Cold Sweats + mahogany = classic thrash?

[rafe h]

hello,

I've done some searches on the forum and the consensus seems to be that the Cold Sweat set in mahogany sounds really good for classic thrash metal?

the guitar in this case is a current production Gibson Flying V.  the thrash bands I have in my mind are 80s-to-early 90s Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Testament, Annihilator, etc.

would the Cold Sweat set get me in the ballpark?

thanks,
Rafe

[James C]

I would go Miracle Man Bridge and Cold Sweat Neck for those bands, the MM is slightly thicker (IMO) and smoother.

But i used a CS set in a V for thrash and loved it so either set will get you in the right ballpark.

[Madsakre]

i have a painkiller in my v and i will never swap it

[asianaxeman]

Heard the cs brudge is good for dimebag tones, the neck is modern sounding for the tones you're after. You can't go wrong with hd calibrated set for those tones which are great because u will able to get fat dynamic leads in the style of Marty and skolnick, pk calibrated set is more aggressive with unreal tightness and clarity which you will buy later once you are addicted to bkp!

[Telerocker]

CS is known to work well in mahogany-setneck guitars. Maybe the Aftermath is an option too.

[ericsabbath]

all ceramic models would work, but the cold sweat wins the old school stuff, imo, specially exodus, early testament, pantera... but the painkiller is amazing for megadeth and annihilator, miracle man for metallica and slayer...

the ceramic nailbomb sounds like the perfect middle ground between all the other ceramic models
well... it's an overwound cold sweat, so it must be a winner too