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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Pale Rider on September 22, 2010, 11:36:00 PM

Title: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: Pale Rider on September 22, 2010, 11:36:00 PM

Hi,
I'm interested in a tight pickup with strong lows and low mids for a deep tight heavy metal sound.

It's for a soloist style guitar. I was thinking Miracle Man actually.

I have the Holydiver and I wonder how the MM compares to the HD tone-wise....Lows-low mids-high mids-highs, tightness etc.

Maybe a ceramic warpig is an optiontoo?


Cheers!

Title: Re: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: adamj on September 22, 2010, 11:43:11 PM

all my recordings have been on a miracle man pair in an ibanez SZ520, most of them are metal tracks and i dont usually have problems getting a tight sound

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Title: Re: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: ericsabbath on September 23, 2010, 12:12:44 AM

Quote from: Nuke on September 22, 2010, 11:36:00 PM

I have the Holydiver and I wonder how the MM compares to the HD tone-wise....Lows-low mids-high mids-highs, tightness etc.

I had them in the same guitar (a brazilian mahogany les paul with imbuya top and brazilian rosewood board)
miracle man definitely had a deeper bass, sharper top and less mids (the guitar was still very mid heavy, though)
low end was huge, but very solid
the holy diver was fatter in the mids, more balanced low end, but looser, and with rounder top
hard to tell which one was better

the result will depend on the woods, body thickness, neck joint, amps...

I wouldn't install a miracle man in alder, but you're using mahogany, basswood, spanish cedar or korina, it will probably be a good match

Title: Re: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: Pale Rider on September 23, 2010, 01:58:28 AM

Thanks guys! It's gonna be a neck through 5pc korina/maple neck (3 korina/2 maple) with korina body wings.

I'm interested in low mids too. Which one is more low mid oriented? MM or HD? I think what makes tone deep is low mids too. Not how much pronounced they are but their texture if you know what I mean... I listened to quite a few tracks of the MM and it seems it can do it...

Title: Re: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: DimeZakk on September 23, 2010, 02:10:59 AM

The Miracle Man is extremely low mid heavy

Title: Re: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: Pale Rider on September 23, 2010, 02:50:35 AM

Cool, I love low mids.

Title: Re: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: Pale Rider on September 23, 2010, 07:23:56 PM

How would you compare the MM to the Seymour Duncan's Dimebucker?

Title: Re: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: DimeZakk on September 23, 2010, 07:58:57 PM

The Dimebucker is a screetchy, harsh and way too trebly sounding pickup with almost no mids while the Miracle Man is a perfect modern metal pickup with a tight low end, a screaming top end and a focus on low mids...

Title: Re: Miracle Man for deep tight sound
Post by: Pale Rider on September 23, 2010, 09:33:33 PM

Cool, seems like exactly what I need.