Can Jackson/Charvels Get good clean tones?

[dickdog1]

I am still trying to put together a couple of guitars, a dinky and a Charvel 375, but I am thinking these are mainly for distortion.Can A Jcksn/CHrvl get good cleantones too?

[shreddermon]

Nope. J/Cs are only good for "chugga chugga" metal rhythms and "meedly meedly" soloing tones. And you can only play them if you're badass-wanna-be with a viking beard and decked out in Hells' Angels biker paraphernalia and tats.

j/k. Of course you can get good clean tones from one.

[hippietim]

The only ones that get good clean tones are the Grover Jackson Legacy series and the new relics.

[markD]

any guitar can get a good clean tone, depending on your definition of clean and how hot your pickups are. all my j/c guitars get good clean tones.

[demeyes]

I can get a nice clean tone from all my J/C guitars. Once the amp is set up ok it shouldn't take long to get an acceptable clean from most guitars.

[straycat]

Hey go easy on the newbie.He has been listening to his buddies or some dumbass or a GC employee.At least he is smart enough to come here for a correct answer.
C/J play clean just like any other guitar.

[ADR]

I can get really clean tones with my San Dimas thru my Fender Pro Jr (15W tube). You have to use the guitars volume knob too,not just the amps volume.

[Inazone]

The best clean tone I've ever had was out of the neck pickup (Kent Armstrong JVA-1 humbucker) on a Jackson AT2T. I generally prefer single coils for cleans, but that pickup was simply awesome. Like a moron, I sold the guitar.

[garykeller15]

this is not true . i have a left handed charvel 475 with dimarzio super 3 in bridge and two fast track 2 in neck and middle and had it wired this way . i changed the midboost from the old piece of crap jackson electronics to another tone only wired to neck pickup while the other tone is only wired to the middle fast track 2 .i can get a great clean sound.

[paulbag]

I have 3 one hum Jacksons...they can all get nice cleans...

[Special-K]

Sure can get a good one but not a perfect one

[paulbag]

yes, but perfect to me may be shit to you!

[Sunbane]

Yes, you can get clean tones out of a Jackson, but you'll have to put the signal through lots of heavy duty resistors with heat sinks before you let it into the amp. This is the only way to get the signal down to a level where it will not cause a metal meltdown of legendary proportions. Then roll back the volume just a little, and voilà - clean tone!

Well...almost clean anyway; You may still hear faint shrieking overtones, like a wild Halford, gagged and trapped in a cage - struggling to get free and clawing at the restrains of the natural metal tone that is waiting to be unleashed.

But, once you have achieved your clean tone, you would find that you have rather limited use of it; As we all know, it is practically impossible to play slow and with "feeling" on a Jackson. Many have tried to play the blues on Jackson guitars, all with disastrous results. Once you have played your first two or three pentatonic licks, you will likely find yourself in the middle of a technical sweep lick - and as you try to back down, there will be a super sonic phrygian run, followed by a dive bomb and the mandatory "horns".

It's just the way these guitars were built man.

[Bengal65]

The only ones that get good clean tones are the Grover Jackson Legacy series and the new relics.

Yep, they aged the magnets in the pickups, that they now sound like a low output PAF! Real clean, but you need a Jazz Chourus 120 amp to hear them.

"Hey go easy on the newbie. He has been listening to his buddies or some dumbass or a GC employee. At least he is smart enough to come here for a correct answer."

Definitely True

[mjtripper]

I probably play my jackson clean more then not with a JB in the bridge and Jazz in the neck. One of the reasons I like the JB is the clean tone. I also have a pull pot set to split both pickups at once if I want it a little thinner. It splits the inner coils though so no hum.