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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: PT Pyjamas on April 22, 2007, 07:19:41 PM

Title: New Pickups for an Ibanez RG1570?
Post by: PT Pyjamas on April 22, 2007, 07:19:41 PM
Title gives most of it away really. I play metal almost exclusively, and would like a really aggressive bridge humbucker capable of incredible sustain and harmonics. I also need a middle singlecoil suitable for nice cleans, this will be its main use. The neck humbucker will be mainly used for leads, especially sweeps, so it must give a smooth warm tone, similar to Dave Murray's for example. More info below V

Bridge: Something like Judas Priest/Firewind/Megadeth/Shadows Fall
Middle: Strat sounding clean, Hendrix-like etc.
Neck: Iron Maiden/Metallica (Fade to Black)/Firewind/Trivium

The guitar is made of basswood, and the set up is HSH
Title: New Pickups for an Ibanez RG1570?
Post by: MDV on April 22, 2007, 09:36:31 PM
My recommendations:

Bridge: Painkiller. You said 'Judas Priest' so I have to say 'Painkiller'.
Middle: Irish tour
Neck......dunno, so I'm gonna go with my stock metal neck pickup answer. Cold Sweat. The CS never fails for metal in the neck  8)
Title: New Pickups for an Ibanez RG1570?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on April 22, 2007, 11:14:42 PM
Painkiller set, unless you play the middle pickup don't bother with it, i just got a set of Holy Divers for my Ibanez and left the stock middle pup in.