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Adam Klintworth
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Seymour Duncan JB Magnet Swap Video - CLIPS ONLY
This is the "Clips Only" version of my JB magnet swap video, found here: ua-cam.com/video/NkKMSiFme9A/v-deo.html
When I was building my Warmoth "Partscaster" Strat during the COVID lockdown of 2020, I wanted to experiment with different types of Alnico magnets to find out how they'd sound in my Seymour Duncan JB. This video will compare the following magnets in a variety of clean, crunch, lead and Overdriven lead tones:
Alnico 2 (Polished)
Alnico 5 (Polished)
Alnico 5 (Unoriented, Polished)
Alnico 5 (Roughcast)
Alnico 8 (Polished)
The Signal Chain:
Warmoth Strat w/JB (SH-4) Trembucker
Abasi Pathos/Horizon Devices Precision Drive
PRS Archon 25 w/Emperor 1x12 extension cabinet
Celestion Vintage 30
Audix i5 Dynamic Microphone
Focusrite Scarlett Solo Interface
Video Guide!
0:00 Clean
0:55 Crunch
2:43 Lead
4:58 Lead 2
5:38 OD Lead
When I was building my Warmoth "Partscaster" Strat during the COVID lockdown of 2020, I wanted to experiment with different types of Alnico magnets to find out how they'd sound in my Seymour Duncan JB. This video will compare the following magnets in a variety of clean, crunch, lead and Overdriven lead tones:
Alnico 2 (Polished)
Alnico 5 (Polished)
Alnico 5 (Unoriented, Polished)
Alnico 5 (Roughcast)
Alnico 8 (Polished)
The Signal Chain:
Warmoth Strat w/JB (SH-4) Trembucker
Abasi Pathos/Horizon Devices Precision Drive
PRS Archon 25 w/Emperor 1x12 extension cabinet
Celestion Vintage 30
Audix i5 Dynamic Microphone
Focusrite Scarlett Solo Interface
Video Guide!
0:00 Clean
0:55 Crunch
2:43 Lead
4:58 Lead 2
5:38 OD Lead
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When I was building my Warmoth "Partscaster" Strat during the COVID lockdown of 2020, I wanted to experiment with different types of Alnico magnets to find out how they'd sound in my Seymour Duncan JB. This video will compare the following magnets in a variety of clean, crunch, lead and Overdriven lead tones: Alnico 2 (Polished) Alnico 5 (Polished) Alnico 5 (Unoriented, Polished) Alnico 5 (Roug...
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ENGL Thunder 50 - High Gain w/Green Rhino and Compressor
Finally a proper demo of this product. Looking forward to get mine for my JTM Studio 😊
Lead tone demo w/o lead guitar? You’re kidding, right?
@@vicferrari89 always been more of a rhythm player to be honest. You’ve got killer chops btw 👍
Damn Dude I love that riff and that sound 🤟❤️🔥
I use a modeler with an expression pedal. I assign the pedal to a volume pedal and run the modeler through the FX loop. It works perfectly.
Can you still use the tone controls on the amp? Or just the presence and reverb?
Yep! All tone controls will still work.
Adam - Great explanation thank you for this!
Question, would my EHX linear power boost pedal do the same? How is it different? Thanks
FedEx man delivered mine today. I absolutely LOVE IT. • I dimed my Marshall DSL100H untra gain 1 and could turn the volume all the way off. As my ears could stand it I could crank it to where I was comfortable. • No buzzing or noise, perfect • High quality product with a high Ed pot Highly recommend running this in your fx loop. Do not hesitate to, it’s like $65 on zzounds or Sweetwater
Love to hear this! It’s a game changer for sure.
@@deltarider99 it really is. Rare is it a very affordable simple device delivers so much.
