Cold Sweat & Trilogy ?

[Dazza1004]

I am going to order some BKP’s to replace the stock pups in my Yamaha Pacifica, this has become my main guitar due to the way it feels and plays.
I tend to play with a fair bit of distortion, mainly stuff like Satch, Zakk etc but I do cover a lot of ground style-wise.
I am thinking about going for a Cold Sweat bridge with a Trilogy middle and neck but. What do you guys reckon, would this be a fairly versatile combo cable of giving me the sounds I want ?

Cheers

[TwilightOdyssey]

It's a great-sounding combination!
I have a Cold Sweat/Trilogy Suite combo in one of my guitars and it rocks!!

[Dazza1004]

Hi mate. thanks for the reply.

Can you still get that honky strat sound when the neck and middle are on together ?

[TwilightOdyssey]

Well, my pickups are wired a bit strange, in that I use a 3 position switch, and when the switch is in the middle position, you get the neck pickup and one coil of the Cold Sweat, wired in parallel. This gives me a very even, rich tone ... almost buttery.

I've never heard any Stat-like 'quack' tones from that setup, per se, but it's a tone I've never been interested in. Even my actual Fender Stratocaster is currently wired with a single humbucker!

I'd be more than happy to make a quick recording for you, as well.

[crispsandwich]

Another combination to think about would be a Trilogy Suite neck, Mother's Milk middle and Nailbomb bridge. I have that combination in my Richwood Strat copy and it covers all the ground I need. So much versatility. I also have a coil tap on the Nailbomb. It splits very well. The NB is a bit lower output than the CS but it cuts through really well. It's a very versatile pickup.