Please help me in choosing a humbucker

[Acolmiztli]

Hey all, I've been lurking for a while, but now that I have a bit of spare cash, I registered to ask for your advice.

I play metal, but not your more standard metal like Metallica and Maiden. I'm more into what is called in certain rings as post-metal, although I don't really like that term. Some of my favourite bands (and subsequently their tones) are:

Tool
ISIS
Pelican
A Perfect Circle
Meshuggah
Mouth Of The Architect
Oceansize
The Ocean
Jesu
Godspeed You Black Emperor

In terms of distorted tones, I like dark tones with crunch. The most fitting tone I can think of is in a song by ISIS called "The Beginning And The End" and you can hear that one here:

http://www.sgnl05.com/media/index.htm

I use a Pod XT Live, and I'm getting nice tones with my stock pickups on my Ibanez SA260FM (left handed). But I'd like to maybe try a new humbucker pickup.

I can put a Bareknuckle humbucker in with the stock single coil pickups right?? Pretty sure I can, but best to ask a silly question.

Anyway, if you know of any of those bands, you'll have a good idea of the kind of music I'm writing. But I'm not sure which humbucker to go for? The Warpig looks to be the "flagship" pickup, but I don't know if the product range is really designed in a hierarchical way.

Thanks in advance!

[Antag]

Nobody is going to agree with me, but I'll say it anyway: HOLY DIVER :)

Massive fat midrange & quite dark sounding.  With the right amp settings you can get some seriously thick tones out of it, absolutely huge weight to single notes & effortless harmonic feedback.

Although you didn't mention Godflesh (the Jesu I've heard is Godflesh in all but name) I often think the HD gives me that guitar sound best.  You said "dark tones with crunch" & IMO that sums the HD up nicely.

I can put a Bareknuckle humbucker in with the stock single coil pickups right??

Yes, you can wire up a BKP humbucker with the stock single coils in your guitar.

The Warpig looks to be the "flagship" pickup, but I don't know if the product range is really designed in a hierarchical way

No, the range isn't hierarchical from a quality point of view - humbuckers on the product page are aligned into Vintage, Vintage Hot & Contempory categories roughly by output level & intended tone.  The Warpig is the highest output & perhaps the pickup BKP are most famous for, but there isn't a cheapo option.

Hope this helps & welcome to the forum :)

[TwilightOdyssey]

Well, I for one like "standard metal".


I would recommend the Nailbomb.

[BloodMountain]

i would recommend Nailbomb too... it is very versatile - from almost Meshuggah style heaviness to tool and A perfect circle style cleans, like on tool - right in two.

[Acolmiztli]

I went with the nailbomb. Man... I feel a pang of guilt spending more money on music stuff, but oh well....

[Acolmiztli]

Well, I for one like "standard metal".

Aww don't feel bad, I didn't mean to offend your ittle biddy tastey buddy bud buds.

 :lol: