with the triangular tab in the Fender spaced Models.
Highly recommended.

 

[bigcupholder]

A good pickup might be a Gravity Storm bridge. Had one for a while a really liked it in a Carvin ST 300 but it was so different from the other set ups I had. I needed a different type tone in that guitar. so went with a Saturday Night Special set. Those are really big and sweet but have some serious attitude and IMO would make a great bridge pickup in a Majesty with maybe a Paf Pro or a PAF Joe. The Satur8 with a PAF JOE would also be really nice!

I still haven't installed my Satchur8 so I'm curious, why do you think the PAF Joe is a better match for it than the PAF Pro?

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