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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Madsakre on March 27, 2010, 05:08:59 PM

Title: Pickus for a 80's mockingbird
Post by: Madsakre on March 27, 2010, 05:08:59 PM

I just bought this AWESOME guitar the other day. It's with a wrecked floyd, but keeps the tuning amazingly good taken in mind that half of the blocks are missing. I dont know which pickups which are in it, but they ROCK!
Anyway my plan is to make it a UNIBIRD(black guitar, green hardware.)

Im gonna order some green dimarzio knobs, A new trem, AND GREEN BKP pubs.

I tune the guitar to D. And i use it in our band for old death covers(ZOMBIE RITUAL!).
Chuck used X2N's. But i do not have his hands. My picking attack is significantly different.
Most of my gear is different too. Chuck used a randall combo and trace elliot combos then(the marshalls were just for show)

I use a Line 6 spider valve tuned with 5881 tubes and 12ax7 tubes. A mesa rectifier cab and a engl standard top cab.

I think that the guitar body is basswood. Or maybe even some eastern mahogany. It dosent matter, theres a lot of wood and the guitar is even loud unplugged.

I was thinking about a cold sweat in the bridge. But i dont know the pickup.
This is the sound im kinda after- this style :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBfiN849Utc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBfiN849Utc)


-Mads

Title: Re: Pickus for a 80's mockingbird
Post by: dheim on March 27, 2010, 07:28:50 PM

a cold sweat can easily achieve schuldiner's tone... you'll need a lot of clarity to properly downtune a basswood guitar... my warpigs equipped RG is a bit too boomy in B!

Title: Re: Pickus for a 80's mockingbird
Post by: Madsakre on March 27, 2010, 07:35:44 PM

Well dude im also the proud owner of 2 basswood guitars with warpigs in it. One with A-5 and the other a ceramic covered :D
I tune the a-5 in Bb(7 string) and the baritone in B with the c. All i can say is to back off the bass and gain :)

But i want to try something new with this one. And i heard some very promising clips with the cold sweat.

Title: Re: Pickus for a 80's mockingbird
Post by: dheim on March 27, 2010, 07:44:34 PM

Quote from: Madsakre on March 27, 2010, 07:35:44 PM

Well dude im also the proud owner of 2 basswood guitars with warpigs in it. One with A-5 and the other a ceramic covered :D
I tune the a-5 in Bb(7 string) and the baritone in B with the c. All i can say is to back off the bass and gain :)

But i want to try something new with this one. And i heard some very promising clips with the cold sweat.

uhuh, Bb is LOW, man! :)
anyway i love my cold sweats - i've got them in a Gibson SG, so something completely different... even if they're not the hottest pickups on earth they sound massive!

Title: Re: Pickus for a 80's mockingbird
Post by: Madsakre on March 27, 2010, 07:52:10 PM

Haha :D I used to tune in G# :D
This is quite old. But its the A-5 pickup on overtime work :D
http://www.myspace.com/Amantiavirosa (http://www.myspace.com/Amantiavirosa)

Title: Re: Pickus for a 80's mockingbird
Post by: Madsakre on March 31, 2010, 11:11:57 AM

I started to wonder which pickup it should be again :S
Miracle man or Cold sweat?

Title: Re: Pickus for a 80's mockingbird
Post by: Crazy_Joe on March 31, 2010, 11:48:28 PM

Miracle Man would be my choice but Cold Sweat would do the job too.