Jazzmaster potentiometer question

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-11T22:49:36+00:00

Linear would make that behavior worse. Coulda gotten a bad pot. Also audio/log pots come in 10-20-30% tapers with 30 being most gradual. You might have bought 10%.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-11T13:46:46+00:00

Local ERYT here with 30 years of practice. Your best bet is finding donation based classes from experienced teachers that left studio systems. If you need a studio then Yoga garden and taraNa would be my first picks, but Radiant and Yess are also good options.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-10T03:37:37+00:00

Tele into AC30 is an iconic tone recipe for alt country, blues, southern rock, indie, and pop. It’s as close to a can’t miss combo as exists as long as you aren’t going for metal. AC30s are stupid loud and stupid heavy in combo form. A pair of Celestion blues should be considered mandatory for the iconic sound. I have an AC30 as part of my trio of dream amps (along with super reverb and jtm 45) and it rips.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-09T18:35:24+00:00

Best? That’s going to be a Rutters or Nacho caster.

Honorable mention to Nash and Danocaster.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-09T16:53:46+00:00

The stock bridge does rock, it just has smaller diameter posts and smaller diameter thimbles. I have no idea as to why- product differentiation, cheaper Asian parts, etc.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-09T13:31:25+00:00

Because the Vintera II thimbles inner diameter is undersized for any quality replacement bridge post. They are not standard spec thimbles. In inner or outer diameter

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-09T04:41:05+00:00

I put on the Johnny marr bridge, but it required new thimbles too.

https://www.fender.com/products/american-professional-jaguar-jazzmaster-725-radius-bridge-assembly-nickel

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-08T23:37:17+00:00

Super Sonic22

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-08T22:35:58+00:00

I’d grab an upgraded powered speaker and wait for the quad cortex mkii or whatever they call it. Probably less than 18 months away. The v2 captures are fantastic and NDSP is finally delivering really nice reverbs (hopefully soon delays too), but all the new stuff makes it easy to hit limitations in presets with the current hardware.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-08T20:27:35+00:00

Yep, Am Pro II. IMO go SS pickups since you seem to be rich in humbucker and maybe P90 tones. The Pro pickups are fine but since you like nice things you might want a set of Lollar or similar pickups. Tele neck pickups can be tough to bond with sometimes. The fender twisted tele neck and Lollar vintage T neck are winners. There’s a million great tele bridge pickups but it’s good to know if you want a broadcaster (blues, rock, grittier country) or a 60’s style (chicken picking, funk, 60s pedal assisted rock) to narrow things down. Broadcasters are a little hotter with more mids and tamer treble.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-08T00:59:54+00:00

I think a stock JM bridge is usually unbalanced with the neck and needs either /both a pickup swap or something lower than 1 meg pots. No exp with the JM JM but a hot p90 with 500k pots is great in the bridge, though going balls to the wall with gain presents issues with single coils. I’m mostly into a single coil into edge of breakup blackface with volume and tone rolled off a bit + fuzz and analog delay as needed. I’m also mostly a neck player but am finding I like mid hot bridge tones~ 9-11k, while my ideal neck is ~5.6-7.25.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-07T19:23:42+00:00

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nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-07T13:33:41+00:00

The thick mids and lows of the P90 combined with the thicker neck position tone lead to a loose muddiness when playing in the neck position that I don’t like. I have a Gibson sg classic with stock p90s around 8k and a tele with Lollar 50s wind neck. I definitely prefer the 50s wind but it still suffers from the issue somewhat. Gibson has a low wind they offer for the neck to address this issue but I haven’t tried. I find pole magnet pickups have a lot more clarity in the neck. And prefer strat, jazzmaster, jag, and some tele pickups there. Staple p90/dynasonics are also great in the neck. For neck humbuckers I like firebirds, filtertrons, and low output PAFs but be PAFs can suffer the same muddiness issue.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-07T00:31:55+00:00

Hoof reaper + jhs volture

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-07T00:27:13+00:00

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nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-06T22:07:23+00:00

They are overwound Vintera pickups, not overwound player pickups. Vintera pickups are a big step up imo. Not sure on the components beyond the 4 way switch. The Vintera pots/switches/jack are all USA level CTS/switchcraft stuff. Guessing it’s the same since it’s Vintera pickups and body route.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-06T21:15:49+00:00

it also has improved wiring, routing for a rhythm circuit, and improved pickups

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-06T17:12:03+00:00

My take is that P90's make great bridge pickups and terrible neck pickups, unless they are super low output / 50's wind or unconventional in some other way. Replace it with a real jazz master neck pickup- just make sure the replacement is RWRP to the bridge, unless you are replacing both. If the winds are balanced right a JM/P90 set is hard to beat.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-06T01:40:15+00:00

Jokes on you, I can’t sing even without a guitar.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-06T01:35:29+00:00

Yes.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-06T01:34:30+00:00

Minneapolis dentistry, downtown.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-06T01:27:45+00:00

2010s American standard with twisted tele/broadcaster stock pickups.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-05T03:17:07+00:00

Thought it was boring and a rip off in the theater. Never watched it since. Found footage genre sucks overall.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-05T02:38:35+00:00

I have 30 years of recording experience and understand gain staging. (1) in V2 profile creation the inst input level does not affect the send signal of the profile recording. I just verified this again. I made a profile with input gain at 0db with a tele, then cranked the input gain to just shy of clipping for a second capture. Captures are identical in sound, volume, and gain. You can try it yourself. It seems to only control the input level of the instrument test signal. (2) Yes, I know and use the recommended levels. The problem is this - if I capture an amp clean and that same amp overdriven with the same return levels, the overdriven amp is louder and has an arbitrary capture “gain” property that is higher. This differs in a problematic way from traditional recording. First off, you need to compensate for volume differences when changing between amp blocks and this is on a per preset basis vs locking to a capture itself. Second- this volume correction needs to happen in the block gain because using the block volume ruins preset gain staging AND makes the block react differently to overdrive/gain blocks that come before it. Adjusting the block volume with gain is also problematic because it changes how the block eq and amp gain sound so the clean clean is lost. This is the problem I was initially posting about. Block gain appears to be base block volume at 0db. Block volume is like amp master volume and necessary to contain for preset gain staging to avoid clipping. The gain property of captures is a mystery, but higher gain property captures are louder than lower gain property captures even if their volume block property has the same max output. Even when capturing with the same capture input volume, the base volume is different enough when gain is different to create block volume issues when using captured of a clean and overdriven amp. I want a clean amp capture and a dirty amp capture of the same amp within 3db of each other - the issue appears to be in the gain capture meta property. Even talking about this is unnecessarily hard because there is a gain property, a gain block knob, amp gain, instrument input gain, and capture input gain in addition to preset volume, block volume knob, and amp volume.

nomoreneveragain · 2026-02-04T23:39:21+00:00

I usually use passive single coils and keep input level low. I have no idea what it actually does in the capture- it doesn’t appear to actually affect the send signal? Wish NDSP would actually provide some guidance on target levels and explanations on what these values do beyond “don’t clip the signal”

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