Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Dr.Pain on July 18, 2011, 03:00:29 PM
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I got a Jr V 7 last week and it's great except for the pick ups. I run a Boss MT-2 and GE-7 and the BDSM's in this guitar are muddy where as my ESP AX-250 with the EMG-ESP pups it came with sounds much better.
The Jr V is mahogany body, maple neck through and ebony fret board. I was looking at an A-pig as I like a deep bottom end. Something that works well across grind core/industrial/death metal.
Anyone had any experience with A-pigs in this combination of wood?
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I think you would like the Ceramic warpig better.
Are you a Pat o' brien fan? Seems like your gear is somewhere over in his ballpark :P
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I do have a few Cannibal Corpse CD's around. I've always like that mid 90's death metal sound and the MT-2 is perfect for it but I want to get a metal core too at some point to put a more modern edge on the sound.
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which amps do you run?
Still. i think the Ceramic warpig would be your weapon of choice
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I only have a 30 watt Marshall atm, an MG30.
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After the new pickup, its amp time for you :)
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The A-Pig could be too warm in mahogany 7-string and mush up the low tones. I think a Painkiller, Aftermath or a C-bomb are the better choiches in this case.
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Might go with a painkiller as I do run a lot of bass now on the pedals(bass maxed out on MT-2 and +5 on the 100 and +10 on the 200 with the GE-7 and 3/4 bass on the amp). It's going mushy now with the BDSM's and it's annoying.
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which amps do you run?
Still. i think the Ceramic warpig would be your weapon of choice
Yeah, what he said.
I have a Clay Piggie in my main 7, and it's absolutely crushing!!
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The A-Pig could be too warm in mahogany 7-string and mush up the low tones. I think a Painkiller, Aftermath or a C-bomb are the better choiches in this case.
Not to disagree with your other suggestions (I think they're good ideas), but it's a maple neck-through with ebony fretboard and mahogany wings, most of the tone will be maple-based here. I don't think that would be too slack for an A-pig, but C-Pig sounds like the ticket here in any case.
Roo
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on another note. how do your mids look like? is it somewhere like 3-3? or 3-0?
Do you scoop your mids, have max bass and alot of treble too?
Are you 16?
Something tells me that you should think of emg-81's if all of the above are true.
:)
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Mids are low. Lots of bass and a good amount of treble and I wish I was 16 again lol.
EMG 81 7 here in Australia are ridiculous in price. Double the price of 81's and almost double the BKP prices on the site. About $300 AUD a pop which is why I'm looking at BKP.
Now that I think about it got just about as much maple as mahogany.
Thanks for the advise. I just want to avoid mushy bottom end as it pisses everyone off.
Edit: Ordered a C-Pig
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GJ! you wont be dissapointed. Now all you need to do is to play around with the pickup & pole height and you'll never change it out
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Well got it and welded it in. It's dark and I had to haul back the bass on the amp and pedals. It's border line of being too dark but it sure gives a nice booming note at B. I don't play in band but I'd say I would get lost in the mix but for playing at home its great. It's very similar to the BDSM I took out but it doesn't go muddy. It would be perfect in my Warbeast 1. Getting Peavey Vypyr tube 60 soon so will get a much better sound amp wise then and wont have to use the metal zone.
Really pleased I got it though :)
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You will readjust to the BKP.
When i got my first BKP i had to completely rethink my EQ on my amp.
Once you are rid of the MG30 you will see exactly what i mean with this as it will have a more drastic tonal effect and i think you will be a lot happier once that happens
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I used the C-pig for quite some time. And it cuts through the mix like a razorblade
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That's what I'm hoping with the new amp that it does sound a lot better. I hit the wall on the MG30 when I first got it with my ESP AX-250 but it did the job. Better amp and ditch the metal zone will be the go. The Vypyr amp seems nice and should unlock the potential in my V. Damn it's heavy but I can't make the most of it at the moment.
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i doubt that the vypyr will get you into gaintastic land. A pedal you should try is the Line 6 über metal. It has the nicest distortion i've ever heard from a pedal. Cool stuff is that is has a noise gate in it too :) i bet you can find one cheap
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Thanks for the info on that pedal. I'll be looking into that some more. I've added more mids into my metal zone and eq and it's nice with the C-pig now.
The Vypyr amp will give me flexibility in sound as I'm not always after a death metal sound on my AX-250 or my Warbeast. I'm thinking those two guitars may get some BKP's at some point too :)
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Edit: I'm a muppet. Bitching about my c-pig being too dark but if I learn to drive my amp it's fine.