mettalic tone but brill cleans?

[daveirl1]

My friend has an epi explorer (mahogony) which he wants bkps in after hearing mine in my tele, he wants a mettalica (early) kind of tone but he really wants good cleans, anyone know which pickups would suit this best?

Sorry for the grammer my heads in bits.

[Dakine]

Custom Warpig

Thread over :)  :twisted:

[Sifu Ben]

Does the custom warpig set have an alnico neck? It's very hard to get truly good cleans from a super hot ceramic pickup (although the advantage is it doesn't sound weedy when split, which could be another option), so you may want to have a very hot bridge and then switch to the neck for cleans
 HOWEVER, if your wanting to play Metallica then chances are you never play truly clean anyway, a little chorus and delay will take off those brittle edges nicely.

[genocidal tendencies]

Weedy when split? You've never used a warpig, have you?

I doubt the neck is ceramic, tim doesn't usually wind ceramic neck pups as far as I know.

[MDV]

Painkiller necks ceramic.

[Sifu Ben]

Genocidal Tendencies, learn to read!!!!!!!!

(although the advantage is it DOESN'T sound weedy when split, which could be another option)

[genocidal tendencies]

Sifu Ben, learn to quote in context!!!!!!! You were saying the advantage of a ceramic pickup is it doesn't sound weedy when split, and basic warpigs aren't ceramic and they sure as hell don't sound weedy when split.

[Dakine]

WOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thought had logged into the wrong forum for min. then.

Cannot see ANYWHERE that Ben qoutes Standard Warpig?

For ORIGINAL poster asking a question;
I have both sets of Warpigs, Standard and Custom.
The Custom has a Ceramic Bridge only. I have this in a Gibson Explorer and it slays old skool Metallica (James should join the Cornish Army and stop paying for batteries :)). Indeed the neck pickup (in calibrated set) is not ceramic. I find (in this Custom set) I can clean it up qoute nicely.

In the Standard set (again I have a calibrated set) the Warpig is more of a beast to tame. There is more of EQ (read leash/Bullwhip) needed to tame em and IMO they are not the thing for sparkly cleans. But then why would you want a Warpig for that and also Metallica don't exactly go hand in hand with sparkly cleans. Remember they have beacoup cash and gear to play with also and sound engineers yadda yadda.

I said to Tim 'Tim, I have just bought a Gibson Explorer so Metallica came to mind, what do you think?', Tim say's 'Custom Warpig will slay it'. Nuff said.

[Sifu Ben]

indeed, a typical average 8-10 Kohm humbucker sounds weedy split, being my point  :roll:

[daveirl1]

thanks lads, just told him about this now, one more question though can you get the warpig with the traditional crome covered pups?

[FELINEGUITARS]

Yes you can , but you may want the double screwhead polepiece option so that it has the proper sound without looking industrial