New here, Considering a WAR PIG, Help me out please!!

[wintersun]

Jeeezus

I leave you alone for five minutes and look!

Seriously, arguments are an extreme rareity here, lets try to keep it that way. Talk pickups, people.

I here what youre saying about the MM in your guitars, eric. I dont doubt thats what your heard. I'm just suggesting that its a bit of a special case - in my alder/mahogany Epi LP it was a bit dark, I believe because the low mids added (or, rather, there wasnt enough treble in the guitars tone to come through strongly over all the low mid). In my alder/maple Dean superstrat it had/has (I have a somwhat modded MM in there now) a thick low and low mid and a bright, crystaline high end.

Iron Lotus, given that you dont exactly want a BKP EMG (thankfully - I like them too, but never the twain shall the tones of these two brands meet), you want it to melt flesh in low tunings and be responsive to the volume, I'd say youre on the right track with a C-Pig. Very much so. I wouldnt go for an MM because they dont back off well. Pigs, strangely, do. (And so do painkillers, but the C-pig will keep you in the gain to which you've become accustomed).

For the neck: the closest BK to the 60 is a Cold Sweat (at least the closest I know of).

Finaly some voice of reason here. And I give +1 for cold sweat, you can't go wrong with it, if you're into metal.

[Iron Lotus]

Iron Lotus, given that you dont exactly want a BKP EMG (thankfully - I like them too, but never the twain shall the tones of these two brands meet), you want it to melt flesh in low tunings and be responsive to the volume, I'd say youre on the right track with a C-Pig. Very much so. I wouldnt go for an MM because they dont back off well. Pigs, strangely, do. (And so do painkillers, but the C-pig will keep you in the gain to which you've become accustomed).

For the neck: the closest BK to the 60 is a Cold Sweat (at least the closest I know of).

THANK YOU!!!!!! Finally back on topic  :P

Yea you are spot on with your words. I do alot of technical stuff
in there, Triplets, lots of pinkie work... And do slow it up
for a heavy ass break down when needed. I think the slightly tighter
C pig would be better too, especially since I slide from A to B
tunings depending the mood. Right now Im really feeling the A
with the 70 strings. Nice and thick and stays tight.

At first I will just be putting in a bridge pickup and
covering the neck. When neck time comes if I love
the pickup then I will definatly check out the cold sweat.

So anyway, What all do I need,  to switch from
the actives in my eclipse, To the passive 2 wire
warpig. I mean exactly  :P

Im excited to try something new, Ive been playing EMGs
since years ago and love them but I want to be
a bit different, But in a good way. Not to sound clique
but Im striving to be more "brewtallz" than the current
EMG's and keep the clarity EMG's have. Do these things
compare to the emg's response to pinch harmonics
and things like that?

[MDV]

You'll find that the c-pig is considerably heavier than the 81, round about as tight and if anything more clear.

They are much more adjustable too. BKs are very sensitive to distance from the string, so with a pig you can fine tune both the height and the tone with the relative height of the bridgewards and neckwards poles. The sensitivity is orders of magnitude greater than an 81.

[Iron Lotus]

OK well what all pots etc, etc, do I need then.

What can I keep in the Eclipse, What has to go.