On another video a guy used his EQ in the loop so I tried it. Worked like a charm. The only thing is you can’t go down to quiet, like your Marshall below 1. I took my DSL100H to 6 on Ultra Gain and with my EQ it lowered the volume to probably just below 2. I’m curious if you crank your big tube amp to say 5-7 or so, can you lower the volume to bedroom level? Wondering if this JHS box can lower my volume lower than my 7 band Boss EQ
I was looking at a more expensive attenuator and think I may go this way. JHS makes awesome quality products
Attenuators are awesome when you’re dealing with an amp that utilizes a lot of power amp distortion, but for these types of high gain amps where the preamp tubes provide most of the distortion, something like the JHS box is a good option. Especially since it’s cheap and may end up solving the issue without having to shell out hundreds (if not thousands) on an attenuator.
@@deltarider99Hi! Greetings from India 🙏. Need your help. Where should the JHS Box be exactly placed in the Effects loop - At the Start or the End ? Secondly, Can you use JHS little box with your Modulation pedals in the Effects loop?
@@Aditya_Paliwal_9hey there ! I typically run mine at the very end of the loop, after all pedals. I didn’t have any issues with modulation pedals in the loop, so you should be ok!!
Am I the only one that thinks the tone sounds different?😅
You’re not wrong. It loses a bit of high end when the box is turned way down. But if you’re in a situation where low volume is the priority, then slightly different tone may be an acceptable trade off.
Haven't tried a JB8 yet but I've put an Alnico 8 in a Suhr Aldrich before which has a similar sound to the JB. I'd say this magnet has a lot of that "bark" sound in the midrange. In this video though I liked the mid presence of both the "5" magnets which no doubt cut through the mix. My experience with A2 is they're usually a bit flubby on the low end which you can't really hear in the riffs played, sounds good strumming though. I'd be interested to hear Alnico IV which are know to have a very flat EQ profile
So if your amp has a master volume is this pointless?
Not necessarily! Some master volumes are very very touchy - this allows you a little more fine tuning so you can dial in the exact volume you want. I’d say it really depends on the amp and if it’s jumpy going from low to high volume.
@@deltarider99 thank you 🙏
Sonic maxmizer is the💣..PLAY ON..🎸🔥😎
Truth
To add another one to muddy the waters some builders make jb clones with a short A5 which supposedly smooths out some of those harsh spikes.
A2 has zero bass?
A4 or A3 bar would have been a bonus...
Did the Alnico 8 clear up the muddy tone of the JB?
I was excited about this pedal and approach, but I noticed on the JHS website that they recommend for this to be the only pedal in the effects loop as it will alter the sound of other pedals in the loop. That’s a shame or at least worth considering if folks do run other pedals like reverbs or delays in the effects loop already
there’s a small impact but it’s not as significant as their documentation makes it out to be.
Thank you for the informative video ! In the end you mentioned that, it could be done with also an EQ pedal if there’s volume knob on it. I have a boss GE7 with the volume knob I believe I can do the same then ? :) thx
Yep! That will work.
Thank you for making this video ! Liking the A2, maybe most particularly
Youve got incredible tone. Thats just the amp?! Wow
Thanks! And yep - that’s just the Archon. I will say that it’s the Archon through a v30 in a closed-back cab, which sounds completely different than just its combo cab, but yeah - she’s a beast. Thanks for watching!!
this is stupid video , I do not know what going on
Question for you (much later, of course): You made about each speaker and about which speaker you liked the most. How did you come to that conclusion? Were you listening to the speaker in the room or did you listen to the mic'ed sound before you came to those conclusions? I ask because I thought the G12h 30 sounded pretty good under the mic when I level-matched things. It's NOT the V30 (which always sounds good) but I thought it did great with the distorted tones (when level-matched against everything else). I'm looking for a complement to my V30s assortment (I have V30s from a late-90s Marshall 4x12 and from a 2001 Mesa 2x12) and I thought the G12h 30 sounded like it would be different but good on it's own. Just curious about your thoughts/methods! Especially with an open-back cab and a different goal in mind (I own/operate/engineer at a recording studio and it sounds like you're trying to have the most fun time you can jamming an amp) the results/impressions can be drastically different. Thanks for any insight you can lend (from a million years ago) and thanks for putting together this video!
