Swamp Ash Tone Machine

[G9]

Guitar is a 6-string brazen fantasy deluxe, swamp ash body, 5pc maple/redwood neck, and flamed maple fretboard. Already got a push-pull split pot on the master tone dial.

I want general rock, alternative, and classic metal sounds on the gain end. Neck I want as creamy as possible. Bridge/neck split position should sound close to an acoustic, nice and jangly.

Thank you.

[Zaned]

I would say a calibrated set of Crawlers. One of the most versatile sets and well capable of the tones you mentioned.

EDIT: Or maybe an Abrazas neck? I remember reading here that it is very similar to the Crawler, but a tad sweeter.

-Zaned

[MDV]

Crawlers on all counts but the janglyness.

That, I guess, mules or stormy mondays.

So, crawlers or mules.

[G9]

Are you sure these will work with higher gain, crunchy modern rock tones?

What's the difference between Crawlers, Mules, Stormy Mondays, and Abraxas?

[MDV]

I'm sure the crawlers will. The rest would just be guesses

abraxis - yeah, quite similar to crawlers, I'm told.
Mules - yes, if you have the amp for it
SMs - probably not

[G9]

So how does an Abrax neck, Crawler bridge sound? Or would it be better to get a set?

[MDV]

Dunno about abraxis neck really, havent tried one. From what I understand you wont get the 'jangly' from it. The crawlers are warm, lush thick prominent mids, tight punchy lows in the bridge, both neck and bridge can plot a rough chart of the entire evolution of rock tones from led zep and free to slayer and metallica by increasing the guitars volume (amp and setting permitting), but jangly? No.

[G9]

Dunno about abraxis neck really, havent tried one. From what I understand you wont get the 'jangly' from it. The crawlers are warm, lush thick prominent mids, tight punchy lows in the bridge, both neck and bridge can plot a rough chart of the entire evolution of rock tones from led zep and free to slayer and metallica by increasing the guitars volume (amp and setting permitting), but jangly? No.

Aren't you the guy who insisted on getting parallel wirings for my 7-string painkiller pickups? Reason why I brought that up is because I'm going to post some recording for examples from my S7320... the thin body and small chamber couldn't fit enough push-pull's to do it, so I just went with the simple 5-way switch (neck full, neck split, neck/bridge full, neck/bridge split, bridge full).

By jangly, I mean something as bright or brighter than the first section of this clip, "This Godless Endeavor" by Nevermore. Here it is a bridge/neck split, but in the Fantasy Deluxe it could either be this or just a bridge split by itself. By creamy I mean something as smooth and warm or more so (maybe not the same definition most people hold) as the two Rammstein "Seemann" takes (apologies for the screw-up near the end). The first clip was neck split, the second neck full. Primarily, I want fantastic cleans for this swamp ash guitar.

Spider III 15 clean channel with built-in digital reverb --> Shure SM58 --> Garageband, no vsts.

[gwEm]

line 6 amp? i would take mules then. i agree with mdv's suggestions of crawlers, but the line 6 i'm sure has their usual selection of high gain models - whatever your opinion is on them