Yeah, we bought all that stuff after we got married 20 yrs. ago. Some of it's in our 3-season deck, other pcs. are in the basement. I think maybe some people here think it's our main furniture 'cause I'm always taking pics from the deck and my music room.
OK, OK, I GET THAT THE COUCH IS FUGLY! IT'S 20 YEARS OLD. IT'S NOT OUR MAIN FURNITURE. Sheesh! Oh - and all future pics are now going to be taken in front of it, so THERE.
How about a quick reminder of what all the switches do? I know this has been explained before (alt freak was explaining it once a few years ago), but I forget.
Vin, did the guitar come with the couch?........................................Just kidding Vin! Nice J Master!
Ok, so basically it goes like this: There are two sets of controls: 1) the white switch control set which acts like a typical Gibson-style pickup selector switch, and 2) a second set of dials consisting of volume and tone controls. You switch between the two control sets via the 2-way black switch adjacent to the 19th fret. When you activate the dial control set, it switches to a sound similar to using only the neck pickup, but it's a bit deeper sounding. It's slightly different than using just the neck pickup in the Gibson-style control set, apparently due to some added circuitry (could just be a cap for all I know). It's definitely a more "Jazz" type of tone. As I understand it, the purpose was to allow Jazz players to use mainly the dial control set for clean Jazz tones with dedicated volume & tone controls, and then be able to switch over to the Gibson-style controls for your choice of a predetermined lead tone, also with its own dedicated volume & tone controls. I think the idea was to allow Jazz players the ability to control everything right from the guitar. For a "Jazz" guitar, I'm a little baffled by the whammy bar, as that isn't typically a Jazz guitar feature. Seems like it should have been called the "Surfmaster", but it realy suits pretty much any stle. I don't know if the Jazzmaster was designed to facilitate Surf, or if it was responsible for creating Surf, but it's definitely Jazzy and it's definitely Surfy. But plugging into a Marshall and ripping on the bridge pickup sounds like a humbucker guitar, but with more noise. It sounds great into a moderate-gain amp, though a little noisier than my Strat and Tele. Hopefully all of this made sense. Here's a YouTube demo showing how versatile these guitars are:
