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I got this brand new for [*price deleted by Admin] on ebay from shop in LA a couple of months ago. When it arrived I was in the middle of finishing assignments for my masters so I didn't really get any time to play with it. At first I didn't know what to think but it has rapidly become my go-to guitar. I also changed amps recently from an ENGL Thunder 50w combo to a Laney Lionheart 5w combo and the Junior sounds exquisite through the new setup.
I already have a mahogany ASAT Special Deluxe and they really are quite different animals. The P90s have much more of a mid presence than the large MFDs. The Special can get a lot of those Tele tones but the Junior, unsurprisingly, can't.
This is my messy rig: Junior - Polytune (washed out) - Timmy - BAT Pharaoh - Lionheart 5w - CoPilot Polypus - Flashback
Great and unique guitar you have there! I wish I could compare a Jr.II like this to my ASAT Super with its overwound MFD's some day and find out which one is the real Les Paul killer!
GeorgeB wrote:Great and unique guitar you have there! I wish I could compare a Jr.II like this to my ASAT Super with its overwound MFD's some day and find out which one is the real Les Paul killer!
None of the above IMO, at least if you're not talking an LP Jr or Special. The MFDs on a Super, although overwound, still retain a lot of high-end. The Junior II indeed has a lot of growl to it. You'll notice the difference in resonance between an MFD and a pickup like the P-90. I had to rework the tone stack on my amp when switching between them because I mostly play MFDs and hence have dialed down the inherent brightness of these pups. But that caused the Junior II to sound a bit muddled because it doesn't have as much highs in its sonic spectrum.
Having said all of that, dialing down the tone control on a Super itself give you some delicious 'mother' tones!
