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The mahogany and maple-capped body lent a
thick and warm character—strong and barky
in the mids, but not muddy. The Manson
JPJ’s neck-through design—which tends to
increase sustain, intonation, and note resolution—and Badass II bridge also seemed to
improve sustain and conspired with the other
construction elements to create a basically
hefty tone that cuts through the mix while
maintaining plenty of low end.
Playing around with the Manson JPJ’s
EMG pickups put several variations on this
basic tone palette at my disposal. Soloing the
back pickup while adding bass and rolling
off treble resulted in a nice variation on the
modern, back-pickup J-Bass sound, and high-
lighting the front pickup with various levels of
treble and bass produced an active sound with
scooped mids. Even turning up the treble for a
woody, “stringy” sound, gave me plenty of low
end to work with. Throwing subtlety to the
wind, I dimed the treble and bass and kept
the pickup selector right in the middle, which
gave me a warm, tight rock tone with strong
mids and focus. Turning the tone controls
down can deliver a thick, dub-ready sound—a
