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shred dog

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« on: May 29, 2005, 12:57:42 AM »
hey guys i have a hamer centaura adler w/ maple fret board and i want a bridge humbucker with killer harmonics and lots of sustain for a gary moore/john sykes hard rockin blues tone i was thinkin about the EMERALD ?

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PhilKing

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« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2005, 09:19:34 AM »
I have a Nailbomb/trilogy set in my swamp ash/maple neck strat clone.  That gives a great sound, with lots of harmonics. I have an Emerald in the bridge of an LP and there are ton's of harmonics from it too, but it is more the sweet Thin Lizzy sound.

Actually, all of the BKP humbuckers let you bring out the harmonics.  I think it is the scatter wind that opens the pickup up and takes all that heavy mid dullness away.

Tim is working on a John Sykes style pickup at the minute, the Cold Sweat, perhaps this might work for you too.
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shred dog

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« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2005, 10:44:19 AM »
i read about the "cold sweat" sounds like it will be awesome!!!!!

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« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2005, 12:26:57 PM »
The Cold Sweat set are excellent.......I'm almost done with gig testing which I usually do over 3-4 months of gigging and recording. I had my ebony '70s Sykes LP Custom with me a both shows this weekend and she sounded awesome.......massive,massive tone and chunk without going hyper saturated and numetal on you.The tone is has a vintage edge-beautiful cleans-but tight enough in the bass to really kick with mids that cut like a knife through butter-no spike though!!
I'm hoping to have these available in @2 weeks :drink:
Tim
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