Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

[DonP]

Re: Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

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I have a 1992 RR1 with a J80 neck and J90C bridge. Very nice and fat. I like it so much, I need to find some other guitar to put my EMG into.

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I'll recommend this one again. I've been told the amp is a JE-1000 but I'm not sure how to tell. The guitar has a volume, tone, and the "active" control.

When the active control is turned down, it sounds like a normal passive guitar. But with it full on, it has a nice full mid. The lower end fattens up as well.

Like I said I had wanted to put in EMG's in this guitar, but the stock electronics sound so good I'm leaving it original.

[cobhc]

Re: Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

i have the vol sweep turned all the way up, and all 3 of the switches all the way up

[cobhc]

Re: Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

looking again at your post, you may have the treble position switch on, and thus thats y ur getting a lot of highs

[Zerberus]

Re: Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

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....Jackson had the JE-1500 electronics. That was the one where you could adjust one of the knobs and it gave you a wah wah type shift in sound.

Thanks again, Dave

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This was the JE-1200 Mid boost, the 1500 only had 2 pots, Vol + Tone [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Same holds for you, DonP... If you have 3 pots, you have a JE-1200....

Here´s a quickie Identifier chart..

1 pot: JE-1000 "bare"
1 pot and a switch: JE-1000 w/ gain boost switch
2 pots: JE-1000 w/ tone
2 pots and a switch: either JE-1000 w/ tone + Boost or a JE-1500... Identifiable by opening cavity, if one pot is concentric it´s a JE-1500
3 pots: JE-1200 mid boost

These are the configutartions Jackson made the preamps in.... although there are certainly a few out there that have at least tried to mod them, maybe someone succeeded [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[poolboydave]

Re: Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

Thanks Zerberus. Actually I still have the original Jackson Electronics user manual that came with my USA Custom Graphic Dinky Strat.

My dinky strat has the JE-1200 mid boost. That guitar has 3 pots. Volume, Tone, and then Mid boost. It has just a single humbucker, which is the J80C. That guitar sounds GREAT!!

The Jackson I had the JE-1500 with the J50BC had 2 pots and mini toggle switch. Flip the switch and you change the sound of the guitar. Turn the Tone knob back and forth real fast and it almost sounded like a wah pedal. The picture of the JE-1500 in the manual looks identical to what I pulled out of the Jackson.

Thanks, Dave

[jtr]

Re: Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

Try putting the switches in different positions. The 3rd one is probably the treble boost switch turn it off and or turn on the others. Good luck, John

[nor]

Re: Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

I do a 'scoop' with the gain pot at 50%.

[poolboydave]

Re: Need help with JE-1000 Active Electronics

Well I tried both a Dimarzio Tone Zone and a J90C I had laying around and I loved the sound of either one over the J80C that was originally installed.

Of course, however, I had a pretty good buzz with either the Tone Zone or J90C. I don't know what I could have done wrong. I soldered the HOT to the 5-way switch and the Green & Bare wires to the ground, which is that shield plate on the bottom of the control cavity. The same spot where the J-200 single coils are grounded.

Anyone have any suggestions on what I could have done wrong? Should have grounded those pickups to the Volume?

Thanks, Dave