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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: fdesalvo on April 02, 2022, 05:36:30 PM

Title: Considering Polymath Bridge to Level-up Metal Tone
Post by: fdesalvo on April 02, 2022, 05:36:30 PM

Edit:  I did it.

Hey, gang. Long time!  Hope this note finds you all and yours well.

I’ve been able to do a lot with the Abraxas bridge in terms of producing pretty decent metal tones. After feeling I needed a little more push for lead work, I stepped outside of the franchise and found what I was looking for in the DiMarzio Gravity Storm, which caught me off guard. Now, here I am looking for a little more once again. I think I’ve landed on the Polymath bridge.

Here’s a sample of what I have been able to do with the Abraxas and Gravity Storm:

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/bEKbPt7VgWFxrVKF9

I’m looking to push this sound a little further into the modern/contemporary spectrum. I don’t do djent, but I’m willing to take a gamble that a djenty-fresh pickup could modern metal or perhaps thrash in a more classically appointed and tuned guitar.

The guitar it’s going into is a Warmoth 25.5” scale soloist with a string through TOM, ash body/black limba cap, and a black limba neck with an ebony board.  Past pickups I’ve already tried include:

-crawler
-miracle man
-juggernaut
-holy diver
-rebel yell
-vhii

Pardon the appearance of self-aggrandizing spam, but I’ve got the fever, brothers!

Title: Re: Considering Polymath Bridge to Level-up Metal Tone
Post by: Nolly on April 03, 2022, 03:34:55 AM

I just want to reassure you that the Polymath bridge isn’t a twangy/bright “djent”‘pickup, it’s actually all about big musical midrange, tight low end and chirpy high end. If you like the Abraxas but want substantially more tightness, more harmonics and a bit more drive, the Polymath will serve you very well

Title: Re: Considering Polymath Bridge to Level-up Metal Tone
Post by: fdesalvo on April 03, 2022, 03:57:06 AM

Thanks, Nolly. Didn’t mean to paint that glorious pickup into a stylistic corner.  I misphrased some of my rant. All the samples of the Polymath are inspiring for certain and it’s def a step in the direction I want to  go. Pretty astonished by how nice the clean sounds are, as well.

Thanks again for weighing in.

Frank

Title: Re: Considering Polymath Bridge to Level-up Metal Tone
Post by: Yellowjacket on May 07, 2022, 04:34:16 AM

Quote from: fdesalvo on April 03, 2022, 03:57:06 AM

Thanks, Nolly. Didn’t mean to paint that glorious pickup into a stylistic corner.  I misphrased some of my rant. All the samples of the Polymath are inspiring for certain and it’s def a step in the direction I want to  go. Pretty astonished by how nice the clean sounds are, as well.

Thanks again for weighing in.

Frank

Awesome to see you around again!

Let us know how the Polymath works out.

Title: Re: Considering Polymath Bridge to Level-up Metal Tone
Post by: fdesalvo on May 07, 2022, 05:02:23 AM

Hey dude!  Long time. Hope all is well!  I ended up taking the guitar into a different direction. Have a Duncan Jupiter in the bridge. Sledgehammer.