Chistopher
malapterurus electricus tonewood instigator
Yeah, and the Thrash Factor to
Something about the JB...
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ehdwuld
A Ficus
I got the Donlis set
The Fleor set
The Yibuy set
I have all the versions of knockoffs
Now granted some of the bridge pickup are more custom winds than JB
Jermo3178
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In my strats and the tele with the JB, I run 250k's. I used it in a Les Paul with 500k's and it sounded, too.
Masta' C
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Yes, I've owned dozens of early examples and still have 4 or 5 "The JB Model" examples here...all wax potted
Masta' C
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There was a great shoot-out done by one of our forum bros, @zenmindbeginner, comparing the standard JB, the 35th, and the Antiquity:
Biggest difference is the magnet and charge. Standard JB = Fully charged polished A5, 35th = Fully charged roughcast A5, Antiquity = Degaussed (aka: "aged") roughcast A5
Thrash factor is a little tighter and more direct sounding than the standard JB.
Concept set is a slightly tweaked JB with an A2 magnet and pretty much a regular Jazz neck with Custom Shop treatment. These are recreations of the prototypes that were originally featured in the "TeleGib" guitar.
So, from "vintage" to "modern" versions of the JB, you have:
Concept > Antiquity > 35th > Standard > Thrash Factor > SH-6 Distortion...oops, how'd that get in there?
Rex_Rocker
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I've only had the Antiquity JB and the standard JB. And yeah, the Distortion. And the Black Winter if you want to count those.
The Antiquity is hands down the best JB I've had. Not gonna say it was in a completely different league, but it definitely has something special going on. The high and the low end are rolled off, and it has a certain "refinement" to the attack. Feels "squishier" but and a bit softer, but not in a bad way. Not in an A2 kinda way. Even if the low-end is less extended, the pickup overall feels a bit fuller because it has a bit less emphasis up top. A thing that I found interesting is, even if the magnet is degaussed, the output of the pickup doesn't take a huge hit. I didn't find the output to be all that different from the production JB.
Outside of Seymour Duncan, other JB-inspired pickups I've had are the DiMarzio AT-1, the Suhr SSH+ and Aldrich, the Fishman Fluence Classic. And I'm going to include the DiMarzio Dominion in that list as well, because even if it's not all that directly JB-inspired, it definitely has a JB vibe to my ears, loosely speaking, and the specs don't seem as off as well.
Take this comparison I made as a grain of salt. These pickups are not in the same guitar, and one of them is running on a 1M pot, even. But it may get you a rough idea of how close (or different) they are.
The Antiquity is hands down the best JB I've had. Not gonna say it was in a completely different league, but it definitely has something special going on. The high and the low end are rolled off, and it has a certain "refinement" to the attack. Feels "squishier" but and a bit softer, but not in a bad way. Not in an A2 kinda way. Even if the low-end is less extended, the pickup overall feels a bit fuller because it has a bit less emphasis up top. A thing that I found interesting is, even if the magnet is degaussed, the output of the pickup doesn't take a huge hit. I didn't find the output to be all that different from the production JB.
Outside of Seymour Duncan, other JB-inspired pickups I've had are the DiMarzio AT-1, the Suhr SSH+ and Aldrich, the Fishman Fluence Classic. And I'm going to include the DiMarzio Dominion in that list as well, because even if it's not all that directly JB-inspired, it definitely has a JB vibe to my ears, loosely speaking, and the specs don't seem as off as well.
Take this comparison I made as a grain of salt. These pickups are not in the same guitar, and one of them is running on a 1M pot, even. But it may get you a rough idea of how close (or different) they are.
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Rex_Rocker
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Depends on the JB and the guitar. I'm liking 500K, no tone right now, but I'm tempted to go 250.
I definitely don't like running it through two 250K pots, though. I tune down, and I feel the emphasis of the pickup shifts to the stuffy lower mids that are the one thing that I sometimes struggle with on the JB.
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