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K-Roll

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more suitable pickup for a custom build
« on: May 11, 2010, 09:42:30 PM »
Hey guys,

so, here is the deal. Me and my luthier we finally finished my guitar. At last we went with the following wood combo:

7string, 25 1/2 scale
body: honduran mahogany, wenge top
neck: bolt on - rosewood/ebony plated
fingerboard: ebony

I had been advised to go with painkiller (which are currently loaded in). But the thing is that the guitar on its own plays on upper mids and its got a lot of heights (not too harsh though) sounds like a djenty LP custom where you'd pronounce the trebles a bit. cant think of a better description.
I am searching for something that would tame the presence and that would put a little more low/mid growl into the sound.

anyway here is the pic of the guitar, in real life it looks like 2 times better, the picture itself is not that great and has weird light.





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Re: more suitable pickup for a custom build
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 10:33:09 PM »
maybe a miracle man
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Re: more suitable pickup for a custom build
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2010, 05:51:47 AM »
now that's $%&#in spiffy, I dig t 8)he inlays
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Re: more suitable pickup for a custom build
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2010, 07:17:49 AM »
hey guys, thanks.. from what I know the miracle man is something like a passive emg81. To me the 81 is a high output thin sounding fizzy pickup with a lot of trebles, so I am not sure if that would be a good way to go. I am searching for something like a DiMarzio Norton tone wise, but in 7 string option of course.

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Re: more suitable pickup for a custom build
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2010, 03:09:09 PM »
high output thin sounding fizzy pickup with a lot of trebles

the miracle man is VERY thick, clean, not fizzy at all and has some smooth leads

I am searching for something like a DiMarzio Norton tone wise, but in 7 string option of course.

then you want something alnico and medium hot
the neck version of the miracle man has a similar voicing to the norton, but it's much hotter, more like a tone zone
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Re: more suitable pickup for a custom build
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2010, 04:04:27 PM »
Nailbomb, perhaps? Miracle man is not a bad call - but this can be quite different in different guitars, tending to accentuate the character of the wood quite a lot (though not universally true). I love the MM, and in my basswood ibanez, it's dark and growly, and not all that smooth, which I like.

Or just stick a warpig in it and have done :)