Hey there! And thanks for the thoughtful comment! To answer your question - my basis came from a mix of the mic'ed up tones in addition to the feel from playing. It's interesting - I'm still using the M65 in the Archon; not that it sounded the absolute best out of all the speakers, but it had the best feel in the room and it pairs really well with a V30 in a sealed box. However - you brought up the G12H30. After the demo, I decided to throw the G12H30 into another amp I had laying around (Blackstar Artist 15), and the results were fantastic - for that amp, it's probably the best speaker I've tried in it. It didn't quite work "in the room" for the Archon, but it's massive sounding in the Blackstar. Especially with fuzz pedals. And just for kicks, I hooked up the Archon and the Blackstar together, and the results were pretty great - best of all worlds!
@@deltarider99 that's super interesting! I've liked the G12H30 in many of the demos I've heard so it doesn't surprise me that you found a home for it. That phenomenon right there is why I have a few speakers that "don't sound great" living in some "lesser respected" cabs. Sometimes they just do something specific and I know that at some point down the line I'm going to find their perfect home and I'll be happy I didn't chuck 'em in the garbage. Have any guitar playing/gear/writing/recording revelations happened in your world since you made this video? Thanks again for doing these initial tests AND for the reply after all this time!
its still too dark. maybe the antiquity version is the answer
Which is louder and greater output?
Changing magnets not only changes the magnetic field strength but it also can move the resonant peak due to slight inductance changes.
I have a production jb in a USA charvel so cal and an antiquity jb in an old Ibanez. The guitars are identical in construction and features, except for maple board on one and ebony on another, tone pot on the Ibanez, no tone on the Charvel. The antiquity JB wins, hands down. It has a beautiful smoothness in the midrange compared to the stock JB. The awesome crunch and midrange is still there but I don’t hear the honking, nasal quality to the mids. Harmonics are effortless with the antiquity. It just feels perfectly balanced and not as notchy or boxy as the production model. I was considering trying A2 in the stock one, I like A2. I rotate these guitars for gigs and home playing in different tunings, maybe to make them more identical, I’ll go rough cast 5 which the antiquity has. I use 500k pots in both, I tried a 250 in the Charvel but it was dark , boomy and not as open, even without a tone pot on that guitar. In this video, I liked A2 and roughcast 5 best. I liked stock better than 8 or ua5.
The JB in my LTD '87 Eclipse NT was borderline raspy and just needed the cheap factory "green chicklet" tone cap replaced with a Mojotone paper&oil of the same value. I chose the Seymour Duncan TB-14 in my HSS guitar and prefer an Orangedrop capacitor with that combo. Every guitar should have specific components that surpress unwanted frequencies and accentuate the ones you prefer. Why guitars don't have more options for the electronics you can get in each model is beyond me?
UOA5 almost sounds like the mic was not in the same position :/
I was quite surprised too by how the sound shifted with the UOA5. Almost a 'cloudy' sound?
e609 level is lower then other mics, not a fair comparison. But still useful if you adjust volume on the go...
Very cool
I have a TB-4 "J" wound by Maricela Juarez that came stock in my '94 ESP M-ll Deluxe. Best sounding JB I've ever owned. The harmonics just fall out of the guitar.
the jury is out on a8 for me
Mine isn’t working. Do you need to use a speaker cable or can you use a normal instrument cable
Instrument cable for sure. Don't use a speaker cable. Make sure the cable you have coming from your FX loop "send" is plugged into the right side of the cable (the jack nearest to the graphic on the device) and the cable from your FX loop "return" is plugged into the left side. You could also just plug it in front of your amp (guitar -> cable -> JHS -> cable -> amp) to verify that it's functioning properly.
Do not use guitar instrument cables. Use speaker cables like the cables that go between amp and cabinet, straight to straight speaker cable.
No….do NOT do this. This is not an attenuator. It sits in the amp’s effects loop. Therefore, you use instrument cables like you would for any other pedal that would go in an effects loop.
