Here are our essential tips for squeezing every last drop of performance out of your jazzmaster jaguar or other offset guitar covering everything from new bridges and pickups to vibrato fixes and supercharged electronics. The two inside wheels on the upper pickguard next to the slide switch are the circuits volume and passive tone controls.
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Jazzmaster rhythm circuit wiring. By the way heres the wiring if you simply want both pickups and the selector active on the rhythm circuit. I notice the standard tone pot value lead circuit is a linear pot. To activate the jazzmasters rhythm circuitwhich is fully separate from the leadsimply move the upper slide switch to the up position away from the neck. One mod reconfigures the lead circuit to make the guitar more like a les paul by employing two independent volume. Diving into the complex world of traditional jazzmaster controls and the new setup on the american professional series. The jazzmaster rythym circuit what does it do.
This is the mod we demonstrated in the reverb tank article titled jazzmaster wiring mods. The jazzmasters rhythm circuit has been maligned and misunderstood over the years theyre far more than just mud switches if you know how to use them. On a standard jazzmaster the bridge pickup is not wired to the rhythm circuit only the neck pickup is. Above we discussed ways to upgrade a stock squier vintage modified jazzmaster. I could simply just reverse the wires with the neck and bridge pickup but that would only give me the bridge pickup in rc with no other pickups. Vintage vs modern telecaster wiring demo duration.
Should you take it out. No series just bridge parallel and neck. Here well lay out some wiring mods that can give your offset more versatility and put the rhythm circuit to good use. Jazzmaster with dual volumes. Stb super mod this mod features dual volume controls in the lead circuit a ptb tone stack in the rhythm circuit and seriesparallel switching via the slide switch. Like with his jm 90 this will fit in a standard jazzmaster pickup route.