Hi,
i bought an elite soloist with the JB (TB4) / SH2N combo. The guitar has an active circuit built in. I think from looking at the pcb that is directly connected
to the vol-pot it is a JE1200.
One problem i immediately recognized with that guitar was the weak output (weak high gain sound) and the mediocre if not weak sustain on that thing.
In one of my JDR94s i do have the same PUs but without the active-eq and it's got more "crunch" / output.
You can especially recognize that when playing some palms especially on higher frets.
My first thought: Maybe a bad piece of wood (it's also a surprisingly light guitar)?
Second: maybe that je1200 steals output (battery is ok, i alread checked that)?
When using the elite it feels like there is quite a lot of gain is missing.
I took a multimeter and measured values from 35.5 to 40 kΩ with both PUs depending of the eq-pot position. That active circuit seems to work with higher values?
The JB in my JDR measures about 17kΩ which seems normal values of the pure PU to me.
The next thing is that the guitar will only be completely muted when the toneknob of the active eq is set to the highest sounding side.:think:
Is this a normal behaviour of that je1200-circuit?
Any ideas / suggestions?
Greets
i bought an elite soloist with the JB (TB4) / SH2N combo. The guitar has an active circuit built in. I think from looking at the pcb that is directly connected
to the vol-pot it is a JE1200.
One problem i immediately recognized with that guitar was the weak output (weak high gain sound) and the mediocre if not weak sustain on that thing.
In one of my JDR94s i do have the same PUs but without the active-eq and it's got more "crunch" / output.
You can especially recognize that when playing some palms especially on higher frets.
My first thought: Maybe a bad piece of wood (it's also a surprisingly light guitar)?
Second: maybe that je1200 steals output (battery is ok, i alread checked that)?
When using the elite it feels like there is quite a lot of gain is missing.
I took a multimeter and measured values from 35.5 to 40 kΩ with both PUs depending of the eq-pot position. That active circuit seems to work with higher values?
The JB in my JDR measures about 17kΩ which seems normal values of the pure PU to me.
The next thing is that the guitar will only be completely muted when the toneknob of the active eq is set to the highest sounding side.:think:
Is this a normal behaviour of that je1200-circuit?
Any ideas / suggestions?
Greets
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