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Alden Jazzmaster Copy
- StevenO
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
If I were say, given one for free, I would totally go sonic youth on it. ![Smiley :)](./images/smilies/smiley.gif)
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- Naturality
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
Well, it's handmade by a proffessional luthier which boasts it's qualities and it was pickup phasing instead of the rythm circuit whoch I quite like.
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
I think the first thing I'm going to do is change the tremolo (not tailpiece..... yet) to a longer one
- dinosaur
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
Well not that it matters, but there is no way on Earth that thing is handmade.
And you might have trouble finding a bar that would fit that tailpiece. I doubt a fender arm would fit or anything obvious like that.
And you might have trouble finding a bar that would fit that tailpiece. I doubt a fender arm would fit or anything obvious like that.
- berlinbetty
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
I've never found a use for out-of-phase pickups. Does anyone know of a somewhat famous use of out-of-phase pickups, so I can hear exactly what I'm supposed to do with that feature?
And I, too, thought my monitor had a problem with that pink guitar. I'm glad I'm not the only one...![Cheesy :D](./images/smilies/cheesy.gif)
And I, too, thought my monitor had a problem with that pink guitar. I'm glad I'm not the only one...
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One more guitar, then I'll practice!
- Naturality
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
Steve Albini uses out of phase pickups a bucketload, and if you put use two out of phase pickups at the same time they can create a humbucker effect
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
Do you think I'd be better off with one of these?:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-GALACTICA-P ... dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-QUADRA-STAR ... dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-GALACTICA-P ... dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-QUADRA-STAR ... dZViewItem
- mynameisjonas
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
well that depends on the polarity of the magnets. usually when you have two pickups in a guitar (jazzmasters, jaguars, telecasters...) one of them is reverse wound/reverse polarity, so running them out of phase will not create a humbucking effect.Naturality wrote: Steve Albini uses out of phase pickups a bucketload, and if you put use two out of phase pickups at the same time they can create a humbucker effect
however, if you have two identical pickups wired out of phase you will get a humbucking effect, along with a thin, metallic sound.
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
I see, still though Steve Albini uses out of phases p/us a lot and he gets great sounds
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
A pickup can only be in or out of phase with respect to another pickup.Naturality wrote: use two out of phase pickups at the same time
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
i would say go with the 2nd one but i dont like paisly haNaturality wrote: Do you think I'd be better off with one of these?:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-GALACTICA-P ... dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-QUADRA-STAR ... dZViewItem
still havent thought of a signature
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
yeah it´s a pretty cool sound. i actually have the pickups in one of my JMs wired out of phase at the moment. i actually find it quite useful. the middle position has about the same "twang" as the bridge pickup alone, but with some.. er... weirdness.. added to it.Naturality wrote: I see, still though Steve Albini uses out of phases p/us a lot and he gets great sounds
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
I'm gonna put mod it a fair bit though, humbucker bridge p/u with North Coil/Parallel/Series switching on it.
This is similar, but I wouldn't get it http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-TAURUS-RETR ... dZViewItem
This is similar, but I wouldn't get it http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-TAURUS-RETR ... dZViewItem
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
I've been thinking about something mezcalhead said,
and I have decided to go for an MIJmezcalhead wrote: Look at it this way: if you had the Rondo, would you still want a Jazzmaster? .. and vice versa?
- StevenO
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Re: Alden Jazzmaster Copy
Yeah, it's best to get what you really truly want, first. All these cheap and fun guitars are nice, but if you don't have anything really special to go back to, they're not fun. You can forgive the cheap guitars of their flaws when you know that you have something really good in your stable of guitars.