Gibson explorer pickup change

[MDV]

well the tone i'am looking for is the modern thrash sound but with the added bass from the explorer i'am hoping for a more sinister heavy sound. but with still the characteristics of the modern thrash sound. the high end shoudn't be shrill but must cut through. i want the pinch harmonics to be more clear and "popping".

also overal i want a more articulate pickup for fast single noted riffs. and staccato palm muting.

with sinister heavy sound i mean the tone in LoG's laid to rest.

i find it to be very hard to descripe a certain tone, maybe i want to much.

but something close to my description should be awesome.

Well if you'd opened with that I'd have said nailbomb or painkiller, depending high tight and aggressive you want it.

[HTH AMPS]

agreed, Nailbombs for LOG - they have the right amount of bass for that stuff and the top end is PHAT.

otoh, for more of a 'thrash' vibe I'd go with Miracle Mans but find them a bit light on bass/low mids - maybe a MM with dual screw-poles and wound a bit hotter would be the order of the day (like MDV's br00talz MM)

[dheim]

agreed, Nailbombs for LOG - they have the right amount of bass for that stuff and the top end is PHAT.

otoh, for more of a 'thrash' vibe I'd go with Miracle Mans but find them a bit light on bass/low mids - maybe a MM with dual screw-poles and wound a bit hotter would be the order of the day (like MDV's br00talz MM)

i know, soon i'll have mine installed so i'll stop asking about MMs...
but i think they're the only BKPs about wich NOONE seem to agree... many say that they have got a huge bottom together with screaming highs, you (and you're not alone) say that they lack bass...

i'll discover myself but i have to say i'm still A BIT confused...  :?

[MDV]

The MM will be bassy in a bassy guitar. Lots of treble all the time.

You go up on the high strings and it sings and screams, really smooth and fluid but with a nice pick attack. The lows have the same sort of treble on them (pick attack for thrash :D) and if there are lows for it to pickup they will do so very well.

In an Epi LP I've had a miracle man be pure black-album tone - thick and dark and chewey. Same miracle man in my dean custom (maple neck, alder body) was bright, lush crunch and snappy pick attack.

My Monster MM (DSP, 23k) is like a smoother, darker c-pig.  The very high highs and very low lows are tailed off on it a bit (compared to the c-pig; compared to a standard MM its sort of shifted down a bit; lower lows and not as much high extension) and its got a really thick low mid.