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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: dd6094 on December 30, 2009, 06:07:58 PM

Title: Bark at the moon
Post by: dd6094 on December 30, 2009, 06:07:58 PM

Hi, just received a Charvel So-cal and I'm looking for a pair of humbuckers for it.
Have my custom shop strat with a Crawler and 2x mothers milk for my main live duties but I'm looking for the charvel to serve up a healthy dose of Jake E Lee's Bark at the moon tone........what would you recommend?
I'm not a big Jake fan or Ozzy fan for that matter, just love the full, middy, defined sound on that track.
Cheers
Jim

Title: Re: Bark at the moon
Post by: gwEm on December 30, 2009, 07:16:02 PM

holy diver :)

Title: Re: Bark at the moon
Post by: Denim n Leather on December 30, 2009, 07:16:21 PM

Nailbomb or Cold Sweat

Title: Re: Bark at the moon
Post by: HTH AMPS on December 30, 2009, 07:25:02 PM

I'd probably go with a Cold Sweat for that tone in that guitar.

Title: Re: Bark at the moon
Post by: gwEm on December 30, 2009, 07:30:17 PM

based on my recent experience with an OD-1 pedal, I'd say this was the biggest ingredient in his tone

Title: Re: Bark at the moon
Post by: Philly Q on December 30, 2009, 08:08:23 PM

I'm not sure I believe in the idea of reproducing a certain tone just by getting the "right" pickups, there are too many other factors involved - not least the player!  

However, there's a guy on the forum called Woogie who has a couple of guitars which are basically copies of Jake's Strats.  I think one has a custom pickup and the other has a Holydiver and Slowhands.

Title: Re: Bark at the moon
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on December 30, 2009, 10:06:29 PM

Jake used a Duncan Holdsworth pickup and later used a JB

A HolyDiver would work well as would a Cold Sweat in my opinion

However a Rebel Yell or Crawler would work nicely too

I once had Tim make me a 16K double screw coil  Alnico5 special once to be like the Holdsworth and it was pretty nice - the double screw coil added more bottom end "oomph"