Pictures added - 1964 jag with reinstalled electronic, guitar doesn´t sound right
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:42 am
Need help from offset geeks! I have posted here post about 65 neck pickup that I installed into my 64 jag. It still doesn´t sound right. Guitar still has piercing tone, too much high frequencies and lack of mid frequencies. I tried to block of the piercing frequencies both ways (amp and on guitar pot), neither way has the result I want. If go down with high frequencies, the sounds is too dull.
I still beleive that this jag has great potential, it is incredibly resonant and balanced allover the fretboard.
Summary: body and neck original, route filled with plastic material around the neck pickup. There is also another route along the pickups filled in with wood. I switched master bridge for some classical bridge (not sure production or year, but it helped to get a bit thicker tone). Repaired body crack next to neck heal. The electronics was reinstalled before I bought it, not everything is original. Pots in main circuit seem to be original, see the picture. Neck pickup is black bottom from 65. (With resistance of 6.2ohm)
Guitar was sanded. Weight is 7.94 pounds
Body:
This jag has a lot of wear and went through very hard life obviously, some dents in wood are filled with plastic, see pics. Also, 4 holes for the neck-body joint are bit more loose than you would expect, maybe this can have impact on sound..
Other non original / missing parts:
Some parts are non-original, bridge, pickguard, whammy bar, decal, most of tuners, some dots were prolly changed for new, no mute, Missing metal plate under the pickguard.
Electronics
before I bought the jag, ilectronics was completely taken out and rewired from scratch. Some wires seem to go different ways (are connected to diifferent places) than in original wiring. I am not expert for electronics, just what from I see when I look the wires. Eg. the lead wire from neck pickup goes to the switch on rythm circuit. On the other hand, both circuits switching works normally, you can get that darker tone at the rythm circuit and bright tones at the lead circuit pickups options. Strangl switch works too. Pots, cap and resistor at the lead circuit look original to me. The pots of the rythm circuit seem to be non original. to me. Neck pickup from May 1965, Bridge pickup some newer reissue.
Guitar sounds really well acoustically when not plugged in to amp (better than most pre-cbs offsets I have played). Neck has absolutely great feel.
Maybe a change in electronics, different capacitor, pots, or wiring would help?
I will post here some pics later. Is it possible to post here sound file too?
I still beleive that this jag has great potential, it is incredibly resonant and balanced allover the fretboard.
Summary: body and neck original, route filled with plastic material around the neck pickup. There is also another route along the pickups filled in with wood. I switched master bridge for some classical bridge (not sure production or year, but it helped to get a bit thicker tone). Repaired body crack next to neck heal. The electronics was reinstalled before I bought it, not everything is original. Pots in main circuit seem to be original, see the picture. Neck pickup is black bottom from 65. (With resistance of 6.2ohm)
Guitar was sanded. Weight is 7.94 pounds
Body:
This jag has a lot of wear and went through very hard life obviously, some dents in wood are filled with plastic, see pics. Also, 4 holes for the neck-body joint are bit more loose than you would expect, maybe this can have impact on sound..
Other non original / missing parts:
Some parts are non-original, bridge, pickguard, whammy bar, decal, most of tuners, some dots were prolly changed for new, no mute, Missing metal plate under the pickguard.
Electronics
before I bought the jag, ilectronics was completely taken out and rewired from scratch. Some wires seem to go different ways (are connected to diifferent places) than in original wiring. I am not expert for electronics, just what from I see when I look the wires. Eg. the lead wire from neck pickup goes to the switch on rythm circuit. On the other hand, both circuits switching works normally, you can get that darker tone at the rythm circuit and bright tones at the lead circuit pickups options. Strangl switch works too. Pots, cap and resistor at the lead circuit look original to me. The pots of the rythm circuit seem to be non original. to me. Neck pickup from May 1965, Bridge pickup some newer reissue.
Guitar sounds really well acoustically when not plugged in to amp (better than most pre-cbs offsets I have played). Neck has absolutely great feel.
Maybe a change in electronics, different capacitor, pots, or wiring would help?
I will post here some pics later. Is it possible to post here sound file too?
