00:23Piano music
00:50Hey, this is Daryl at Chicago Music Exchange, and today I'm going to be giving a detailed
00:54review of my new favorite guitar here at Chicago Music Exchange, the Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar.
01:00First off, you're not going to find Fender pickups in this guitar. What you're going to find are pickups
01:04wound by a company called Bare Knuckle. They're a high-end boutique pickup company who have wound
01:09these to Johnny Marr's specs based off one of his favorite Fender Jaguars. Now, these pickups in
01:14comparison to standard Jaguar pickups are going to be throatier, louder, and have a lot more top-end
01:20bite to them. The Johnny Marr Jaguar is not your typical Jaguar. It's got some modifications that
01:28make it much more usable in different situations. The pickups, for instance, we've done away with the
01:38traditional Jaguar setup. I'm going to go through some of the pickup selections right now. All right,
01:44in the first position, it's both pickups in parallel. In the second position is the neck pickup. The
01:52third position is both pickups in series, which is more of a traditional Jaguar sound. And then the
02:00fourth position is just the bridge pickup. So the sound of both pickups in parallel is like this.
02:15Now, this is the neck pickup. This is both pickups in series.
02:36And finally, this is the bridge pickup.
02:49Now, on top of the modified wiring situation, we've also got a totally different control system
02:57on the upper horn. What is usually here on your standard Jaguar is the jazz position, which is much
03:05darker. This is the opposite situation. This is a switch that engages the low-pass filter, which
03:11is usually right here. This is much better to have right here than the jazz position,
03:17because players would typically hit the switch while playing, as everyone knows, and it would
03:23totally muffle the guitar. It's not something you want to happen. A lot of times, players would duct
03:28tape this position up. Here, we don't have to worry about it, because this is a lower profile switch.
03:33It's harder to accidentally hit. And if you do hit it, you don't really notice any top end gone. You
03:40just
03:40end up cutting out the low end. So this is a universal high-pass filter, and it's applied to all
03:47positions. So this is what it sounds like, to give you a reference, this is what it sounds like without
03:51the filter. And this is what it sounds like with the filter.
04:11In addition to the universal high-pass filter, there's a second switch that's only engaged when
04:15you're in the parallel position. Now, with both pickups in parallel, you're going to get a louder,
04:20darker, more brutal sound. With the switch engaged, it will scoop some lows and mids and give you a
04:26brighter, janglier tone. Another thing that sets this Jaguar apart is the tremolo system.
04:33The arm insert has a bushing installed, which basically keeps the arm from wobbling back and forth.
04:39Also, it keeps the arm in position. So if you want to set the arm over the controls,
04:45over the pickup, or even over the bridge, it will stay exactly where you put it.
04:50Okay, so we're down here at the repair shop at Chicago Music Exchange, and I've got both a stock
04:54Fender Mustang bridge and the Johnny Marr Jaguar Mustang bridge. One of the age-old modifications for a
05:00Jag or a Jazzmaster was to put a Mustang bridge on because the saddles were riveted, and if you played
05:05too hard, you'd knock the string out. Another problem, though, with a Mustang bridge, even,
05:10is there's a lot of play in the height adjustment screw. So if you played the guitar too hard or
05:15if
05:16you played it often, you found that your bridge would sink as you were playing and you'd have to
05:20raise it. Well, the Johnny Marr bridge has a couple of modifications, the first of which being nylon
05:25bushings on the end of the posts. What these bushings do is they lock the height adjustment screw.
05:30So no matter how hard you play or how often you play, the bridge will stay exactly where you want
05:35it. Another thing that these bushings do is they keep the bridge from leaning forward or backwards
05:42after you've used the tremolo, leaving it tuned the same way it was before you used the tremolo.
05:47Now the saddle pieces too are a higher grade metal. A Fender stock bridge for a Mustang has a zinc
05:55alloy
05:55saddle. The Johnny Marr Jaguar bridge has steel saddles, which are much better for sustain and give you a
06:02much clearer tone. And today we're going to be using the Deluxe Memory Man 550T. It's a great all analog
06:08delay pedal with tap tempo, an expression pedal out, a send and a return, and we're going to be playing
06:14through the Tone King Imperial. So let's hear another song with the Johnny Marr Jaguar.
06:18Tone King Imperial.
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