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Tuttermuts

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A good Bk pickup for a bright 7 string guitar.
« on: September 12, 2013, 04:10:32 PM »
Hello people

I'm currently looking into Bk pickups for my sevenstring. You can see her here:
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/extended-range-guitars/95779-planning-out-my-fanned-7-string-just-some-speculations-so-far.html
(the specs in the first post don't count, changed a lot as we went allong)

Basicly it are poplar wings with a laminated neck of maple and mahogany. Ebony fretboard and pernambucco for topping.
I'm currently using dimarzios. A D-sonic and an air norton. Air norton is somewhat ok. But the D-sonic sounds kind of thin.
My guess is that it has to do with the Poplar wings and stainless steel frets, they probably brighten things up a lot. (Damnit Jim, I'm a player not a builder)
I'm not sure what to do here, I was thinking of using the warpigs to add some bass and body...but maybe that's overdoing it. I don't want to sacrifice the high registers since I do use those quite a bit in both clean and distortion territories.
I play all kinds of stuff, going from metal to country clean, most important to me are leads and cleans, I do wander into extreme metal genres every now and then but it's not my main thing at this time.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Sarkasis

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Re: A good Bk pickup for a bright 7 string guitar.
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2013, 04:26:52 PM »
I'd suggest a Holydiver bridge. If you mostly play leads and cleans, the Warpig may not hit the spot for you, since it's pretty dense and driven sounding for clean work.