need help with Jackson preamps or active electronic identify

[tonemonster]

I am looking at a used jackson, and I think its an early 90's and its definately a "professional" model made in Japan. Whats the deal with the electronics in them?? are those real "active" pickups? or just regular passives with some type of a on board preamp thing like the USA fusion models have? there is no toggle switch like the fusion has, just 3 knobs (volume, tone, tone, I presume) . It appears to have a small circuit board attached to the volume pot from what I can see and it has the 9V battery cable too. it has jackson labeled pickups too.



Just like my Charvel 475 I think.
I think that has passives with some type of on board preamp boost.

what can you folks tell me?? I think they switched to actives with the reflex pickups in the USA models. I am not sure.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!!!

[84sups]

It would have an active preamp. The pickups are not actives. If it has reflex pickups then they are active.

[StukaJU87]

Might be the mid-boost circuit like my model 6 and 90's RR Professional.

[DR5Guy]

Most likely the JE-1200 (http://audiozone.dk/cm/displayimage.php?album=66&pos=12)
mid-boost circuit. More appropriate name would be a noise-booster; almost totally useless IMHO, but your mileage may vary.

[MakeAJazzNoiseHere]

Yeah I would have to agree with DR5Guy.

On an old amp without a lot of gain it will make a nice different but once you've cranked the distortion, just like the EMG SPC (EMG's mid boost) you will just add a ton of noise without really changing the tone much at all.

I had one on my Charvel 475. I was so excited about it. Then, I pretty much never used it, because it wasn't really that great.