weight releived les paul studio bridge pup

[brian_ward]

i have a black dog in there now. it sounds great by itself but it doesnt quite have the cut in the mix i need it to. i think this has something to do with the pup having a lot of mid-mids and my les paul being weight relieved and being pretty mid-middy(does have a maple cab on it). i play post hardcore and like a pretty thick/bassy tone but not a muddy one. im kind of thinking of venturing into the ceramic realm as im kind of looking for that extra midrange nastiness. im thinking a painkiller or maybe even an aftermath although the aftermath might be too mid-mid heavy for my application.

thoughts? suggestions?

[brian_ward]

also, i play through a clone superbass/superlead mutant-child, a matmp gt1, or a sunn model t reissue. we tune to Eb standard.

[dheim]

my one and only suggestion is a ceramic warpig!
fat but asbolutely not muddy and not really dark. just HUGE.
with the nastiest midrange you can possibly imagine... :)

[brian_ward]

my one and only suggestion is a ceramic warpig!
fat but asbolutely not muddy and not really dark. just HUGE.
with the nastiest midrange you can possibly imagine... :)

the thought had crossed my mind. whats the mid range sittuation (low-mid-high)? im not quite getting the cut i need from the black dog.

[brian_ward]

what about a painkiller with double screw slugs?

[dheim]

my one and only suggestion is a ceramic warpig!
fat but asbolutely not muddy and not really dark. just HUGE.
with the nastiest midrange you can possibly imagine... :)

the thought had crossed my mind. whats the mid range sittuation (low-mid-high)? im not quite getting the cut i need from the black dog.

midrange is huge and very aggressive, with dominant lo-mid mids and less hi mids. don't expect a response and a tone even comparable with the BD, that's after all a vintage pickup... i can't imagine a WP not cutting through the mix, and i'm not just talking about its sheer power, of course...

[dheim]

what about a painkiller with double screw slugs?

i can't say anything about the twin slugs option, but i've tried PKs in a low-mid-middy ESP eclipse, and results were painfully disappointing... they sounded quite aggressive but very "flat".
after all i decided that i don't like the bridge PK, and i'm planning to swap my last one with something else... C-Pig or something more curious (ceramic pig90...), i haven't decided yet...

[Telerocker]

Consider a Rebel Yell too.

[ratspeak]

dheim said it. Ceramic Warpig would be perfect. Mine is in a very mid-middy maple neck-thru guitar. It really does sound HUGE! So much so that caps-lock is mandatory. I bought it with lots of progressive/technical stuff in mind, but I'm playing with a post-hc influenced group right now and it actually works very well.

[brian_ward]

c-pig just was so much output! its definitely fat though. bump for more discussion.