JSett wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:19 pm
Surfysonic wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:16 pm
1. Kinman Surfmaster (may be a tad brighter than you want, though)
I found this, but it was immediately solved by using 500k pots instead of 1meg.
Good general "fix" for the lead circuit if you find it broken. I did this and never looked back, simple and great mod.
daysleeperjeff wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:46 pm
I just finished a build with Kinman Fatmasters. I love them so much I decided to build two more models to try all the Kinman Jazzmaster pickups. Just ordered a set of Surfmasters for my next one. Thickmasters will go in the third. My search is over for Jazzmaster pickups based on the Fatmasters alone.
I heard so much good press on this thread about Fatmasters that I looked them up and wow... yeah... for me if I was a Jazz player and I wanted to stay with dual singles, that would be an easy
yes please for what I'd fit. Damn. That's what I'm talking about which is fatten the sound without stealing all the offset goodness.
Funkybot wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:55 am
This is supposed to be the honeymoon phase, but being honest, I'm quite disappointed. These don't sound anything like my idea of 60's Jazzmaster pickups. Yeah, I can roll back the tone and dial the amp in for the increased brightness, but I was really thinking these things would be on par tonally with the Duncan's and they're not.
Oh man that's disappointing as hell, sorry to hear that and that the ordering was tedious. I've mostly had good luck when delving into offset modding, dealt with some great people, so that's a real shame.
Funkybot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:14 am
Ended up writing and recording a riff that turned into a song demo (sounded kinda like Siamese Dream era Pumpkins, though I'm not a big fan of theirs overall). So that's always a great sign with a new piece of gear.
Agreed - new gear being the gateway to different approaches and creative inspiration is kind of the point, I feel, otherwise it's just wasted money.
Funnily enough I wrote a hybrid QOTSA/Pumpkins riff driven neck pickup fuzztoned thing when I got the RAT clone recently,
Neither Whippersnapper Nor Wiseman which is fun to try and say out loud and even more fun to try and sing in the choruses
Funkybot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:14 am
So my opinion is improving. Seems I quite like them for distorted tones. The key so far is keeping the tone rolled back a bit. You may just be right in that I need more time to adjust to them. It was quite a dramatic difference and the extent of that caught me totally off guard.
At the risk of sounding like a naysayer - I'm not, I'm trying to see what you'd need to do to dial the best sound that'll make you play the hell out of the JM all the time, I will point out gain does hide a multitude of sins because it often compresses and lifts the bass up more, depending on the pedal (and let's be honest a Muff is wonderful at smashing the front end of an amp with loads of bass and gain if it's set a certain way), and it seems like that tone you're the most drawn to at the moment over the cleans.
2003 CIJ Fender Jaguar, sunburst (SJAG-3n neck, SHR-1b bridge, 500K lead circuit pots/speed knobs, Mastery bridge, Buzz Stop, Squier JM JM vibrato plate, modified whammy bar)
2022 MIM Fender Meteora, cosmic jade (top mounted input jack added)