If you guys could describe the Cold Sweat ?

[rockguitarstar]

What are some defining characteristics of the pickups?  I know that they are designed to emulate the Jon Sykes type tone, but what else can it do?  What other types of players tones can it get, what is it most suited for?  Does the middle position with the humbuckers clean up well?  Thanks for everything...

[MDV]

Well, I have a neck one that I use for cleans and lead. In amongst the lead there is often shred. Its chimey and middy. Works brilliantly for fast rock or metal lead.

Cleans are your bell sound type afair.

Its got quite a bass to it, so works really well for dirty crunch chords, too.

Bridge, I cant help you with  :(

[TwilightOdyssey]

What are some defining characteristics of the pickups?  

Very solid, even tone. Excellent at pushing an amp into overdrive or distortion. Very tight, with a solid midrange, and very even response across the frequency spectrum.

Will deliver a very heavy hard rock, old school metal, or power metal type of tone with no issues. I would classify it as a great pickup for the Defenders Of The Faith type of tone, if you are looking for that kind of sound, then the Cold Sweat will do it, no [cold] sweat. (Forgive the pun PDT_008)

Does the middle position with the humbuckers clean up well?  

Yes, it cleans up rather well when used like that. On its own, I haven't found the CS to like playing dead clean. I have a Riff Raff, VHII, Stormy Monday, and Irish Tour to play the sqeaky clean stuff. :)

[rockguitarstar]

thanks guys, sounds like it is exactly what I wanted, tim recomended something different, but I found in the clips that it was a little buzzy if you will and not enough mid push and mids are something that I like a lot of, the cold sweats seem to respond very well to pick attack and high gain situations and I rarely if ever find myself in squeeky clean situations anyways...thanks guys

I mostly play rock, dabble into the metal area a little, but mostly my playing revolves around an attack oriented style with different attacks and rakes, tapping and the like....sounds like it is just what the doctor ordered....