Nice! So, if I wanted to order something custom, I'd just have to make my order through an email instead of the website's checkout area? Just give info and credit card details in the email?
By the way, what you are describing the neck pickup like sounds PERFECT to me. I want a hot, clear, cutting shred pickup, and it's a huge plus that you said it sounds great tapped. When tapped, can it do really clean clean well or does it breakup a bit because of still a high output? Also, you got me considering the warpig ceramic... would you say it's tighter? I always put off the regular warpig because I heard it had a lot of bass... and I don't want that... I want it to be tight and balanced, having some good aggressive mids and crunch...
Sorry for the questions. just... I feel bad if I keep bothering tim with questions like this, and up until now I was considering either a NB/CS set or a MM/CS set and your post about your custom winds have got me really interested! :?
Let me know what you think when you get a chance :)
Well the custom thing caught me by surprise...basically when I emailed Tim and told him what I want, he told me to put exactly what I want in the comments box. What really surprised me is that there was no extra charge for the Ceramic bridge or the custom wound neck. When I sent the order through and subsequently emailed him to insure that he got the instructions, he said he fully understood what I want and was going to wind the custom neck based on what I asked. In short, I said I wanted the power of the Warpig neck (to match the bridge) but I wanted that cut and clarity that the Cold Sweat neck has...and that is EXACTLY what this pickup has. Before this, the Cold Sweat neck was my favorite neck pickup...this custom warpig neck is my new favorite! To be fair, the CS neck I have is in a Les Paul Studio and it's not tapped though.
Actually the neck tapped sounds incredible, and does cleans extremely well. That's the thing that surprised me the most about this set...I expected sheer power from the Ceramic 'Pig in the bridge (which I got), but I did not expect the neck to sound as good as it does clean while in humbucker mode and tapped. I just spent three hours working on my lessons this week (major 7th arpeggios) and I haven't moved the pickup switch off of position 2 (that's the neck tapped)...it sounds amazing! And it definitely does not break up through my Mesa in the clean and "slightly" overdriven channels when it's tapped. I believe this has to do with cutting the power in half in the tapped position.
You're tastes in pickups sounds IDENTICAL to mine! My first choice of pickups for the Ibanez were the Nailbomb bridge and Cold Sweat neck...and I actually have the MM bridge/CS neck in my Les Paul Studio.
As far as the Ceramic Warpig, the only thing I can liken it to (as I don't have the Alnico Warpig bridge...yet) is an EMG 81 running on two 9v batteries...except this one has more character and just sounds better. Also, based on the 5 way switch, the 3rd position is the neck tapped and bridge tapped so I get great funk tones...which is quite a surprise for a guitar that is soon to become my metal guitar!
To be fair though, I'm sure the Nailbomb or an Alnico Warpig in the bridge would theoretically be more versatile, but this guitar has a five way switch and I can get a ton of tones with the way the pickups are wired. Just remember to order 4 conductor wiring with whatever you get so you can tap them.
