Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Exodus5 on August 29, 2014, 02:05:48 PM
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I have two mahogany guitars with maple tops and similar maple/rosewood neck/fretboard combos. Would the Painkiller sound good in either of these guitars? I had it in a LP and it sounded fine, but since both of these are thinner bodies I wonder if it will still work well?
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Sold the Ibanez, so I guess the CE is the lucky recipient of the PK. So is the Cold Sweat the go to neck pickup to pair with the PK bridge? I see them paired up a lot.
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I am sure that PK will work fine in the CE.
My Pk is paired with a riff raff neck, so I would say the CS will work ok
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The official demos on the pickup pages are (IIRC) all done with a Les Paul, so the PK should sound very similar in your guitar (depending on your rig, of course).
Zimbloth has said the PK sounds best in mahogany, better there than any other wood; I have a set in a basswood 7, and I can see how the high mids of the PK would balance awesomely with the low mids of mahogany! Probably better in the PRS than in the Ibanez, since the PRS is a slightly shorter scale, taking a little edge off, so you sold the right guitar! :wink:
Re: neck pickups, it depends on the sound you want. I love the PK neck, in my basswood it's fluid, but edgy, super clear; it like a lot of bass from my amp (model) but never ever gets muddy; with a boost and a little flange/delay/reverb, I can make it sound like an 80's analog synth! :laugh: But the CS neck is the go-to classic shred pickup, and is often paired with the PK; to my ears (I don't have one personally) it's sweeter and less edgy than the PK, but still cuts through just fine.
You can't go wrong, I think! :grin: