Liquifire vs Cold Sweat Neck?

[Cammi]

I would have originally posted this in one of my other threads, but I thought it may not be seen by as many people, and I kind of wanted to specialize in this topic specificly.

I'm upgrading my Crunch Lab/Liquifire, and I wanted to know how the Cold Sweat compares to the Liquifire? I just don't know whether to keep my Liquifire or upgrade it. I kind of want to hear a side by side written (not an essay, dw haha. I know you all have lives) comparison, rather than just hearing the usual 'The Coldsweat is fluid and sweeps very well'.

It would be extremely greatly appreciated if anyone could help me on this.

Thanks   :D

[darkbluemurder]

Don't know - never played the Liquifire.

[Cammi]

Don't know - never played the Liquifire.

Such a helpful comment lol :P

[darkbluemurder]

Don't know - never played the Liquifire.

Such a helpful comment lol :P

I can tell you things about the Cold Sweat - I have it in two different guitars and played it in a third one. On the Liquifire here is an educated guess - before JP went to the Liquifire he used a neck pickup that was similar to the DiMarzio Air Norton - a quite powerful pickup with a DC resistance of 12k. Without ever having had a Liquifire I would guess that the Liquifire is a bit less hot than the Air Norton but not much. Hence I would expect the Cold Sweat to have even less output and to be clearer and cleaner.

Is that more helpful?

Cheers Stephan

[Cammi]

How are the mids? I like my neck pickups to have good mids, which the liquifire does, but it's hard judging the specs off the website, as the Cold Sweat portrays the bridge as quite scooped.

Cheers

[darkbluemurder]

I can personally assure you that the Cold Sweat bridge is not scooped in the mids. It does not have as much low mids as the Miracle Man or Holydiver but it's not scooped. In the high mids it is even strong.

The Cold Sweat neck has good mids - not overbearing but not scooped either. A higher output pickup like the Air Norton would probably have more mids when used in the neck position.

To which bridge pickup are you going to pair it to - the Crunchlab?

Cheers Stephan

EDIT: I voted for the Cold Sweat neck, simply for the reason that I liked any BKP better than almost any DiMarzios I played. The only DiMarzio pickups I like are the Area Strat models, the Air Norton for the bridge position and the BluesBucker for the neck position. I personally do not care for their higher output humbuckers - they all sound too nasal and fizzy to me.

[Cammi]

The Holy Diver :) I've also been considering the Nailbomb as well. I have a good month to decide, so I'm just finding out everything I can

[Philly Q]

I suspect you're not going to find many people who have experience of both the Cold Sweat and the Liquifire.

I don't get the impression many people in the UK buy DiMarzios as replacement pickups (perhaps especially on this forum!), plus the Liquifire is a new model.... so probably the only people familiar with it will be owners of EB/MM Petrucci signature guitars.  And there won't be many of those.

[Kiichi]

I am one of the ones who has only played the LF (as stated in the other thread I go both and love them).
As also stated there I would like better ones too.

If you are in the UK I would say just order a CS neck, try it and if you dont like it, send it back. That way you know...and can tell me about it^^

[Elessar [Sly]]

I have a cold sweat in the neck of my Ibanez S series. It is by far one of the best pup sounds I have heard, sounds great clean and nice when distorted. Never played the Liquifire though.