How to get a saturated, van halen sounding tone out of a jcm 800 2203?

[Valvelust]

I get it ....but! LOL


I don't think there has been a forum that hasn't had multiple threads on this subject since they were formed.

Before it was in magazines like Guitar Player

 

[Point 2 Point]

I still learn cool stuff from just about all the threads.
Didn’t know there was a Mighty Mite 1300 reissue until this thread.

 

[pittbull]

The Mighty Mite 1300-1400 pickups are being made in the USA Today(Frank Falbo is running that) the vintage Mighty Mite pickups were made in California in the 70s Randy Zagota was the owner back then he hired Seymour Duncan to do the OEM on those pickups back then Edward Van Halen did use/own Mighty Mite pickups there is still today a vintage Mighty mite(cream) 1300 in the shark(destroyer) guitar, when Van Halen did the photo shoot for the Van Halen II album Edward had the bumblebee strat for the photo shoot( you can see it on the Van Halen II album)the pickup in the bumble strat is a clear bobbin Mighty Mite 1300 pickup.

 

[Point 2 Point]

The Mighty Mite 1300-1400 pickups are being made in the USA Today(Frank Falbo is running that) the vintage Mighty Mite pickups were made in California in the 70s Randy Zagota was the owner back then he hired Seymour Duncan to do the OEM on those pickups back then Edward Van Halen did use/own Mighty Mite pickups there is still today a vintage Mighty mite(cream) 1300 in the shark(destroyer) guitar, when Van Halen did the photo shoot for the Van Halen II album Edward had the bumblebee strat for the photo shoot( you can see it on the Van Halen II album)the pickup in the bumble strat is a clear bobbin Mighty Mite 1300 pickup.

Is this most likely a MM 1300?

 

[pittbull]

Could be

 

[Valvelust]

I well remember back in the had to be very early 80's when I was out for the EVH "brown sound".

Eddie had written an article about single coil pick-up hum, his advice was to dip them in paraffin wax, so out came my '73 Strat pups, got a double boiler on the stove to heat me up some wax, and dipped the hell out of them. Damn, it worked!

They are still in that Strat my parents bought me for my 14 birthday in 1973!

 

[Rocktane]

Mighty Mite comparison by Ossie



The second one sounds the best to me.

 

[Point 2 Point]

Mighty Mite comparison by Ossie



The second one sounds the best to me.

I like #3

 

[pittbull]

Ossie Ahsen is a good friend of mine he knows his stuff