EMG pickup question

[Executioner213]

Do any of you know if I can use the original barrel jack on my Ibanez JS100 as a direct replacement jack for a newly bought 81/85 set, granted I swap the pre-soldered wires and the battery clip onto it from the new jack? The jack that came with the set is basically a TRS type of jack, I'm assuming...two clicks for the 1/4inch plug to be all the way in... while the barrel jack seems to have something similar to this by sight, though it is all the way in with 1 click.

Sorry, I don't have photos for an example.
*please say yes! please say yes!*:zombie:

 

[kev]

I would have thought a jack was a jack, but wait for the emg wizards

 

[Noumenon]

I didn't have to change the jack on my rg7620. but i think you need a jack that has a mechanic switch in it.

 

[006]

You need to use the one that comes with the pickups. Unless you are extremely lazy and/or don't have the money to have it done by a shop, it's really just better to use the EMG one.

~006

 

[nwright]

I dropped a set of EMG's in an Ibanez for a dude once and his axe had the barrel style jack in it. Fortunately, it had all 3 tips or whatever you call it to hook up the EMG's properly. Perhaps yours does as well?

 

[xmarcelx]

you just need a stereo jack! This switches the power of if it's unplugged!

 

[LSD-Studio]

that "built-into-the-side-tube-like-jacks" are stereo, you can use them without any problems

 

[JBroll]

If your jack is stereo, yes. If not, unless you want to rewire the fuck out of the guitar and spend more money on a switch than you would on a jack, the answer is no. If you have a mono jack and you do want to rewire the fuck out of the guitar and spend more money on a switch than you would on a jack, you'll need to identify the wire going from plug to battery, rewire it so that it's always connected, and put in a SPST switch somewhere in that wire so that you can switch the power off when you're not using it.

A good jack can be found online for about $1.25, try Mouser Electronics if you don't have any electronics shops in town. Oh, and avoid Radio Shack plugs like the bubonic plague.

Jeff

 

[JeffTD]

You need to use the one that comes with the pickups. Unless you are extremely lazy and/or don't have the money to have it done by a shop, it's really just better to use the EMG one.

~006

Nah, any stereo TRS Jack will work .

 

[Kenneth R.]

you just need a stereo jack! This switches the power of if it's unplugged!

indeed. if you use just the 'one click' jack, you'll be spending a fortune on batteries since even when you unplug it, it won't be "off"

 

[Executioner213]

Thanks for the feedback given thus far.

Lets remember that my guitar has a barrel jack for a *reason*....it's routed with the angled deep mount as all other Joe Satriani guitars have. Without chopping chunks out of the body of my guitar and bolting a plate to the body of the guitar for the 'jack that came with it' to mount to. I've seen plenty of Ibanez S series guitars with EMG's (James Murphy has one on the cover of his "Convergence" disc, for example) and those all have barrel jacks...so I know it can be done one way or another, but I'm not finding anything different in catalogs or online.

I guess I could re-word my overall question: Are all barrel jacks stereo? If not, how can you tell the difference?

 

[Executioner213]

...and also, I can't just go to a shop where I live....I'm the one that fixes all the guitars in the city I live. I bought the pickups in Spokane at Guitar Center while I was over there to see Slayer/Lamb Of God/Mastodon/Children Of Bodom. Nobody around here has EMG's, unless thier guitar came with them installed already. All I can get my hands on around here are DiMarzio's or Duncans.

 

[Razorjack]

There will be three solder points on the jack, from what I've seen Ibanez use stereo jacks in all there most recent guitars (even my RG7321 has a stereo jack and it's a low end guitar).

 

[Executioner213]

Does 3 points = stereo?

 

[Tym_ex]

Yes

 

[Executioner213]

fucking A! I might be in luck then...I guess I'll let you all know, for what it's worth...

 

[Executioner213]

it worked...yay

 

[nwright]

lol, I think I stated this very thing (that Ibanez's come with a stereo jack) like 3 posts into the thread...Good to hear you got it working.

 

[dreamofasound]

It's an old thread but would you mind telling how the js100 sound with emgs in it?
I got a couple guitar that I wanna upgrade but I'm not sure what to do.
I got an esp f-50 (cheap guitar), an ibanez js100 and a strat copy which I like quite a bit for cleans and rock.
I'm hesitating in putin emgs in the esp or in the ibanez beacause the ibanez plays a lot better but the esp it easier to tune and it doesn't have as much body resonance which is IMO good for heavy stuff.
Any suggestions?

 

[Executioner213]

My JS100 is my main guitar, but it's also over 10 years old and I've done quite a bit of modding to it. The only thing original on it is the body and the neck. Original Floyd replaced the Lo-TRS trem long ago. It sounds pretty damn good and I'm glad I put the pups in it.