What's a JB for?

[hamerfan]

Re: What's a JB for?

For anyone who would love to have more beef with their JB - more growl and lower mids/bass - get a Alnico 8 in it.

 

[xicodelico]

Re: What's a JB for?

I couldn't have said it better myself.

For those of you who would like a JB with a tighter bass and more even midrange representation, try this:

Use the hex polepieces out of a Screamin Demon in place of the stock fillisters. It really cleans it up in the mids and gives it a wee bit more muscle in the bottom.

The highs get more air too.

ok let me see if I Understand you, Can I take My Jb and take off the screws an change it for hex in bass position of the HumBucker. (please send a Pm with this info and how to make it)

 

[xicodelico]

Re: What's a JB for?

The are used to achieve that Megadeth tone.

I agree with that. I"m a forever an ever fan of that guitar sound and thaht iis the unique Pup that get me closer to that sound, great to rythm and leads...

 

[Diego]

Re: What's a JB for?

Yup. The JB took me to Cryptic Writings' tone with just a few knob tweaks.

Couldn't be any happier than this. Very grindy and cutting. Who needs massive bass anyway? That's what the bassist is there for.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: What's a JB for?

What's it for? Maybe for helping a Strat or Tele fitted with humbuckers sound a little more like a Les Paul.

Jeff Beck had the 50's paf humbuckers stolen out of his favorite Les Paul.

So Seymour created the Jazz neck and JB bridge humbuckers and put them in a Tele and gave it to Jeff to replace his 50's Les Paul that'd been ruined by an unscrulpulous repair-person.

Lew

 

[clint_41]

Re: What's a JB for?

so... i got the JB in the bridge with a dimarzio HFH in the neck, two volumes and one tone, all 500k pots. they are in an ash warmoth strat, and i love the JB, but as the volume on my amp moves up, the tone pot has to move down.. a lot. so if i were to switch the JB over to 25k pots, which pots would i swap out? all 3, just the volume for the JB, the volume for the JB and the tone? and what kind of differences does this make in the JB sound with 500k pots?

 

[Nightburst]

Re: What's a JB for?

I hear the JB on a lot of punk rock records, it's got a great crunchy tone for medium-high gain tones, that's why I bought it in the first place.
Didn't like it much in my LP but it's in an alder super strat now and sounds just right.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: What's a JB for?

I hear the JB on a lot of punk rock records, it's got a great crunchy tone for medium-high gain tones, that's why I bought it in the first place.
Didn't like it much in my LP but it's in an alder super strat now and sounds just right.

It's a very versatile pickup. But, IMO, pickups don't have a crunchy tone...amps have a crunchy tone. Marshalls and tweed Bassmans in particular. Lew