Members flake Posted March 30, 2006 Members Share Posted March 30, 2006 Hi I'm currently using a jekyll & hyde as my main overdrive/distortion tones... I play this through a 57' Jap strat, alder body with maple neck and fender vintage noiseless pickups. They sound pretty cool clean, nice and sweet - though i have to tweak with the amp and tone control at times... but when i step on the hyde option it tends to fart out or fuzz out.. or just insert any adjective for sounding pretty shrilly, like an overbright guitar... the ts808 option works fine for me, nice fat tones i can get... but the hyde simply baffles me. Anyone familiar with the J&H to recommend some settings? Or should i get another pedal...? any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vigor&kandor Posted March 30, 2006 Members Share Posted March 30, 2006 try the eq knob all the way counter clock wise, tone from 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock,gain from noon to 3 o'clock, tone from 9 o'clock to 2 o'clock. mess with the blunt/sharp switch. strat switch on bridge/middle setting hope this helps the eq knob scoops the mids the more it is turned up. the more you scoop the shriller the sound. the blunt switch compress's the sound and rolls off some of the highs. if it keeps farting and fuzzing turn down the gain, and the tone some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CurtisM Posted March 30, 2006 Members Share Posted March 30, 2006 Im sure youve already tried tweaking the tone knob on the pedal. You could rewire your guitar to give you a tone control on the bridge to take the shrillness off of it when using high gain...I almost always roll the tone back a bit on my tele for rock tones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jaymeister Posted March 30, 2006 Members Share Posted March 30, 2006 I think it is the bridge pickup. I installed a set of those in a guitar I had 7 or 8 years ago and all I could remember was my ears bled on the bridge pickup...so I never used it. But rewiing it so the tone pot worked might be a solution. If not, I'd look into installing something else in there if you use it with high gain tones alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vigor&kandor Posted March 30, 2006 Members Share Posted March 30, 2006 i have some vintage noiseless hots in my strat, and yeah the bridge pickup can be super shrill. i use to not be able to use it byt itself at all. thats what i use the middle/bridge position. it thickens the sound alittle, and gets rid of some of the highs. the tone knob mod works too. my noiseless pickups are in an MIA so the bridge is wired to the bottom tone control. i rewired my guitar so i can have a neck/bridge setting and i and really digging tat right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members usa83strat Posted March 30, 2006 Members Share Posted March 30, 2006 if you need a birdge pup i got a SD lil 59 for bridge laying around my house, i was plannig on saving it for when i get a project strat, but if you want it i can sell it for $50 shipped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flake Posted March 30, 2006 Author Members Share Posted March 30, 2006 Thanks for the help guys... I don't think i'd want to change out the pups though. I'm sorta after John Frusciante's of RHCP tone so i think single coils should be fine. i can get close to billie joe's (green day) - when he uses his p90 guitars... but i guess i'm expecting too much out of single coils - been used to the bridge breed of my other guitar... is a compressor a good idea for this guitar? i'm running it this way: guitar > J&H > De-7 > Ce-2 > Phase 90 > amp (i practice with a microcube at home.. usually with my band using a Peavey JSX) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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