Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: blacksunshine on January 29, 2006, 01:35:22 AM
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I am new to the bareknuckle experience and I am thinking of coming into the family. I am awaiting a Zakk Wylde Epiphone Camo and I want to change out the pickups in her when I get her. It comes with a maple neck and I was wondering what types of pups to check out....I know I dig the miracle man but what would go good with that pickup? I think I want to put the miracle man in the bridge.
I play alot of old heavy stuff....like metallica, megadeth, But I dig classic stuff too like Led Zep. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I will be playing her thru my Mesa Boogie F-50. Lots of gain in this amp.
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My guess is Crawlers or Cold Sweats. I think crawlers will be more voiced toward the rock sound, with more mids if thats what you're after. Cold Sweats will probably be a bit edgier/less warm because of the ceramic magnet (it does have one right?!)
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this is the specs for my mesa from their site...if that helps ya....
Handbuilt in the USA
50 Watts, Class A/B Power / 2x6L6, 4x12AX7
Fixed Bias for Consistent, Maintenance Free Performance
2 Fully Independent Channels, 3 Footswitchable Sounds (Channel 1, 2 & 2 w/Contour)
Independent Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble, Reverb & Master Controls per Channel
Pull Bright (Channel 1)
Contour Switch (Channel 2)
Long Tank Spring Reverb
Parallel FX Loop w/Mix Control
Record / Headphone Output
Silent Record Mute Switch
3 Button Footswitch (Channel 1/2, Reverb & Contour)
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Cold Sweats will probably be a bit edgier/less warm because of the ceramic magnet (it does have one right?!)
The other great neck for soloing/shredding is the new Cold Sweat neck, DC8.3K ALnico V.This is a firm fav of Chris Broderick of Jagpanzer and Steve Stevens.
As you can see from Tim's quote in another thread, the neck Cold Sweat is an alnico magnet. I would go with a calibrated pair of Miracle Man. The neck there is also alnico V but is a great pickup and extends the voice of the bridge pickup.
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+1 for the Calibrated set of Miracle Mans - they are designed to work optimally with eachother, although others have had success mixing pups, obviously.
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Cold Sweats will probably be a bit edgier/less warm because of the ceramic magnet (it does have one right?!)
The other great neck for soloing/shredding is the new Cold Sweat neck, DC8.3K ALnico V.This is a firm fav of Chris Broderick of Jagpanzer and Steve Stevens.
As you can see from Tim's quote in another thread, the neck Cold Sweat is an alnico magnet. I would go with a calibrated pair of Miracle Man. The neck there is also alnico V but is a great pickup and extends the voice of the bridge pickup.
Sorry I dont think I read that then :lol:
After listening to steve's clip of the MM again I would also say to go for that. He gets a good rock tone out of it and we all know it does metal great aswell.
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thanks for all the input guys..
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Another vote for the Miracle Man set.....with camo covers!!!!
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that could be sweet...considering the guitar itself is a camo....i have a quick question do you guys think a miracle man and a nailbomb would sound good together?
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If you're thinking about a Miracle Man bridge and a Nailbomb neck. I believe the Nailbomb neck and Miracle Man neck are pretty much identical.
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so basically it wouldnt sound any different than getting a miracle man set?
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no the Nailbomb does have a different tonal characteristic, but in terms of pickup output they aren't too different. they both are suited to heavy music, but the Nailbomb can do cleaner sounds better from what I can gather (I've got Nailbombs and have a set of Miracle Man's arriving in my next guitar).
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haha i made this years ago on paint! are you proud of me?
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super cool gives me an idea of what it would look like.