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vejiita

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Which Pickup for all maple guitar?need advice
« on: February 24, 2008, 08:59:19 PM »
Hi everybody.

  I need some advice.. i have a homemade strat guitar made of soft maple body with maple fingerboard/maple neck and a floyd rose.
The guitar has a humbucker in the bridge and a single coil in the neck.
right now This guitar sounds thin/shrill/very bright/trebly.  
I am thinking of changing the pickups on this guitar. Do you guys have any pickup recommendations?
The sound i am looking for are Dream theater/Van halen/george lynch. a pickup that is big thick/meaty with lots of low end.


any advice/recommendation is appreciated.
thanks in advance

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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2008, 09:03:35 PM »
Holy Diver. If I'm not mistaken this is THE pickup for warming up a strat.
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2008, 09:10:02 PM »
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzk3VygT0y8

One of TO's clips there

there are some funny comments down there, people telling him to put in diff pickups lol

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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2008, 09:38:05 AM »
I agree.  Holy Diver is superb in bright guitars (actually it's superb full stop, but I'm biased :))
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2008, 11:04:29 AM »
after advice from Tim, and TO, I went ceramic in a maple bodied guitar and I've never looked back.
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2008, 12:56:49 PM »
Tim also mentioned the miracle man pickup for me. but since its ceramic i am afraid it will be too bright.

whats the difference between the holy diver and miracle man. which will be better for dream theater or heavy style music?

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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2008, 02:44:54 PM »
can't speak for 'dream theatre', but you mentioned van halen and george lynch - and that sort of thing is the bread and butter of a miracle man in an all maple guitar... well mine at least ;)
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2008, 03:42:17 PM »
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Tim also mentioned the miracle man pickup for me. but since its ceramic i am afraid it will be too bright.

whats the difference between the holy diver and miracle man. which will be better for dream theater or heavy style music?

Every Miracle Man clip I've heard sounded very bright, which I figure is good for some, but if your taste, like mine, is more towards the warm/beefy bridge pickup, it's probably not for you. Especially in an already bright guitar. Listen to some clips and get more aquainted before taking the plunge.
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