Duncan JB - Love it or hate it? Why?

[Greazygeo]

Just put my old 80’s JB with a Jazz in my SG yesterday. Was in my RG570 previously. Sounds great in either guitar. Have had this pickup in many guitars over the years, always sounds great.

500 k pots not working with them? They work fine with them. No pickup sounds great in every guitar. There have been a few guitars that JB’s didn’t work, it happens. But not many for me.

 

[Greazygeo]

JB is very polarizing because of its significant mid push, which works very well with some guitars yet not others. In the wrong guitar it’s just too much but nice and balanced in others. More balanced pickups are easier to match up with various guitars

If you look at Duncan’s eq curve, it does not show a mid push. Little bass, little more mids and alot more treble. I have not experienced a mid push with them, could be in a certain guitar though.

 

[thegame]

If you look at Duncan’s eq curve, it does not show a mid push. Little bass, little more mids and alot more treble. I have not experienced a mid push with them, could be in a certain guitar though.

I don’t think that oversimplified B/M/T description is adequate. Should have two more fields, LM lower mids and UM upper mids. Otherwise lots of their pickups will read similarly on paper yet sound quite different in real world testing. That high ‘treble’ reading on paper is more of an upper mid peak IMO.

 

[Greazygeo]

I don’t think that oversimplified B/M/T description is adequate. Should have two more fields, LM lower mids and UM upper mids. Otherwise lots of their pickups will read similarly on paper yet sound quite different in real world testing. That high ‘treble’ reading on paper is more of an upper mid peak IMO.

I dunno, pretty accurate to how they sound to me. Pretty good gauge after trying one model and trying to find something different. Dimarzio does the same thing, but I have much less experience with them.