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Drewmetal

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Pickups for horizon metal.
« on: January 02, 2011, 04:10:25 PM »
Hey everyone this is my first post on BKP how you all doing?

just recently bought a ESP horizon NT-ii, Mahogany sides maple top. im in love.........

Being a die hard BKP fan was looking at switching out the Duncans for some BKP's.

Guitars set up it full D. 11-52's

I play melodic death metal (at the gates dark, tranquility, carcass) and power metal/classic metal (Iced earth, judas priest, Hibria, symphony x)

My current guitar is a PRS Standard Satin 22 which came with PRS Dragon 2's, which i found muddy in an all mahogany guitar with a rosewood fretboard So I Switched the bridge for a miracle man. The MM  gives me a ton of cut, power and sounds amazing, love it! Put the mule in the neck and the cleans are phenomenal!!!

Any suggestions on pickups for my styling? i was contemplating the painkiller for serious shred leads and clarity of rhythm  and finding a nice clean/crunch pickup for the neck for creamy clean guitar tones and for sweep arpeggio clarity.


haha and sorry i do go on a bit

Drew
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Nolly

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Re: Pickups for horizon metal.
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2011, 04:28:20 PM »
Yes, the Painkiller would be a great pickup to give you a contrasting sound to the MM - instead of being low-mid focussed like the MM, the PK has much more aggressive upper midrange and has a fantastic crunchy character when palm muting.
You seem to be happy to use lower output neck pickups, so I would highly recommend the VHII neck for what you've described - it's smooth but has excellent definition both clean and under gain.
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ShredHeadJHJ

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Re: Pickups for horizon metal.
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2011, 06:43:49 PM »
Damn, I wish I could try some more of these BKP's, but none of the n00bs around here even know what they are.
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Drewmetal

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Re: Pickups for horizon metal.
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 12:42:07 AM »
Quote from: Nolly on January 02, 2011, 04:28:20 PM
Yes, the Painkiller would be a great pickup to give you a contrasting sound to the MM - instead of being low-mid focussed like the MM, the PK has much more aggressive upper midrange and has a fantastic crunchy character when palm muting.
You seem to be happy to use lower output neck pickups, so I would highly recommend the VHII neck for what you've described - it's smooth but has excellent definition both clean and under gain.

Cool thanks very much man!
If i wanted to go slightly hotter on the neck pickup whats a good bet?
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