Luxe repro bumblebees vs. RS Jensens

[Kickstand]

Has anyone done any direct comparison between these two caps? What differences did you find tonally? Thanks.

[neils]

I did. Look in the Historics and Reissue area of MLP. Find a thread on page 2 called "My new R4"

Go to maybe page 4 or 5 of the thread, not sure, and you'll find my post about comparing RS Jensens and RS/'Luxx Grey Tigers. The Bees and Tigers are the same inside and so sound the same.

In a nutshell the Tigers/Bees have more edge or cut/bite than the Jensens IMO.

The Jensens are rounder or smoother. This is with P90's.

I prefer the Grey Tigers.

Neil

[5F6-A]

Jensens are more efficient and smoother as stated before. I like old bees, VQs or Russian PIOS more too.

[MrRhoads]

I´ve recently installed Luxe Grey Tigers .02 on both neck and bridge comming from Jensen .022 bridge and .015 neck.
I´ve got Gibson Burstbucker Pro´s in the Les Paul to.
Like Neils said "In a nutshell the Tigers/Bees have more edge or cut/bite than the Jensens IMO"
I find that i lost a little bass from the guitar but not so much that i think of it as a bad thing.
The first impression was that i could roll off the tone knobs down to 8 and then turning up to 10 would be like a small boost in the treble
Like 5F6-A sais the Jensens are smoother.
I play more Hard Rock stuff so i like the Luxe Grey Tigers better since they give a little more edge, think of them as Tigers with a "Grrr" to it ha ha ha