gothic explorer need gothic pickups

[fr33man1]

Since the pots in my gothic explorer are coming to end I thought i'd buy some pickups aswell so it could get fully tweaked.

I'm in big metal mood so I think I'll go for some Machine head tone wise. I got emg on my esp eclipse and though its heavy for this I'm finding it chemical on cleans and melodic leadwork needed for this style of metal.

What could I use for some drop tuning with a grinding sound ? full madness with Cpig, c bomb, pkiller ?

[Roobubba]

Hmmm Explorer, Machine Head...? Miracle Man!

:)

[Antag]

The A-pig was mental in my Gothic V, so I imagine the C-pig would slay (but I've never tried one so can't say for sure).

Miracle Man would work well.

[fr33man1]

warpig seems cool. I have to admit I had a miracle man and didnt like it at all.  :( I did not feel the heaviness  it seems to be claimed for.  Well I never had a pkiller, warpig nor a cold sweat bridge in the modern range. Gonna pick one of those I think. I'd want it more cutting thant the stock 500. Cant add more clear as every bkp i had was clear and nice souding.  :P Just more chunky on palm muted riff and cutting.

[gwEm]

Epi or Gibson?

[fr33man1]

gibson gothic series I with gibson ceramic. i used to like them but they lack that rich detailed sound you get used to with bkp's.. :)

[gwEm]

gibson gothic series I with gibson ceramic. i used to like them but they lack that rich detailed sound you get used to with bkp's.. :)

cool - I have some Epi Gothic series, and they are all dark sounding guitars (I think due to a weird mahogany used) so I would have said something like Rebel Yell if it was an Epi under question.

[fr33man1]

yeah rebell yell work great for that but it did not cope well with my esp eclipse nor my les paul custom. Plus it was too vintage vibe for me so i'll stick to the modern range.

[gwEm]

yeah rebell yell work great for that but it did not cope well with my esp eclipse nor my les paul custom. Plus it was too vintage vibe for me so i'll stick to the modern range.

i think you are leaning towards a painkiller? the 500t is somewhere between cold sweat and painkiller in my opinion.

[Roobubba]

warpig seems cool. I have to admit I had a miracle man and didnt like it at all.  :( I did not feel the heaviness  it seems to be claimed for.  Well I never had a pkiller, warpig nor a cold sweat bridge in the modern range. Gonna pick one of those I think. I'd want it more cutting thant the stock 500. Cant add more clear as every bkp i had was clear and nice souding.  :P Just more chunky on palm muted riff and cutting.

I'm surprised. My miracle man (okay, the MM I had in my ibanez which is now in my custom baritone multiscale) is absolutely crushing. Brutally heavy, chunky - ideal for palm muting (I do this a lot; well, pinky muting at least). Maybe the C-Pig is what you seek for this guitar :)

[fr33man1]

Yeah I had the MM in my les paul custom in drop C, maybe because of old stock gibson pots it was too smooth and so quiet.  I truly was like uh thats the miracle ?

Well I never had to go for a warpig and I'm finding the output a bit to insane. Would the sweat be usable for various stuff in standard tuning aswell ?

[DimeZakk]

There must have been something wrong with either your old Miracle Man or your pots (maybe it was the Les Paul Custom, my miracle man sounded strange in my buddys LPC too) but I have a miracle man set in my Gibson Gothic Explorer and it is just 1:1 THE machine head tone through my peavey 6505 and with a TS in front!!!

The Miracle man just excells for this kind of low tuned metal in my Gothic EX (Machine Head, In Flames, As I lay Dying). It's really suprising but the Gothic with MM sounds more like Machine Head than my Gibson Flying V with EMG (which was intended as my *Machine Head* guitar^^)

[fr33man1]

ok ill go for a miracle man/cold sweat set with black n red coils, always fond of the voodoo look but not of the ash body.  :P pics when it happens ;).

[Transcend]

ill also add that if you didnt find the MM aggressive enough then the CS wont be anywhere near as aggressive as your MM was.

i think your MM/guitar combo was off.

I had the quiet and tame problem with a NB in my RG then i realised it had 25k pots rather than 500k

[fr33man1]

Finally went for a bargain cold sweat set. I liked the neck unit on mahogany guitars, plus I never had this one on bridge. Real reason is I'm short on cash and bkp addict (for the cash thanks to some money I did not receive yet but its another story..) so I'll review that as it sits on my axe.

Still remains the painkiller and miracle man to test out. Warpig is too insane for me but well never say never eh.  :)