Your fave Jaguar settings

[mediocreplayer]

In all of these Marr pictures it looks like he has the volume and tone on full, without modifying anything? I am looking at my Jag right now and unless I accidentally and very randomly have the knobs switched to match exactly those on his guitars, it looks identical.

[Feckless]

In all of these Marr pictures it looks like he has the volume and tone on full, without modifying anything? I am looking at my Jag right now and unless I accidentally and very randomly have the knobs switched to match exactly those on his guitars, it looks identical.

Maybe my JM Jaguar is the problem child but on mine the knobs are all the way down when the indicator line is pointing to the bridge and they max out with the lines pointing towards the insertion point for the trem bar. With my knobs aligned as per those initial Marr pictures, tone and volume are at about 2 out of 10. Certainly I have never taken off the knobs to reorient them so this is how they came to me.

[HNB]

I was always a fan of the neck pickup alone. Both seemed meh to me and bridge alone was too bright for me.

[Larsongs]

Is there a Thread like this for traditional Jags?

[Feckless]

Is there a Thread like this for traditional Jags?

This could be that thread!

[mbe]

I was always a fan of the neck pickup alone. Both seemed meh to me and bridge alone was too bright for me.

Me too. I like the rhythm setting with the tone rolled off quite a bit through overdrive for soloing and the neck pickup on the lead setting with the volume rolled off a little for rhythm. Having said that, the bridge pickup has a nice jangle with the strangle switch engaged through a decent compressor.

[FrankRay]

I roll off three quarters of the tone on the neck pickup and use the strangle switch. Sounds a bit like a les Paul. Wonderful. I also turn the rhythm circuit to zero and use it as a kill switch.

I never play both pickups together. Hate it.

[Larsongs]

Is there a Thread like this for traditional Jags?

This could be that thread!

I thought this was for Johnny Marr Jags.. Which isn't traditional set up....

Are there others listed here? Maybe I missed them?

[BoringPostcards]

Neck pickup only, neck pickup with strangle, and bridge alone without strangle.

I do use the rhythm circuit, and I rarely use both pickups together.

[mediocreplayer]

In all of my guitars, the most used position is the two pickups together. The Jag is no exception. I find that this is always the best sound for a nice clean/edge of breakup rhythm, which is most of my playing.

[BoringPostcards]

In all of my guitars, the most used position is the two pickups together. The Jag is no exception. I find that this is always the best sound for a nice clean/edge of breakup rhythm, which is most of my playing.

I do like both pickups on with my Jazzmaster and Tele, but I don't like it on the Jag for much besides surf stuff.

I also use clean to slightly overdriven tones most of the time, at least with my Fenders.
I always use my SG for anything requiring a more distorted tone.
What's your main amp? I go between a Princeton Reverb and a 40w Traynor tube combo, which has been modded beyond being the same amp anymore.

[mediocreplayer]

In all of my guitars, the most used position is the two pickups together. The Jag is no exception. I find that this is always the best sound for a nice clean/edge of breakup rhythm, which is most of my playing.

I do like both pickups on with my Jazzmaster and Tele, but I don't like it on the Jag for much besides surf stuff.

What's your main amp? I go between a Princeton Reverb and a 40w Traynor tube combo, which has been modded beyond being the same amp anymore.

I agree that the middle positions in the JM and Tele are more appealing than the Jag. My Jag is modded though to connect both of these pickups in parallel or in series, so I can get more out of it.

I used to play a Princeton too. I shelved that and now just play through modeling plugins because it is more convenient and I am not enough of an audiophile to notice any difference with the real thing. I just got the Neural DSP Cory Wong plugin, and that sounds better than any amp I have ever played.

[BoringPostcards]

In all of my guitars, the most used position is the two pickups together. The Jag is no exception. I find that this is always the best sound for a nice clean/edge of breakup rhythm, which is most of my playing.

I do like both pickups on with my Jazzmaster and Tele, but I don't like it on the Jag for much besides surf stuff.

What's your main amp? I go between a Princeton Reverb and a 40w Traynor tube combo, which has been modded beyond being the same amp anymore.

I agree that the middle positions in the JM and Tele are more appealing than the Jag. My Jag is modded though to connect both of these pickups in parallel or in series, so I can get more out of it.

I used to play a Princeton too. I shelved that and now just play through modeling plugins because it is more convenient and I am not enough of an audiophile to notice any difference with the real thing. I just got the Neural DSP Cory Wong plugin, and that sounds better than any amp I have ever played.

I know next to nothing about solid state or digital amps, so I wouldn't even know where to start, if I wanted to convert to non-tube amplification.
I dabbled with early Line 6 stuff in the late 90s, but the technology wasn't quite there yet.
I might look into it in the future. I can do my own maintenance for the most part, which I was forced to learn, because good amp techs are mega rare here.