Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
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Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
I have a Jagmaster and I want to change pickups because the stock ones are:
- too weak
- too bright
So I'm looking for pickups with:
- stronger output
- warmer
- max 50$ for each pickup
I've looked a lot online but the choice is too large... any suggestion?
- too weak
- too bright
So I'm looking for pickups with:
- stronger output
- warmer
- max 50$ for each pickup
I've looked a lot online but the choice is too large... any suggestion?
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Re: Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
What kind of pickups are you looking for? Posting some type or size criteria might help out anyone willing to make suggestions. Humbuckers, wide range humbuckers, P-90's. How many and which for what positions?
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Re: Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
I'm looking for humbuckers, both positions.Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:06 amWhat kind of pickups are you looking for? Posting some type or size criteria might help out anyone willing to make suggestions. Humbuckers, wide range humbuckers, P-90's. How many and which for what positions?
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Re: Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
oh oh oh. i have jagmasters. ask me.
this is my vista. it has the stock pickups. they work really well with this guitar.
if you count this as a jagmaster, this has an artec wrhb style pickup in the neck and an unknown pickup in the bridge. it sounds pretty decent.
this has a duncan designed pickups in it. the bridge is from a squier strat. the neck is from something i dont remember. it sounds like built to spill to me.
this has the artec filtertron in the neck and a copy of a univox ripper pickup in the bridge. it slays.
i should ask what kinda music you're playing. that might help.
this is my vista. it has the stock pickups. they work really well with this guitar.
if you count this as a jagmaster, this has an artec wrhb style pickup in the neck and an unknown pickup in the bridge. it sounds pretty decent.
this has a duncan designed pickups in it. the bridge is from a squier strat. the neck is from something i dont remember. it sounds like built to spill to me.
this has the artec filtertron in the neck and a copy of a univox ripper pickup in the bridge. it slays.
i should ask what kinda music you're playing. that might help.
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Re: Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
I play 60s rock and blues, and I want humbuckers that sound fatter and warmer.
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Re: Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
With the risk of being boring and predictable, you can probably find some Super Distortions used for 100$ a set that should do you right. Same thing with a Seymour Duncan SD'59 & Jazz set.
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Re: Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
Actually a good place to start might be figuring out what pickups are currently in the Jagmaster so you have a better idea what you don't want. What year is it and where is it made? That'll probably help track down the exact specs of the pickups assuming they're the originals.
Also, is it a 25,5" or 24" scale one, since this has some bearing on the base tone you have to work with. 25,5" is going to sound like a Strat, 24" is going to sound like a somewhat darker, warmer, more percussive and less sustainy Strat if conventional wisdom is anything to go on.
Also, is it a 25,5" or 24" scale one, since this has some bearing on the base tone you have to work with. 25,5" is going to sound like a Strat, 24" is going to sound like a somewhat darker, warmer, more percussive and less sustainy Strat if conventional wisdom is anything to go on.
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Re: Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
These are the original specs: 24''scale, alder body, Duncan designed humbuckersCeylon wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:04 amActually a good place to start might be figuring out what pickups are currently in the Jagmaster so you have a better idea what you don't want. What year is it and where is it made? That'll probably help track down the exact specs of the pickups assuming they're the originals.
Also, is it a 25,5" or 24" scale one, since this has some bearing on the base tone you have to work with. 25,5" is going to sound like a Strat, 24" is going to sound like a somewhat darker, warmer, more percussive and less sustainy Strat if conventional wisdom is anything to go on.
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Re: Replacement pickups for Jagmaster
Keep in mind I have no personal experience with these, but the GFS VEH (vintage extra hot) sounds like it could be about right to fatten up a vibrato-equipped guitar without going into insanely high output. Disregard the Eddie Van Halen brown sound sales pitch and look at what the pickups do and see if that doesn't sound about right. They're Alnico 5 too, which might be preferable over Alnico 2 (though both correct for 60's PAFs afaik) in a shorter scale guitar.strasurf wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:38 amThese are the original specs: 24''scale, alder body, Duncan designed humbuckersCeylon wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:04 amActually a good place to start might be figuring out what pickups are currently in the Jagmaster so you have a better idea what you don't want. What year is it and where is it made? That'll probably help track down the exact specs of the pickups assuming they're the originals.
Also, is it a 25,5" or 24" scale one, since this has some bearing on the base tone you have to work with. 25,5" is going to sound like a Strat, 24" is going to sound like a somewhat darker, warmer, more percussive and less sustainy Strat if conventional wisdom is anything to go on.
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