Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Dr.Pain on August 11, 2011, 02:24:42 PM
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I have a Warbeast 1 which was an unexpected buy a while ago mainly due to how nice the unfinished neck feels. It's a basswood body, maple bolt on neck and rosewood fret board. I keep this tuned in E as I mainly use to play Iron Maiden, '80's Metallica, '80's Kreator and AC/DC I'm after a pup that will sound nice, clean across the range of distortion that's typical of the '80, for the bands mentioned, and works well for the dirty channel AC/DC stuff.
My 7string with a c-pig is great for real heavy stuff but not so great for this. A bit too heavy. I have an ESP too that came with EMG-ESP pups from 2007 or so. That works quite well but got that tuned down to D. Need to give the Warbeast a job and make it sound better.
Any ideas? :)
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Hi,
You set a wide range of tones to be covered by just one pickup.
80s Metallica, 80s Kreator and Iron Maiden = Cold Sweat or Nailbomb, eventually Miracle Man, with Cold Sweat being my first choice.
AC/DC = Riff Raff. With a lower gain setting on the amp the Cold Sweat should do that as well.
Cheers Stephan
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It is a wide range but if I can find something that works over that tone, doesn't have to be spot on that exact sound, then I'll be pleased. Had a listen to cold sweat and got an email reply saying cold sweat as well so that might be the go in time.
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Yep, the Cold Sweat would do the majority, though I think you'd find the Nailbomb would cover the AC/DC side of things with more conviction
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How would the Holy Diver do in basswood?
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How would the Holy Diver do in basswood?
The Holy Diver is a great match in basswood instruments, though I think the Nailbomb or Cold Sweat would be more appropriate here