Pickups for the Petrucci sound.

[mbchepburn]

Just wondered which set would serve me best. I know it's a no brainer that the Cold Sweat neck is a clear choice. But what about the bridge? I'm leaning toward the Ceramic Nailbomb, but what do you suggest?

[mbchepburn]

This is the exact email I sent to Tim. if you could recommend me a pickup pair, it would be greatly appreciated:

I wondered if you could please recommend pickups for another guitar too. I'm
actually having 2 custom guitars made. Well I'm considering it, the first
guitar I mentioned I'm thinking of just getting a similar guitar with the
same specs from a shop. What I wanted to ask was what pickups I should use
for Progressive Metal. The styles are in the range of Dream Theater.
Riffing, speedy soloing, clean arpeggiated chords, but able to clean up when
the volume gets backed up. Basically a pickup that can do all this whilst
retaining a sharp clarity for the complicated leads usually heard in prog.
The guitar body will have a mahogany tone block where the pickups will be
mounted into, with alder wings and a maple top. The neck will be a 24 fret
bolt on; as for the wood, I'm not too sure whether to get mahogany or maple.
Most probably maple seeing as it's smoother and has a faster feel. The fret
board will be either rosewood or ebony. I'll also have a floating tremolo as
well.

[Emperoff]

I hope you used paragraphs with Tim at least...

You'll be fine with a Holydiver

[lyonk55]

I mentioned Dream Theater in an message I sent Tim about a year ago and he said A-Bomb, but that was in basswood. Your guitar sounds like a JP6 BFR, therefore sound like it should be nice.

[mbchepburn]

The JP6 has a basswood body, not mahogany, alder & maple. And yh I was thinking the alnico nailbomb, but I play a lot of metal so the ceramic might sound a bit better. It's a very hard choice. How is ur A-Bomb for playing metal riffs etc?

[lyonk55]

I was meaning the BFR models: pretty sure they're alder + mahogany and the normal ones are basswood.

I remember it being pretty good in standard tuning, but not quite so good as it got lower. It's been a while since I've had it in that guitar though. In my Les Paul copy, it sound a bit heavier and takes lower tunings pretty well - metal isn't a problem.

And yeah, it takes me ages to make any decisions here too - everything sounds appealing.