Has anyone had any experience with JJB Pickups?

[Jinder]

Hi all,

I've been doing some pickup research prior to deciding on how to amplify my AJ, and I keep seeing enthusiastic reports online about JJB Pickups. Has anyone had any experience with these?

 

I'm led to believe they're an alternative to the K&K SBTs, but significantly cheaper and with slightly better volume-before-feedback performance.

 

I've pondered a soundhole pickup (the Rare Earth Blend sounds great, but is extremely expensive) but I don't really like the look of them, and haven't cared much for any I've owned in the past.

 

K&Ks have been highly recommended to me, but I often play at high volume on small stages, and feedback issues are a big concern of mine.

 

The JJBs are purported to perform as well as the K&Ks, and are less feedback-prone by most accounts. Does anyone have any hands-on experience with them?

 

Also, feel free to suggest anything else I should be auditioning...

[EuroAussie]

Havent had experience with the pickup you mentioned but I do use the Fishaman blend on my 69' CW. Very happy with tone, warm and natural and love the blending capability. More mike for fingerstyle, more humbucker for riffing and so on.

 

Come on and off very easily, highly recommend it.

 

Had an M1a first and hated the phasey unnatural tone it delivered, despite singificant tweaking.

[onewilyfool]

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[junglejem]

Why not get a hand-made internal audiophile-grade Trance Audio Amulet Pickup System of an entirely innovative and original design, which enables it to take all of its acoustic splendor flawlessly to the biggest stages in the world?????

 

Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm on my second Trance Audio Amulet, and will never look back. I believe it to be the epitome of acoustic amplification. Expensive, but not really when you consider it comes with an audiophile preamp/D.I.