Pick up advise for a BC Rich

[Dr.Pain]

I have a Warbeast 1 which was an unexpected buy a while ago mainly due to how nice the unfinished neck feels.  It's a basswood body, maple bolt on neck and rosewood fret board.  I keep this tuned in E as I mainly use to play Iron Maiden, '80's Metallica, '80's Kreator and AC/DC  I'm after a pup that will sound nice, clean across the range of distortion that's typical of the '80, for the bands mentioned, and works well for the dirty channel AC/DC stuff.

My 7string with a c-pig is great for real heavy stuff but not so great for this.  A bit too heavy.  I have an ESP too that came with EMG-ESP pups from 2007 or so.  That works quite well but got that tuned down to D.  Need to give the Warbeast a job and make it sound better.

Any ideas? :)

[darkbluemurder]

Hi,

You set a wide range of tones to be covered by just one pickup.

80s Metallica, 80s Kreator and Iron Maiden = Cold Sweat or Nailbomb, eventually Miracle Man, with Cold Sweat being my first choice.

AC/DC = Riff Raff. With a lower gain setting on the amp the Cold Sweat should do that as well.

Cheers Stephan

[Dr.Pain]

It is a wide range but if I can find something that works over that tone, doesn't have to be spot on that exact sound, then I'll be pleased.  Had a listen to cold sweat and got an email reply saying cold sweat as well so that might be the go in time.

[Nolly]

Yep, the Cold Sweat would do the majority, though I think you'd find the Nailbomb would cover the AC/DC side of things with more conviction

[Telerocker]

How would the Holy Diver do in basswood?

[Nolly]

How would the Holy Diver do in basswood?

The Holy Diver is a great match in basswood instruments, though I think the Nailbomb or Cold Sweat would be more appropriate here