Control Options for a Jazzmaster Body- Advice Needed

[Watchie]

Okay, I have a rear routed Jazzmaster body on the bench, with ONLY a Strat/Tele style toggle switch slot having been routed.  Given I am new to all this, I need some sage advice as to the controls recommended (e.g., V - T only, or V-T-- T, or V-V-T-T)?

The body is routed for humbuckers at the neck and bridge, but likely I will use a P90 (humbucker sized) in the neck.

Thoughts?

 

[swarfrat]

That one is kind of completely up to personal preference. I like VT, and it is a common one. VVTT usually ends up with some interaction between controls, but its also very common.

 

[rockskate4x]

It's up to you! Are you going to want to switch between pickups at different volume or tone settings? Do you even use your tone knobs? Answering these and similar questions should help you decide.

 

[OzziePete]

How hot is the P90 you are thinking of putting in? Some P90s (or humbucker shaped derivatives) go better with the 250K pot and others go better with 500K pots. If you can have the same values as the humbucker briudge pickup then I'd only go for a Master V-T knob settting.

But being rear rout, you have plenty of space in the control cavity....front routed JMs are a tight channel.....

 

[stubhead]

I grew up with an SG wired V-V-T-T, and it's really useful - ONCE YOU GET USED TO IT. I have it on most of my "real" guitars and I keep the 3-way in the in-between position at least 2/3 of the time. It's actually quite rare that the neck tone isn't full up, but the whole system is interactive - I've tried wiring a guitar with volume only for the neck PU and V-T for the bridge, and it didn't DO me, for some reason. The key to it is set the volumes around 7, and the bridge tone around 6 or so, 500K pots all around and a bright rig otherwise. Most of the famous English Les Paul guys had a treble booster in there, Duane Allman & Carlos Santana (on the first four albums at least) used bright-ish hi-fi speakers with less of a high-frequency rolloff cliff than Celestions or such. Altec-Lansings for Duane, JBL's for Santana (IMO, everything he did after Caravanserai was a rehash - like the Stones, his discography through the early 70's made the man).

So you set up your amp to sound perfect with the guitar rolled back a ways - then everything you need is at your fingertips. Duane's solo on the Live at the Fillmore "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is your master class - listen to what he's doing. Page could work the hell out of that too. Adding a series-single-parallel switch on your humbucker's even more stuff. The pickups are highly interactive, but that's the point of it. Here's a concert that's better than the Fillmore album, the sound's lesser but the playing's better - it was the closing concert of the Fillmore East.

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/AllmanBrothersBand1971-06-27FillmoreEastNYC.asx
(when Dickie was playing well, Duane took it personal, like - the slide solo at 11:10 - Derek WHO? :toothy12: Do NOT skip ahead to 27:50.)

Somebody just dumped a MOTHERLOAD of Allmans w/Duane recently, dig:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/

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