I'm upgrading the wire, pots and caps in a MIJ Jaguar and putting in Curtis Novak JMX-JAG pickups and was wondering if I should keep it 1meg pots or go down to 500k.
Anyone have experience with these pickups?
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Posted on May 08 2014 06:46 PM
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Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 11079 Berkeley, CA
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Posted on May 08 2014 08:11 PM
I like the lower resistant pots, tames the highs a bit. I use 250K's myself —Danny Snyder I am now playing trumpet with Prince Buster tribute band 'Balzac' Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
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Posted on May 08 2014 09:55 PM
I don't have Novaks, but I looked into this when I was putting a Jazzmaster together. I settled on 500K pots after reading the advice of Jazzmaster guru and forumite Eddie Katcher. I also used the treble bleed mod--or so called volume kit--which is an easy add since you are redoing everything. It allows you to turn down your volume without losing treble. From everything I researched, lower value pots are equivalent to turning down your tone knob. Jazzmasters (and Jags) as you know are bright guitars and there is still plenty of treble, and with Danny's 250K suggestion as well. Come to think of it, Dave Wronski has said he uses 280K on his Jags. Those are Jag pickups though. |
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Posted on May 08 2014 10:43 PM
250's for me too. http://www.facebook.com/CrazyAcesMusic |
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Posted on May 09 2014 06:06 AM
CrazyAces wrote:
I'm going to be doing that to my JM. You can see this electrically with those stock 1M pots simply ohming out the PU's. Turn the knob below 9 and watch the vault door close to the meter. Super hot to compared to my Strat and slams the amp without an adjustment, but there goes what makes that pickup sound like itself. 250K and I'll take on the chore of rolling back the knob myself. —Wes DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices. |
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Posted on May 09 2014 01:11 PM
Swapping the volume pot in a Jag is the easiest one of them all. I suggest that you try the different approaches. Just make sure you do the comparison testing in a playing environment. If you are not busy working your volume control you won't hear the true relationship between the different configurations. My fave is the 1 meg audio taper shunted to 500K with a 1 meg resistor and the 1000 pico farad bleeder. It allows my AVRI pickups to throttle back at about the 3/4-7/8 setting for most stuff then clobber the other guys in the band with a flick of the little finger. If it only takes 40 degrees of wiper swing to knock Link Ladshaw off his drum throne, that's cool with me. I use the same set up in AVRI-2 that Mako usually plays, except that guitar has the AVRI Jag pickups hidden under the Jazzmaster covers. My AVIR Jag has the same volume/tone circuit. ed —Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps? |
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Posted on May 09 2014 01:17 PM
eddiekatcher wrote:
"You funny Peter-san, you funny." Wes DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices. |
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Posted on May 09 2014 01:25 PM
You need to meet Link................. ed —Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps? |
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