@@deltarider99 according to specs you still use speaker cables, confusing then. I don’t use one anyway, I tried it and didn’t like it.
When you turned the loop on around 7:55 in the video, the SPL didn't really change at all, did it? Am I missing something? Sorry if my question is stupid. I am so new to all this. Will my Marshall be more quiet if I buy this, but it will still sound like it does when cranked? It has 3 12AX7s and 2 EL34s. Can I have other FX pedals in the loop with this? Sorry for my dumb questions.
I have a Marshall Silver Jubilee with an FX Loop. I have a delay, reverb, and EQ pedal that I put in my loop. Where do I put this in the signal chain? Would I put it before the EQ (so, first in the loop), or after the delay (so, last in the loop)? Thanks!
Hey there! I've always kept it at the very end of my loop - that being said, I have not experimented with placement in the chain though. The JHS site mentions something about it altering the "effect" of other pedals in your loop, so I interpret that as saying that placement might actually matter. For me, end of the loop meant it was conveniently placed on top of the amp so I could quickly make volume changes, so that's where it stayed. Thanks for watching!!
Hey, I'd just like to give you some constructive feedback, if I may! You mentioned a few things quite a few times, such as the position of where you put the amp box and stuff like that - you could possibly get your video times lower with the same amount of helpfulness that you provided in this video (which was absolutely AWESOME). You might get more views like that! That being said, this was EXTREMELY thorough and helpful. Thanks so much!!!
Really appreciate the feedback and the nice comments, man!
I got back into magnet swapping after watching your video and I remember how I like all Duncans better with rough cast magnets. Stock modern SD magnets seem to be pretty strong. Alot of low end and kinda harsh highs. Rough casts usually fix that
Does it matter how you orient the unoriented magnet? Seems like there would be four ways to install it. Or does it get "deciphering" as to polarity and put in a certain direction?
I use a 2-channel Peavey Stereo Chorus 400 which only has an insert plug for each channel, OUT PRE/IN POWER AMP. There’s something in the manual about this single plug being a send/return loop with a TRS cable, where the tip is the pre out and the ring being the power amp in. Would you know if and how I can use this with my Peavey? Thanks
I like how you put the polished 5 in again as a reference. It almost sounds like mic placement was off on the UOA5 . Swapped that mag many times, including in a JB and I haven't heard that drastic of a difference. Which one did you end up choosing?
If you think about it you are overdriving your preamp while starving your power section. This may work for a high gain amp that gets its crunch from the pre amp. Kind of a trade off but if it works for you it's good.
I rarely ever play my archon 25 through the 1x12, I either play it through a Mesa Traditional 4x12 or a Mills Acoustics Afterburner 4x12. Sounds absolutely massive through either of those, both v30s. It has that mesa sound so v30s make sense to me. For a lot of stuff, I think it sounds better than my Rev G Dual Rec. Cool video. Soon I’ll be trying it through some 10” speakers
That's awesome! Mine is ok through the combo and a closed-back 1x12, but I've often wondered about running it into a 4x12. Might just have to try it 👍
Ok, call me an idiot, but HOW do I connect this thing if I don't have a pedal board just a guitar going into the amp or what if I don't have an fx loop?
It's a great question! You'd connect it in between your guitar and amp - so you'd have your guitar -> cable -> box -> another cable -> amp. However - without an FX loop, you won't get the desired output volume reduction. In front of an amp, all it will do is lower and raise your preamp gain. A neat trick, but won't do what I showed in the video unfortunately.
Dude ! Seymour Duncan parallel axis on a telecaster 🤘🔥🤘 love that pickup on my Jackson Brandon Ellis 👍 one of the best passive pickups IMO. Gotta pick up this JHS glorified volume pot ! Great video thanks
Total waste of money. Just send an output signal to your fridge and it will come back cooler than a 99 with flake.
Killer tones. I just discovered your channel when I was looking at swapping magnets in my pickups.