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JP Pickup Poll

Which JP pickup position is your favorite, preferred, or most used?

  • Bridge

    Votes: 15 25.4%

  • Split

    Votes: 10 16.9%

  • Neck

    Votes: 14 23.7%

  • Don't have a preferred or favorite or most used

    Votes: 20 33.9%
  • Total voters
    59
Eilif

Eilif

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For you JP players:

Which JP pickup position is your favorite, preferred, or most used?

1) Bridge
2) Split
3) Neck
4) Don't have a preferred or favorite of most used
 
One of the reasons I love the JP so much is because I find all three positions equally useful, and very distinct from each other.

This is why I have three so far with two more on the way! Well, this reason and the sickness I picked up from this forum!;) :D
 
It depends what I'm looking for. They are all different tools for different things. Generally, I'm on the bridge pickup.
 
I leave my pickup toggle in the middle probably 85% of the time. Occasionally I use the bridge. I never use the neck alone.
 
I dislike the bridge pickup for cleans, as it sounds a tad harsh to my ear. I love the split position for cleans-it adds a nice, percussive click to strums and individual notes. The neck pickup sounds similar to the bridge pickup, but is almost totally flat in terms of frequency response. It has a very round, full tone that I find to be nice when I want a more powerful clean sound.

I use the bridge and neck almost equally when crafting distortion sounds.

(My JP has the old PUs; I'm not qualified to talk about the D-Sonic.)
 
All three positions are pretty much equally used when I play my JP6; the bridge (the modified Steve's Special, not the D-Sonic) for heavy riffing and smaller chords (triads and the like), the middle for soft, bluesy leads and larger chords (or just mellower chording in general) and the neck pickup for creaaamy leads with a bit of agression in them. However, as I'm partial to leads (read: I am an egomaniac :D ) I voted for the neck pickup.
 
Bungo said:
One of the reasons I love the JP so much is because I find all three positions equally useful, and very distinct from each other.

This is why I have three so far with two more on the way! Well, this reason and the sickness I picked up from this forum!;) :D
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Like Bungo said (A long time ago), the great thing about the JP is that all three positions are equally useful.
 
I voted for the neck. If it were just most used I'd vote for the bridge, I keep it there for all my riffy-madness. But what I love most is being able to switch to the neck and crank up the gain just a bit for some tonal heaven in higher positions.
I don't use the middle pickup that much. I should though... it still sounds great
 
I use all 3 positions equally. I do love the split position for cleans and for a nice snappy type stratty sound. That was one of the things that drew me towards the JP. The coil sound as an option. I love al lthe sounds. I use the piezo quite alot these days in the band as well. I can turn both channels on my amp on and split the sound with the piezo/mag switch. Makes it very convinient in rehearsals cos I can monitor the levels myself instead of going through the PA.

The only thing I feel is lacking is the option to turn both humbuckers on. But i see that BFR JP-F1 has that option :-). Could a regular JP6 be modified to do this as well?
 
Katana6506 said:
I dislike the bridge pickup for cleans, as it sounds a tad harsh to my ear. I love the split position for cleans-it adds a nice, percussive click to strums and individual notes. The neck pickup sounds similar to the bridge pickup, but is almost totally flat in terms of frequency response. It has a very round, full tone that I find to be nice when I want a more powerful clean sound.

I use the bridge and neck almost equally when crafting distortion sounds.

(My JP has the old PUs; I'm not qualified to talk about the D-Sonic.)
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This explanation is right on the money. I couldn't have said it better!

Even with the D-Sonic, the description still holds true...
 
for me all 3 positons are equaly used. Neck for distortion solos bridge for powerchords and split for clean. The only guitar I have ever used and every position is usefull for me.
 
I think another factor that needs to be added is whether you have the D-Sonic and whether it's the JP7 or 6. For my JP7, I love the bridge pickup but it's too harsh with cleans. The mid-split sounds perfect for that. I have no idea how the D-Sonic would make the split-tone sound with the bar setup like the JP6, but I'm sure it's just as good.
 
I voted for split, but did so because I was thinking of split meaning a 50/50 split between bridge and neck. I never use the middle position of the three way switch. I usually play almost all of my rhythms on the bridge pickup and use the neck pickup for distorted singing solos, especially if I'm soloing on the high octave. I usually use the neck pickup for clean tones.
 
I leave mp jp6 in the middle pickup position about 80% of the time (100% for clean sounds). I use the bridge position for chunkier rhythms or when I want some "edge" on the notes of a solo. I use the neck position for mellower tones higher up on the neck.
 
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