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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: alias7 on December 17, 2012, 12:18:34 PM

Title: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: alias7 on December 17, 2012, 12:18:34 PM

 I'm just thinking that some heavy gauge strings and low tuning you will be able to produce massive tones without adding a 7th. Has anyone tried that?

Title: Re: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: GuitarIv on December 17, 2012, 05:44:21 PM

Help yourself with a 6 string Painkiller or an Aftermath. Tightness no matter how low you go. Chug away!

Title: Re: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: alias7 on December 18, 2012, 01:37:59 PM

Quote from: GuitarIv on December 17, 2012, 05:44:21 PM

Help yourself with a 6 string Painkiller or an Aftermath. Tightness no matter how low you go. Chug away!

Thanks man but actually I was thinking of a nailbomb for bridge and cold sweet for neck position. I play Testament, Nevermore,In Flames etc..

Title: Re: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: GuitarIv on December 18, 2012, 01:40:25 PM

I can't help you too much with nailing a particular tone as I only own a Holydiver and two Slowhands, my knowledge comes from spending way too much time on this forum, so I'd suggest you to email BKP directly or wait until someone else pops in :/

Title: Re: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: ericsabbath on December 18, 2012, 06:14:57 PM

Quote from: alias7 on December 18, 2012, 01:37:59 PM

Quote from: GuitarIv on December 17, 2012, 05:44:21 PM

Help yourself with a 6 string Painkiller or an Aftermath. Tightness no matter how low you go. Chug away!

Thanks man but actually I was thinking of a nailbomb for bridge and cold sweet for neck position. I play Testament, Nevermore,In Flames etc..

that's definitely a miracle man set job

Title: Re: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: alias7 on December 19, 2012, 06:02:03 PM

MMs...But I have my blues and rock times too...If MMs are capable of such tones too I'm ok, really like their dirt sound and you seem pretty sure about them..As far as I know CSs are really good in clean and solo tones.Tim suggested Nbs.Anyways before that what do you think of the idea? Are you talking about 7 or 6 string pups?

Title: Re: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: ericsabbath on December 20, 2012, 12:11:55 AM

the miracle man set is pretty versatile
the neck model is pretty hot, but not in an aggressive way
it has a quite fat, round and fluid smooth tone
more jazzy than bluesy, but will deliver nevermore-like leads easily
bridge model is definitely the perfect pickup for the bands you mentioned, and also does a great job in hard rock, modern rock, fusion and still cleans up quite well for crunchy stuff
it does neat cleans if you know how to use your volume knob properly

what is the guitar model and woods?

Title: Re: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: darkbluemurder on December 20, 2012, 08:49:51 AM

Eric is right. I have a Miracle Man in an alder strat as the sole pickup. There is only a volume and a push-pull tone pot which allows me to shut off one coil for a single coil tone. This simple set up is surprisingly versatile, and I play nothing heavier than 80s hair metal stuff. Works for blues, too, but as Eric said, use the volume pot on the guitar. BTW I forgot to mention that I use a 500k log pot with a treble bleed circuit of a 150pf cap with a 1 meg resistor in parallel.

Cheers Stephan

Title: Re: 7 string pickup in a 6 string guitar
Post by: alias7 on December 20, 2012, 12:43:20 PM

I' m cosidering of building up a custom 6 with swamp ash body or alder or mahogany, but currently I have a epi les paul and an Ibanez 1570 basswood