90s Jackson experts please help

M

Meanjoegreene

Well-known member
Just scored a Japanese Fusion HSS. Seems like a cool guitar so far. What mods or setup tips do y’all recommend?

Looks like both pots are 250k.

Gonna give it a while then take it in for a proper setup. Thought about upgrading pickups but the 250k thing kinda throws me off…never tried those combo 250/500 pots but will be looking into them later
 
I rocked a fusion for a long time. If the electronics are stock (as in, with the preamp boost), I would leave them be, and if they have been messed with at all, I would gut them all out and start from scratch.

It's honestly just too much of a headache trying to fix other people's "ideas", and especially with these, the best sounds I ever got were after replacing everything with EMGs
 
How could I tell if it had the preamp boost ? I checked and it looked like 2 pots and the 5 way. Mines the Japanese version.

I had heard about the boost and kinda looked but wasn’t sure.
 
Not all the Jackson Fusions had the active boost, I think those have three knobs. It should be fairly plain to spot one both by looking at the electronics (should be a battery and a small circuit board in there) and from the function of the knobs, the boost in the Fusions were a sort of cocked-wah mid sweep.
 
Mine doesn’t have it which is fine with me

This is my first guitar with a floating Floyd. I’m looking at the Lawrence Wilde pickups for possible upgrades. Looks like one of the HBs is made to run off a 250 pot. So I could use that and 2 of their singles and still keep the blade look.

Cool guitar…my first true shredder, ha ha
 
I personally wouldn´t choose pickups depending on which pots were in there to begin with, just as easy to swap those out at the same time and basically without extra cost.
 
Oh yeah

But that also might be better to balance the singles and HBs. Big drop in volume switching from the neck to the HB even though the singles are supposed to be basically HBs too

Honestly some volume isn’t an issue…just more extreme in this case than I expected
 
tenor.gif
 
Meanjoegreene said:
Oh yeah

But that also might be better to balance the singles and HBs. Big drop in volume switching from the neck to the HB even though the singles are supposed to be basically HBs too

Honestly some volume isn’t an issue…just more extreme in this case than I expected
Click to expand...

If you're going to do anything in there, i would just rip everything out and start from scratch

You can lower the output of the hb to try and get it a bit more balanced but it's always going to be an issue

If you're going to mess with it, take it all out and start over with 250/500 pots and do it right
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top