Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Silly_Willy on October 28, 2008, 04:50:14 AM
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Hello, I would like some help on deciding which pickups to put in my Jackson KE2 Kelly. It is an alder body, maple neck guitar. I run it through a Randall RH100 half stack. It will be used to play classic thrash metal. In the bridge (rythym) I would like to achieve a Dimebag/James Hetfield scooped mids tone. Very important that it is highly articulate as a lot of very fast riffing will be played. It needs to be able to do pinch harmonics very easily In the neck (lead) I would like to get a Marty Friedman-esque boosted mids JB sound. It will need to be able to do a lot of staccoto runs really well and a bit of a more fluid lagato type thing also. Pinch harmonics should come fairly easily but will not be as important as in the bridge.
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cold sweat set + mid booster
seriously
the cold sweat sounds very Panteresque and the mid booster before the amp (like Darrell used) helps A LOT to thicken up the guitar (a lot more than an overdrive pedal)
but... I'm not sure...you're using solid state and alder
I had a jackson kelly and a dime 333 in alder with lawrence pup and a mxr dime distortion
it's a very dry combination
I'd probably go alnico
maybe a nailbomb or holy diver and a nice booster, like the mxr wylde overdrive (very underrated)
that would sound more like Megadeth
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I would say miracle man bridge and Cold Sweat neck
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I think the miracle man might add too much treble attack to alder
no mahogany to smooth things a bit and fill up the midrange
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Painkiller would work, too.