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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Devon8822 on October 02, 2006, 10:27:47 PM

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: Devon8822 on October 02, 2006, 10:27:47 PM

Im looking for a pickup or 2 pickups thats suit my style. I play a strat with 2 humbuckers and one single coil. I was origionally gunna get a dimarzio superdistortion in the bridge and a paf pro in the neck and some sort of middle single coils for jazz, blues, hendrix kinda stuff. I have a wide range of styles that i play but i would like a humbucker for the bridge position that is good 70s and 80s hard rock and metal. I will need it to go from Cream and Zeppelin to Megadeth and Pantera. Most often I will need it for late 70s early 80s kinda tone (maiden, priest, scorps, sabbath). Than I will need a pickup for the neck that is good for more modern shred kinda tones like vai, satriani, gilbert, yngwie. and for cleans I will sacrafise (if i have to) to get good distortion tone, so I would have to use both humbuckers at once to get great cleans or I theres a suffiecent single coil for my middle position. Thanks alot hopefully someone can help me out and recommened some good pups, all these pups are confusing because in the description it doesnt describe them very well. thanks alot. oh and another thing, see i was origionally gunna get some dimarzio but i heard about BKP and swineshead. Does anyone know if swinesheads are any good? can they compare to BKPs? thanks again :)

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on October 02, 2006, 10:30:22 PM

I'm assuming the guitar is H/S/H. I would definitely do a Cold Sweat/Trilogy/Cold Sweat combo!
Or, you could go CS/Irish Tour/CS.

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: dave_mc on October 02, 2006, 10:37:16 PM

I have a set of swineys, it's not really fair to talk about them on here though, since BK are paying for the bandwidth.

Basically, the general consensus is that BK are better, but of course are more expensive.

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: fps_dean on October 03, 2006, 03:00:49 AM

I think Nailbombs with an Irish Tour in the middle would be as good if not better too.

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: Devon8822 on October 03, 2006, 01:23:19 PM

What other options are their for me so i can look at a couple and then decide?

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: rockguitarstar on October 04, 2006, 07:33:36 AM

VHII! VHII!  VHII! VHII! VHII! VHII!

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: Devon8822 on October 04, 2006, 08:21:38 PM

Time Mills recommends
Bridge Nailbomb
Middle Irish Tour
Neck Cold Sweat

for me. It seems like alot of those where said by you guys. So as of now I think they look lke good options but could you guys recommend a couple more so i can do a bit of research on each one and see if these really are the ones i should go for. thanks alot, could you plz post:
neck......
middle....
bridge...
for what you think would be best for my styles. thanks alot

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: indysmith on October 04, 2006, 08:26:28 PM

sorry man i'm going to have to a gree with Tim - once you've asked him it really is all the info yu need. He's always right

Title: Best pups for my style?
Post by: Devon8822 on October 04, 2006, 08:36:09 PM

Ok, well than cool.... im probably gunna go with what tim says but i just wanted to get more opinions, i need to learn more about bareknuckles. what other pups may fite my liking?