ChurchHill
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Yes, they are, but I didn't think Charvel was making anything 24.75" scale anymore??
DanTravis62
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Like I said, I'm only considering 24.75 scale
SonVolt
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Brain fart. I had those backwards in my head.
JackBootedThug
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Put an a2 in your jb and it will be your favorite new pup….
Uzi Nein Millimetah
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I LOVE it!
It's kind of an alternate take on the Charvel 750XL formula to satisfy that need for a while. It's thicc and feels substantial yet ultra speedy. Shreds like mad, and the middle toggle position gives excellent cleans. Instantly summons LaRocque and '80s Thrash and Shred, which was my goal. The JB just seems to work in thicc guitars, especially 24.75" scale in my experience.
Huge bonus in that it comes with factory SS frets, which alone is worth about $700 in my area. And it's really stunning in person, hard to fully capture in pics...
scottosan
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They’re literally the same pickup with a different magnet. You could try a A8 magnet in the JB and get the same output of the DD with the benefit of the higher inductance/lower resonant peak of ALNICO
Rottweiler
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How close would ghat be to the custom custom?
JackBootedThug
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No idea brother….
ChurchHill
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It's been a while since I've done that, but not that close to a Custom Custom. The JB has a 16.6k wind and the CC is 14.1, so the coils are pretty different out of the gate. As I recall, the A2 JB didn't cut as much and was much softer on the low end. What was already a full mid became muddy and indistinct. Keep in mind, though, that I'm not a fan of the JB, although I do think it sounds great when other people use it. The CC doesn't work in everything, but in a bright guitar like a Strat with a maple board, it's got good mids, present highs, and the lows aren't loose. In mahogany bodies, it gets loses too much of its cut.
SonVolt
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Are they? People seem to strongly disagree on both sides of this argument.
scottosan
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I heard if one a Duncan employee at a guitar show. Just like the of the custom picks are just different mags.
That said, the ceramic in the DD is thicker, so a magnet swap is harder in the DD without changing spacers.
mentoneman
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my first shred stick was a ibby rg140
swapped the neck for a carvin ebony fb bolt on and went classic stack neck, hs-2 middle, pearly gates bridge. gigged that for a decade.
in the 90s i also bought a LP deluxe routed for a full bridge hummer and it came with a dimarzio distortion. yanked that sizzler and gave it to a neighbor. put in a gibby 57 classic. yank! og seymour pearly gates. ding ding ding!
was definitely a seymour guy and anti dimarzio when i bought a strat loaded with a JB bridge and classic stacks and thought it was pretty cool until i bought another strat loaded with a Dizzy tone zone bridge and virtual vintage neck/mid that sounded cooler. until i swapped out the TZ for a duncan 78. lost some sustain but gained lots of tone.
bought a zion floyd strat loaded with duncan holdsworth bridge and custom custom neck. GONG. sounded like playing bass underwater. tried a higher order 8.2 alnico which helped but the guitar was a klunker so i abandoned ship.
ps i was today years old when i discovered:
“The 59 neck pickup in the bridge position is said to be one of Allan Holdsworth’s favorite choices for his searing legato.” exactly what i did running a tom holmes 450 necker in the bridge. and allan and angus liked 7.8k at the bridge. exactly what my holmes is at. nothing has dethroned the clarity of my holmes since 2005 but i really like the tone specific randy rhoads 1974 custom set in my prs.
the end.
swapped the neck for a carvin ebony fb bolt on and went classic stack neck, hs-2 middle, pearly gates bridge. gigged that for a decade.
in the 90s i also bought a LP deluxe routed for a full bridge hummer and it came with a dimarzio distortion. yanked that sizzler and gave it to a neighbor. put in a gibby 57 classic. yank! og seymour pearly gates. ding ding ding!
was definitely a seymour guy and anti dimarzio when i bought a strat loaded with a JB bridge and classic stacks and thought it was pretty cool until i bought another strat loaded with a Dizzy tone zone bridge and virtual vintage neck/mid that sounded cooler. until i swapped out the TZ for a duncan 78. lost some sustain but gained lots of tone.
bought a zion floyd strat loaded with duncan holdsworth bridge and custom custom neck. GONG. sounded like playing bass underwater. tried a higher order 8.2 alnico which helped but the guitar was a klunker so i abandoned ship.
ps i was today years old when i discovered:
“The 59 neck pickup in the bridge position is said to be one of Allan Holdsworth’s favorite choices for his searing legato.” exactly what i did running a tom holmes 450 necker in the bridge. and allan and angus liked 7.8k at the bridge. exactly what my holmes is at. nothing has dethroned the clarity of my holmes since 2005 but i really like the tone specific randy rhoads 1974 custom set in my prs.
the end.
S
Scot
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Your guitar appears similar in basic construction to mine, with exception of the trem. No surprise to me yours sounds great with a JB - that’s a nice guitar. I wouldn’t think to even pull the JB from mine. When I bought it I specifically wanted a LP’esque thick sounding superstrat - it delivers.
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Dave L
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Isn´t the A2 JB basically that Demartini RTM option?
ChurchHill
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I'd think it'd be pretty close. The RTM is listed as 17.2k vs JB at 16.6k, so the wind is a little different. But, I'd bet it's pretty close.
scottosan
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They’re quite different
ChurchHill
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That's good to hear!
Cless357
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Do you know how is the Dokkenbucker/The Hunter/Exciter compared to the JB and DD ?
anomaly
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Doesn't Adam Jones use both, the Distortion and the JB?? In different guitars.
anomaly
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Does everyone find the JB congested in the lower mids? Me personally, I've never really encountered that problem, seems fine and really fat in the mids.
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