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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Teqnick on August 06, 2010, 03:44:41 PM

Title: Different tones, also custom neck pickup?
Post by: Teqnick on August 06, 2010, 03:44:41 PM

I have a Caparison Horus HGS with a painkiller in the bridge right now. I really like it, but it's lacking that lower mid growl that I desire. I feel like a ceramic warpig would fill that void. I'm basically trying to achieve the tonal characteristics that are displayed on Soilwork's new album.

As far as the neck pickup goes, I have a dimarzio tone zone S in the neck of the horus right now, but i'm just not feeling it. Does anyone have speculation whether or not Tim can make a single coil version of any of the pickups? I'm not 100% sure of what i'd need in the neck, but I was thinking a VHII thus far. The solo tone Peter Wichers has on Natural Born Chaos is more or less along the lines of what i'm looking for.

 Thanks!

Title: Re: Different tones, also custom neck pickup?
Post by: HTH AMPS on August 06, 2010, 06:08:20 PM

if you like the painkiller, but its only a little bit off in the low mids, just get an EQ pedal - that'll sort you out. 

Title: Re: Different tones, also custom neck pickup?
Post by: Philly Q on August 06, 2010, 06:23:23 PM

For the neck pickup, BKP don't make single-coil-sized humbuckers, be they stacks or rail types like your DiMarzio, so you can't get a "single coil version", as such, of a BKP humbucker. 

You'd have to go with a regular single-coil, but maybe one of the existing range would suit you.  I've never tried them, but Trilogy Suite seems to be a popular choice with metal players using HSS or HS guitars.

Title: Re: Different tones, also custom neck pickup?
Post by: ratspeak on August 07, 2010, 07:18:50 AM

There's a guy on youtube, LiamENGL, that uses the C-Pig for Soilwork stuff as well as Scar Symmetry and other stuff, and I'm on the honeymoon period with mine so I'll be quick to recommend.  :good:

I'm not a single-coil guy, but I have a feeling one in the neck with the C-Pig would be awesome. It would be super-articulate for the kind of fast-paced phrasing you find in that kind of music.

Title: Re: Different tones, also custom neck pickup?
Post by: Teqnick on August 07, 2010, 07:33:35 AM

Thanks much guys! I've been following LiamENGL for a whlie, and that's what gave me the idea for the C-Pig in the first place. I'll also check out the current range of single coils.