Garth wrote: Wed Dec 03, 2025 11:18 am Im adding some functionality to our matrix processor at work to make it easier for event staff to facilitate things like a corporate speaker with a wireless mic or DJ night. Anyway im adding an additional 2u panel with 16 d-panel ins/outs and wondering if there is a way to label it in a relatively easy way that makes it look more professional (vs silver sharpie or label maker) since its going to be installed and visible on stage. I have seen a lot of the builds you guys have done that look super professional and clean.

Something like this:

https://www.redco.com/Redco-DP-Labels.html

or a service like Trace Audios printed patchbay label things. I have them. they are a little hard to read.

andyman wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:26 am What kind of pickups do folks prefer in their aluminium instruments (particularly baritone)?
I thought everyone went hard in on the JM500s but I'm realising a lot of EGCs actually come with humbuckers. How aggressive are the JM500s vs say a P90?

If you want a wall of sound, go with humbuckers.

If you want to hit a power chord and still leave space for the drums, go with single coils. This is the most outwardly aggressive, but don’t forget Keith Levene and Dennison played humbucker guitars - sometimes its nice to round things off a bit.

Obviously there are overlaps there - it almost seems like the single coil treble on an aluminum guitar goes up an octave (they don’t), but I think the midrange is really what sets them apart, especially since they are reproducing a guitar with a more wide bandwidth sound.

Its harder to get single coil tones out of a humbucker than it is to get humbucker tones out of a single coil, but all that depends on your amp and effects setup. And let’s not forget that the hum canceling properties really are useful.

Caveat: Never played JM500s, but I have an EGC standard w/ humbuckers, a tyranny with single coils, and used to own a egc aluminum jm with single coils… I kind of hated that guitar but miss certain things about it. Thinking about it reminds me that specifications on paper doesn’t necessarily add up to a guitar that will work for you.

andyman wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:21 pm

Caveat: Never played JM500s, but I have an EGC standard w/ humbuckers, a tyranny with single coils, and used to own a egc aluminum jm with single coils…

Wait, the JM500s EGC sell in the reverb store aren't the same single coils that go out in their guitars?

I was under the impression that the JM500s were the same build as the C500 and other P90-shaped (but not a P90) used in EGC guitars.

Ben would know, but I haven’t really looked into them, so just wanted to make that clear in my post. All mine were regular EGC pickups in the P90 shell, but since the guitars were so vastly different, mostly because of the trem vs hardware, it was like comparing a Tele to a Jazzmaster if you raised them on a diet of carbon steel bolts.

benadrian wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:52 pm

andyman wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:21 pm

Caveat: Never played JM500s, but I have an EGC standard w/ humbuckers, a tyranny with single coils, and used to own a egc aluminum jm with single coils…

Wait, the JM500s EGC sell in the reverb store aren't the same single coils that go out in their guitars?

I was under the impression that the JM500s were the same build as the C500 and other P90-shaped (but not a P90) used in EGC guitars.

Yeah I’m pretty sure they’re the same just in JM form since so many folks were/are putting those bolt on necks on Jazzmaster bodies.

Hey, I'm just reporting what I hear. You should know better than to listen to me <3

The ones in my Jazzmaster still kinda sound like a Jazzmaster.

The ones in my EGC sound more like a P90.

Probably got more to do with how Jazzmaster hardware and wiring inform the tone.

If I wired the Jazzmaster up Les Paul style (2 vol, 2 tone, three way) it would probably get closer to the EGC. Maybe?

For the record, while the single coils in most EGC guitars are in P90 covers, they aren't actually P90s. Kevin has said they're basically hot Tele bridge pickups like the TB500 single coils (also not P90s!).

My EGC single coils are OG and the instrument was made a long time ago - the original owner actually found me on reddit!

My pickups are very bright and very hot. To the point that I've tried several remedies to allow me to use the same rig with both the EGC and wood guitars because the tonal difference is so much. Eq pedals, rolling off the bridge tone knob, etc.

The EGC SC's don't sound P90 like to me at all. As others have said, hot hot tele is closer.

FWIW, madlove in Australia also offers a bunch of TB-style pickups.

andyman wrote: Mon Dec 08, 2025 6:08 pm Turns out GuyLaCroix was quoting the gospel truth:

We do make a 90 style single-coil, but we don't sell in separately, just as part of full builds or refurbishes. Sorry.

Looks like they're not selling their secret sauce. Dicks.

(also they just lost themselves $300 in business from me)

A lesser man would invite you to suck their dick off their torso.

I'll settle for being above reproach for once in my life.