Pickup advice Caparison FKV

[apanboll]

Hi,

I have several guitars with bkps and they are all sweet

Caparison Horus Yellow Sands: BKP HD/DiMarzio Chopper
Caparison Horus Deep Sea: BKP NB/DiMarzio FT2
Caparison Dellinger II Pro Hgs: BKP PK/BKP PK

For this guitar I'm very confused on which one to choose
I'm looking for a good lead (neo-classic) sound a la yngwie.
(I know Yngwie has a strat with stacked sc)
The guitar is mahogny neck-through, it's a very unique sound with a lot resonans and mids. The bass respons is very low for a mahogny.
Which ones do you suggest?

The guitar:

[Slartibartfarst42]

I'm usually trying to get a humbucker tone from a single coil; I've never heard of anyone trying to do it the other way around. To be honest, I have no immediate idea but I'll take a punt at a Painkiller bridge and VHII neck. It may well be wrong but you never know and it will get the ball rolling  :D

[ericsabbath]

i was gonna say PK as well, but as you already have that, Iyou could give something else a try
rebel yells or cold sweats should sound great

great looking guitar, by the way
never seen a caparison V before

[Slartibartfarst42]

i was gonna say PK as well, but as you already have that, Iyou could give something else a try
rebel yells or cold sweats should sound great

great looking guitar, by the way
never seen a caparison V before

Looks like it wasn't such a bad guess after all! Rebel Yells and Cold sweats are certainly bright and will cut through the mahogany no problem but whether that will make them 'single coil' is a different issue. I've never tried a Rebel Yell but having owned a Cold Sweat, I can say it always retained a distinctly humbucker sound to it and that was even in a maple neck-thru so I imagine it will sound even thicker in mahogany. It was the occasional references to 'spikey upper mids' and 'ice-picky' that made me think the Painkiller would work and I'm sure I read somewhere that the neck VHII had a bit of a single coil feel to it but I may be wrong in that.

[richard]

The RY sounds great with a coil split. Best of both worlds.

[Philly Q]

You could consider the Stockholm and/or Mississippi Queen if you really do want a single-coil sound.

Cool looking guitar!  Very metal but still quite elegant and tasteful.

[Kiichi]

You could consider the Stockholm and/or Mississippi Queen if you really do want a single-coil sound.

Thing to concider with those is that the Stockholm bridge does really sound like the diagramm, which means rather heavy on the lows, but never sounding dull or overly dark, just full on raw growl, with great attack and high presense, but you always know that the spotlight is on the lower end of the scale, which I love about it. Got one recently and hope to get a review out in the next few days (still looking into adding sound clips).
If you wanne go for something lighter on the bass either the MQ (only know the neck in person) which is great and can go more heavy than you would think or you could ask for a HBs supermassive (got a neck of that too, will come in the same review as the SH).

If you are concerned about the MQ possibly not going heavy enough I can only say that I am utterly impressed by the lead sound I am getting outa my new neck mahattan (again, review shortly) in a semihollow mahahony axe. Great rounded natural growling going on, very musically. If I take some lows out I can even riff on it with on my "old school metal" amp setting. Basecally meaning that as all BKPs they can go waaaaaayyy higher gain than you would think.

[darkbluemurder]

If the guitar does not have too much bass I would choose the Cold Sweat over the Rebel Yell. For the neck spot I think the Cold Sweat neck is the one.

I have listened to Yngwie's 80s albums quite a lot in the last few months, and whenever he plays heavy riffs on the bridge pickup, my thoughts were almost immediately "Nailbomb". That would also fit with the not too bassy basic tone of the guitar.

Cheers Stephan

[apanboll]

Thanks for the feedback. I think I'm going for the coldsweats.

I just have one more question.
I want to swap the neck pickup to a SD YJM fury in my horus. There are a holy diver in the bridge.
Does the YJM Fury have too low output compared to the holy diver?