Lighten up a dark horse?

[punkin]

I've got an EB MM JPM...it's got a lot of mid scoup and a pretty dark sounding guitar. I really have to EQ the dickens out of the guitar to get the sound I'm after.

Hang on...a detour... recently I tried a set of Elixer Nanowebs on my acoustic and I tell ya, it was like night an day...these are some very very bright strings. I was absolutely floored at the difference in sound. I mean it made my Martin sound jangly like a 12 stringer! I'm getting to like it actually.

OK...going back to the "E" guitar...So, I've been playing Super Slinkies since forever. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if there are similar "shockingly" bright electric guitar strings to bring a bit of brightness to my EB MM JPM?

 

[Anfontan]

I've got an EB MM JPM...it's got a lot of mid scoup and a pretty dark sounding guitar. I really have to EQ the dickens out of the guitar to get the sound I'm after.

Hang on...a detour... recently I tried a set of Elixer Nanowebs on my acoustic and I tell ya, it was like night an day...these are some very very bright strings. I was absolutely floored at the difference in sound. I mean it made my Martin sound jangly like a 12 stringer! I'm getting to like it actually.

OK...going back to the "E" guitar...So, I've been playing Super Slinkies since forever. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if there are similar "shockingly" bright electric guitar strings to bring a bit of brightness to my EB MM JPM?

Punkin, a simple capacitor change in your tone circuit might be an easy & quick remedy to brightening up your tone. Its usually in place between the output on the volume pot to the input on your tone control. I used a 104 pF cap on one of mine and it brightened it up a lot.
Also, I have added a 470pF cap and a 330K resistor in parallel with the 1st & 2nd pins on the volume pot and as I turn the volume down I don't lose the crisp bright sound of having the volume pot maxed.
Tony

 

[punkin]

Great suggestions, thanks! I take it you've done this on the JP guitar? I haven't looked inside the volume and tone knob compartment yet but I was of the understanding that the big scoup these guitars give up is due to the way the pups are wound.

 

[Anfontan]

Great suggestions, thanks! I take it you've done this on the JP guitar? I haven't looked inside the volume and tone knob compartment yet but I was of the understanding that the big scoup these guitars give up is due to the way the pups are wound.

No I haven't tried it in the Ernie ball petrucci itself, but it is a mod that should work on most guitars modeled after a Fender Strat style. I looked it up and the standard tone cap is a .022 micro Farad in your guitar, so changing it should brighten it up.
The other mod is also a standard mod to brighten up most guitars, I did it on my Les Paul as well as my Fenders styles and it doesn't muddy up at all as volume is turned down !

Heres a forum about ernie ball guitars-might help
http://www.ernieball.com/forums/archive/index.php/f-10.html