Has anyone been able to directly compare the Cold Sweat with the Seymour Duncan Distortion? I have a Cold Sweat and really like it (can't believe how much gain you can pile on this guy and he just eats it up). I just find it could use just a wee more mids. I'm kind of looking for that half-way between the Holydiver and the Cold Sweat. I've never tried the Distortion, and while I don't plan on veering away from the clarity of BKP, I'm curious on how it sounds and compares.
Yes had a distortion and a cold sweat in the same guitar and many other pups for that matter!
The Distortion is more like the painkiller. The distortion is more compressed and muddy/thuddy the painkiller grinds, cuts has power but is crystal clear. Much much better for any application IMO.
Don't rule out the juggernaut either. That's like a 'tighter' modern metal holy diver. People need to get away from this just being a modern metal/djent pickup it's worthy of being taken seriously for hard rock/shred/metal applications too.
Not too much experience with miracle man but from the little I've played it, read and worked out the miracle man is like a slightly more powerful cold sweat with more lo mids. MASSIVE simplification but it's literally the kind of difference between Sykes and BLS.
Hope this helps.
