Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Hammurabi on June 07, 2005, 05:52:12 AM
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I need new pickups, but I have no idea what would be the best choice for them. The problem is I'm in two very different bands. In one of them I need to play about as clean as possible. Think acoustic sim. In the other band I need to play about as heavily as possible. If you've ever heard System of a Down's song "BYOB" that's exactly what I'm looking for.
Being a college student I don't have much cash to throw around. I only have one guitar (mahogany neck and body, 2 humbuckers) and I can't afford to buy another. I only have enough $ to replace my currently sucky pickups. So, what would be a good pup combination to best satisfy both needs?
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VH2s would be a great starting point. Good clean tones and enough power to get things rocking without too much effort on your part. Tap the coils for some great strat/tele like tones. Works a treat on my old PRS.
You could go for a Nailbomb, that's about as far as you'd want to go if clean tones are a priority.
Go for Alnico over ceramic. The splits will sound sweeter! :P
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Ditto.
Also worth considering is a Warpig.............this humbucker is seriously heavy when used in series but split it down or run in parallel and it's crystal clean.
Welcome to the forum!
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So would a VH2 neck/Warpig bridge work well together?
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Might do, but if I was going for a Warpig bridge, I'd get one for the neck to in a calibrated set, then wire the neck in parallel as Tim suggests. Parellel wiring is a great half single half bucker type tone, great for clean tones.
Do any of the clips help?
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This whole parellel thingy for the neck pickup has me quite interested. What does it sound like with distortion? And does it affect the tone of the bridge pickup?
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Do any of the clips help?
Some of those clips are pretty impressive, but I didn't find any humbucker clips with much clean chord work or anything like System of a Down. It seems everyone here has better taste in tone than what I'm lookiing for.
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It kind of gets straty but without the noise, best way I can describe it.
It doesn't effect the bridge, unless you parellel wire the bridge too, it's just how you wire up the humbucker coils.
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It's either the Nailbomb or the Warpig, I think. To be honest, I think the Nailbomb would get you closer to the SOAD sound than the Warpig. SOAD isn't half as bassy as it might seem and their clean sound is very jangly.