Jackson pickups

[Nightbat]

Their "OK" not as good as say a bill and becky

The Jackson Blade pickup is a J-85. I agree with Mr. Lawson. It was an okay pickup IMO but not great.

too much treble, not enough mid for my taste.

[unknown]

Any info on the J-70 that was in my PS-4? To me that sounded pretty close to a Bill Lawrence L-500. A bright pickup.

[straycat]

The J-95 came in the model 88 Charvels and model 5's only and is a broad banded pick up and works great in mahogony bodied guitars.Its a fat sounding pick up but not what I would call a mushy pick up at all I can get some sting out of my 88.
The J-85 DR is a killer pick up in alder or poplar tons of mid range IMO.
The J-50's are A5 magnets.
Straight J-90 is an A5 too and quite rare I've only seen one in the last 15 years. J-90C is ceramic as we all know.

[tcwil8]

Earlier poster asked for an opinion on the blade humbucker. We provided our opinions thus the IMO notation. No need to post shit like this especially since you didn't contribute anything positive to the post. Thanks for the contribution.

[VitaminG]

Earlier poster asked for an opinion on the blade humbucker. We provided our opinions thus the IMO notation. No need to post shit like this especially since you didn't contribute anything positive to the post. Thanks for the contribution.

"I'm with stupid" means he agrees with all the quoted posts. Instead of jumping on him, you should be thanking him for his support.

[VitaminG]

this catalogue scan has descriptions of many of Jackson's pickups, circa early-90s: http://audiozone.dk/guitargallery/in...1992Page26.jpg

and I'm with straycat - I like the J85 in my Fusion SS. I'm not sure if it has J100s or J110s in it but they are my favourite Jackson singles too. I want to say they are J110s, because they sound better than the pickups in my M1A

[straycat]

My 1A was a little flubby sounding so I installed an RS kit and the J-100's really responded well to better pots and caps.
The kit opened up the pickups and they had better over all tone.A little cripsper and more bell like.
I always remove the tone from the middle pick up and wire the tone to the bridge pick up so I can control the bite on the bridge.
J-100's are really nice pick ups IMO.

[VitaminG]

I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the suggestion

[tcwil8]

"I'm with stupid" means he agrees with all the quoted posts. Instead of jumping on him, you should be thanking him for his support.

I ran out of midol that day and apparently I am stupid. Please ignore my PMS post Nightbat.

[Nightbat]

"I'm with stupid" means he agrees with all the quoted posts. Instead of jumping on him, you should be thanking him for his support.

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I ran out of midol that day and apparently I am stupid. Please ignore my PMS post Nightbat.

NP

(I've seen more people get that emoticon's meaning wrong)

[tcwil8]

Internet etiquette
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NP

(I've seen more people get that emoticon's meaning wrong)

Embarrassing myself is probably not the best way to learn but it is effective. I’ll never make that mistake again. Thank you gentlemen.

[oakfloor]

Well anyway back to the subject at hand, I put a "J-95" marked "5A" in the bridge of my Jackson, and with a little hight adjustment im well pleased so far. Seems to have a nice balance overall with a little more clartiy in the midrange with a little more twang. Im still looking for the "J-90" thats in my collection somewhere. Thanks for all your input.

[bratfink]

Just to carry on with the theme.

The 5A may be Alnico 5. Not sure why they'd put what model it goes in. Stranger things have happened, but I'm pretty sure it's Alnico 5. The others probably all do have A5s in them, but some of the lower output models (necks) may have had A2s.

Wish someone made a box that you put a magnet in and it tells you if it's an A2, 3, 4, 5 or 8 or ceramic and what grade.

Newc, I have 2 sets of J80c's. One set has a sticker that says 5A, another set has a sticker says 3A. My question is; what's the difference in sound and construction? Which will be hotter etc?

I had (I guess wrongly) assumed that they simply came out of Model 3 or Model 5 guitars. Now I am beginning to understand there is more to the Jackson pickup range than just the letter codings and there are infact different shades of grey. :think:

Newc, you appear to be the knowledge center on tech bits, perhaps JCF should give you your own section, "Ask Newc" or summut like that.

[oakfloor]

http://audiozone.dk/guitargallery/?p=gallery#/content/Guitar_catalog_scans/Jackson_Charvel/0020_electronics_pickups_manuals/1988_Jackson_Electronics/JackElec1988Page04_05.jpg

[J_A / 540s]

Yep.. There are N & B models.Of the 50. I also assume neck & bridge. For others like the 80 or 90 C indicates ceramic magnet & no letter is alnico.

The 5A sticker means it came out of a model 5a.. or should have. Jackson used to have a chart with the pickup descriptions but its been over a decade since i've seen it