Hey all,
I just got notification that my new Aftermath pickup, with Black cover and nickel pole screws, sort legs and 2-conductor cable, is in the postal mail from Tim & co, and I'm nervous and excited about it at the same time.
For the last 15 years, I have tried pickup after pickup and I keep coming back to the Duncan Distortion SH6. I even tried the Painkiller and was horrified and within 30 minutes I put the SH6 back into my black flying V.
I want to hear your opinions of what I'm to expect! I'm hoping that the Aftermath will sound fatter that the Sh6, but just as chunky Thrash pick attack (eg: Exodus/Scott Ian) and clear and aggressive with awesome mid growl (like Slayer before the EMG period). I hope its a great Thrash Metal humbucker.
The guitar it's going to is custom made Grubisa black Flying V with a 'Dean' headstock,body and neck is all Brazilian Mahogany body and neck, Ebony frett board, 24 frets, setneck/string through body, Tonepros bridge, Sperzal locking tuners. SD Duncan Distortion SH6 in the Bridge and Sh1 '59 in the neck. I asked Tim about the neck and suggested the Riff raff, so if I love the Aftermath, I'll order it too.
I play straight through a Marshal JCM 2000 TSL100 (no effects or EQ's for Distortion, on clean channel there is chorus)
I play in the Australian Thrash Metal band 'DARK ORDER', and you can hear the different pickups I recorded the rhythm sounds for the last three albums, '5000 Years of Violence' is Sh6 through JCM 900 dual reverb, 'The Violence continuum' is a Dimarzio Megadrive through a JCM 200 DSL 100, and the new album 'Cold war of the condor' is a Seymour Duncan Parrallel axis Disortion PATB2B through my current rig of the TSL100 JCM 2000.
Just go to
www.myspace.com/darkorder to listen to songs from all three albums.
The pickups I've tried are: Duncan Custom, JB, Dimebucker, Screamin Deamon, The Invader, Parrallel Axis TB I, Parrallel Axis PATB2B Distortion, Dimarzio SD, Megadrive, D Sonic, D Activator, D Activator X, X2N, Bill Lawrence XL500
