Author Topic: neck pickup (Read 4300 times)

MDV · « **on:** June 20, 2006, 09:27:00 PM »

Hey folks

I'm getting a legra (as soon as I've hammered out the specs with bob!). Its most likely going to be some mix of mahogany and maple (maple thru, mahogany wings, other way around, straight up bolt on, 3 piece neck, I dunno yet *shrugs*).

I'll be putting my uber-miracle man in the bridge. I want to start thinking about the neck pickup.

I was thinking for clear, middy shred tones, the cold sweat. But what are its cleans like? Would it pair well with the woods? Does it split well?

Or for all-round goodness a warpig or miracle man. Is there much difference?

Could I get enough gain out of a mule if I want to go with a cleaner pickup?

I'm a big fan of neck singles and love my irish tours adn uber-trillogies. Whats the best BK for a split sound that still has plenty of oomph?

Opinions of the holy diver neck, and comparisons with the others, would be nice if possible, too.

Any other thoughts or suggestions?

Cheers guys.

Tim · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2006, 09:44:17 PM »

The Coldsweat is great clean and splits really well.............at DC8.3K it's hot enough for serious articulate shred but run clean it really chimes.
The Holydiver neck is a little cleaner with a little less power............neither are 'vintage' but more contemporary in voice.

MDV · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2006, 09:46:56 PM »

Ok, thats sold me. Cold sweat it is! Cheers dude

I'll be onto you when the time is nigh!

dave_mc · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2006, 10:58:12 PM »

^ ah, cool, you decided to go with the legra then mark? awesome.

Still have to get back to bob, just need to get my trem sorted out first...

:drink:

MDV · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2006, 09:17:47 PM »

Had to be done, mate. Had enough of this not-quite-right sh!t. I dont expect miracles, but a guy like bobs probably my best bet (no offence to the other luthiers here: the choice of legra was a cost-benefit thing).

dave_mc · « **Reply #5 on:** June 22, 2006, 12:23:51 AM »

^ agreed, mark. Every time I look at an off-the-shelf guitar (and the ibanez rga121 was the last one, and very nice it was too, but...) the amount of upgrades I'd have to do to get it up to spec would just buy me a custom-made guitar... and there are still probably a few niggles, so i figure I might just as well get a custom.

meh, hopefully I'll get round to it in a few months. Things are still a bit hectic, just submitted my thesis today, just have to learn it all now, lol. Can't be thinking about guitars too. Ok, that's a lie. But I can't afford to be thinking about guitars with a view to buying, lol, since that's a lot more serious.

And let me know what it's like when you get it! How's the tremel-no, by the way? PM me if you don't want to clog up your thread, lol.

:drink:

MDV · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2006, 08:45:54 PM »

This threads dead; I made my choice.

The tremolno is now tremolnos. It was easily good enough for me to get one for my other FR.

Ironically enough the ability to switch between floating, fixed and dive has increased my use of the trem, as I previously had them blocked (cunningly with bits of an ATX case: the bits for new cards in the back jam in there very well). So its helped me get some trem-abusing 'skills' (such as they are, I'm no jeff beck!) as well as doing everything its supposed to just as well as it promised to. A rare product indeed!

dave_mc · « **Reply #7 on:** June 24, 2006, 11:40:09 PM »

^ ah, cool. I'll have to get one (or two!) of those tremelnos then.

I assume it voids the trem warranty though? :( (I'd be getting new trems :( )

I know using different studs would void my warranty... I assume the tremelno is the same...

MDV · « **Reply #8 on:** June 26, 2006, 12:13:25 PM »

I wouldnt have thought so: the stud dimensions affect the life of the trem. The tremolno doesnt: it just replaced the claw.

They may get arsey about it, but its easily reversable: it could easily have never been there. Not like wear from narrow pegs.

dave_mc · « **Reply #9 on:** June 26, 2006, 04:56:18 PM »

^ ah, ok, cool.

So it went in with no mods, mark (bar the ground wire being soldered to the new tremelno claw)?

:drink:

MDV · « **Reply #10 on:** June 26, 2006, 09:00:04 PM »

No mods, no soldering. The TN has a little screw that you hold the ground wire to the claw with!

Well thought out all round. You can put them in and take them out with no alterations to to the guitar or the TN.

dave_mc · « **Reply #11 on:** June 26, 2006, 10:28:46 PM »

^ ah ok, cool! :D

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