Hey guys,
I have an idea for the pups I want on my custom axe, but there are a lot of people here with much more experience and knowledge on the subject, so I'm going to run it by you all first.
I'm after tones that are clear, defined and tight as hell, so here are the specs of the build:
Swamp Ash body with a figured maple cap.
Rock Maple set-neck.
Ebony fretboard.
27" scale.
Hipshot fixed bridge.
Graphtech Acoustiphonic Piezo system.
I am having a coil-tap option on the pups, so it should be a very versatile instrument.
I want a tight, aggressive bridge pup which will give me clarity and nice definition, so I was thinking of staying with my current weapon of choice: The Aftermath. Although I did play with the idea of a Painkiller. Think Periphery / Red Seas Fire / Dream Theater for a kind of ball-park rhythm guitar sound.
For the neck, I wanted something that would give me that glass-bottle (for want of a better description) tone that you hear from a lot of Strats, like Knopfler / Hendrix in the cleans, hence the coil tapping, but also be able to hit it hard like a Petrucci kind of tone for full-humbucking leads. So I was thinking along the lines of a Cold Sweat. I'm not sure what else would give me that really kind of glassy clean sound when coil tapped?
Any thoughts?
