New JP6 owner: general questions

[PeteDuBaldo]

Call Ernie Ball CS toll free! 866-823-2255 they are fantastic and a real person answers the phone.

And yes, the volume pot should be a gradual taper, although the last bit is a bit more sensitive.

[bkrumme]

My experiences with cusomter service have probably taken years off of my life.

I understand why you may be skeptical about CS since most of the time we get some call center in India or China and they're not really useful. But Ernie Ball CS isn't your typical Customer Service department. They can and will actually help. They have guys there who really know what's going on.

Are you saying your volume pot gradually increaes in volume throughout it's entire path then?

Like Pete said above, it is gradual throughout the taper of the pot, but at the end it is a little faster. This is a Logarithmic taper (audio) potentiometer after all. The taper is kinda like a concave curve from one end to the other. Check out this link: Potentiometers (Beginners' Guide to Pots)

Depending on your amp, effects, etc. the taper could be dulled or accentuated. For instance, on the high gain channel on my Bogner Uberschall it sounds like you described above, but on the clean channel with overdrive I can get some really cool swells that sound more "natural." The overall "level" of your signal will affect this as well.

[Dante]

THANKS FOR THE REPLIES!

I will try shimming the pickups. I will call for a warranty card, is it lifetime warranty?


What about the pots. My volume pot travels halfway with very little sound then bursts open at the last 1/5th of the turn. This could be the nature of audio taper? Has anyone replaced their pots or the tone cap to their liking?


Any bad experiences with switching to .009's?

dude, get the axe fixed before shimming anything. The D-Sonic is set so low is because it has tons of output, treble and attack(hey, it's a ceramic!) and if you raise it, you'll get even more of all three. it's going to get harder to play cleanly if you put it too high, the added attack will add noise to the start of each note and will drop off quickly thereafter, making metal crunch that much harder. i play with emgs on my other main axe and if you find the pups lame:

you got chronic GAS!
or your axe needs a medic!
or your hands might need a bit more time adjusting to the finnicky playing of the jp6. don't forget who designed the guitar in the first place.



but it's probably that first one...

[MikeVt]

My experiences with cusomter service have probably taken years off of my life. Nothing against Music Man, but unless your problem is commom (which I am trying to figure out) you may get bad advice from a single individual who is just paid to answer phones who will probably just refer me back to the place that sold the guitar. OR I could ask a whole group of people who actually own the same guitar and actually play guitar and some of which might have even changed the pots out to 500ks and noticed a big improvement in the tone of the pickups.

Are you saying your volume pot gradually increaes in volume throughout it's entire path then?

I would normally agree with you - but EB truly is different here. Most of the CS folks are even members of the board and post frequently. Bottom line, they are part of that 'whole group of people' you were referring to. You won't find that with outsourced CS...

Mike