Gettin the old rock sound help

[Althy]

Hello!

I'd like my guitar to sound like Accept, Scorpions, Michael Schenker, thin Lizzy, Girlschool ... Old school hard rock and be able too to play bluesy stuff like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rory Gallagher, Wishbone Ash... I think that the neck pickup should be a little bit brightter than the bridge pickup.

 The guitar I've got is a LTD by ESP v-500, mahogany body, maple neck set thru, EMG 81 pickup set. The bridge is a Schaller Floyd Rose tremolo (it's not the original one). The tone I get from my V is completly disgusting for me: too loud, sounds compressed when chords are played, cold, too bright and has a really fat sound. I was thinking about the crawler in the bridge and the riff raff in neck position. But I dunno if it would be a good combination to sound as I want to.

Thank's a lot,

Carlos Garces

[HTH AMPS]

for what you've listed, I'd agree on the Crawler - it will do all that stuff.  also, with having a floyd rose, I think you need a bit of a hotter pickup to get the fatness back that the floyd robs.

for the neck, I like brighter pickups too.  your idea of the Riff Raff seems sound and I see no reason why it wouldn't match with the Crawler since the crawler neck in the calibrated set is essentially just a Mule wound a tiny bit hotter.

[ericsabbath]

for accept and thin lizzy I'd definitely recommend the cold sweat and riff raff for schenker, but not if you don't like brightness on the bridge position
maybe the emerald?

[badgermark]

Why don't you want to go for a brighter bridge/fatter neck? Not that I'm attacking your choice, I'm just curious. BKP pickups are very clear in the neck position, not muddy like other manufacturers.

[Althy]

Hi!

First of all thank you for suggesting. I like when a rock riff sounds heavy but noy necessari dark or bright, just something balanced similar in that to the original PAF. If you play on the lowest frets, specially in the 1rst string the sound I get with my EMG 81 is too bright for my taste so I want a contundent bridge pickup but not bright at all. The neck pickup I want it a little brighter because in the neck position it sounds warmer than in bridge position, but I want it to be warmer than the bridge but not too much. I'll install the pickups with the posibility to turn from a humbucker to a single coil.

I forgot to say that I use a Boss Ds1 distorsion and a digitech bad monkey.

Thank's again.

[Spat]

Just to throw a spanner in the works for my money the best bridge for the Schenker/Scorpions tone is the Black Dog in my Les Paul custom it nails it with ease.