Coma
Well-known member
Hiya, long time visitor, first time poster.
Anyway, here's the story:
For about two years, I've been using a pair of SD Invaders in my LP. Now, great tone and all, I know (gotta love that bass response), but growing frustrated with their crappy clean tone, and the fact that leads were completely blurred out everytime I was rehersing with my band, I decided to switch to something a litte bit treblier (is that even a word?).
So I finally decided on the Pearly Gates in the neck (with coil tap), and the SH-5 Custom in the bridge.
I have now played them for a week, and I must say, that I'm not quite satisfied. The Pearly gates is working just fine (granted, the distorted tone is not really what I'm looking for, but thta clean sound when its switched to single coil mode is sweeter than a choir of angels :newangel: ).
The SH-5, however, sounds like somebody took the Invader and chopped its balls off! While it does retain note-for note clarity better than the Invader (IE, when a power chord is strummed, you can actually hear all the different notes being played quite clearly) and the lead tone (soloing) cuts through better as well, there's just no "Ooomph!" in the sound. The tone is WAAAAAAY too vintage for me, and chords just don't have that crunchy, tearrrrrrring tiger-growling-sound anymore.
And the output level is just not enough. With the invader, I could run my distortion pedal (Boss MetalZone) with the dist knob just below 50% (12 o'clock), and still, it would pick up and respond to tapping and pinch harmonics like there was no tomorrow. The Custom handles this quite poorly if I may say so, it just can't seem to pick it up unless I turn up so much distortion that the whole thing just turns into fuzz (and not the cool stoner rock kind, just the covering-up-my-lack-of-skills-with-too-much-dist-kind).
On the plus side, it does sound a whole heap better than the Invader ever did clean, but seeing as how I've got that PG tapped now, that's not really such an important factor anymore.
So, my point is (for those of you who actually read through all that), I need another bridge pickup!!! And basically, I'm lloking for something along the lines of the Invader's nice chugging chord sound, bit with better clarity and punch-through lead tone (IE, high strings, if that made sense).
My gear
Gibson LP Gothic with PG in the Neck and SH-5 in the Bridge
Boss MetalZone
Laney GC 80 (1x10 SS combo amp from '95, nothing real fancy)
Line 6 Guitarport
I mostly play Thrash, Hard Rock and Stoner/Sludge (think Megadeth, Metallica, Sepultura, Coroner, Pantera, Down, Corrosion of Conformity, Alice In Chains, Guns N' Roses, Skid Row, Ugly Kid Joe, Kyuss, Monster Magnet) and some blues and Jazz (that's what the PG is there for
)
Pretty, pretty please, with sugar on top and a cherry, respond, and I'll send you e-milk & cookies...
Anyway, here's the story:
For about two years, I've been using a pair of SD Invaders in my LP. Now, great tone and all, I know (gotta love that bass response), but growing frustrated with their crappy clean tone, and the fact that leads were completely blurred out everytime I was rehersing with my band, I decided to switch to something a litte bit treblier (is that even a word?).
So I finally decided on the Pearly Gates in the neck (with coil tap), and the SH-5 Custom in the bridge.
I have now played them for a week, and I must say, that I'm not quite satisfied. The Pearly gates is working just fine (granted, the distorted tone is not really what I'm looking for, but thta clean sound when its switched to single coil mode is sweeter than a choir of angels :newangel: ).
The SH-5, however, sounds like somebody took the Invader and chopped its balls off! While it does retain note-for note clarity better than the Invader (IE, when a power chord is strummed, you can actually hear all the different notes being played quite clearly) and the lead tone (soloing) cuts through better as well, there's just no "Ooomph!" in the sound. The tone is WAAAAAAY too vintage for me, and chords just don't have that crunchy, tearrrrrrring tiger-growling-sound anymore.
And the output level is just not enough. With the invader, I could run my distortion pedal (Boss MetalZone) with the dist knob just below 50% (12 o'clock), and still, it would pick up and respond to tapping and pinch harmonics like there was no tomorrow. The Custom handles this quite poorly if I may say so, it just can't seem to pick it up unless I turn up so much distortion that the whole thing just turns into fuzz (and not the cool stoner rock kind, just the covering-up-my-lack-of-skills-with-too-much-dist-kind).
On the plus side, it does sound a whole heap better than the Invader ever did clean, but seeing as how I've got that PG tapped now, that's not really such an important factor anymore.
So, my point is (for those of you who actually read through all that), I need another bridge pickup!!! And basically, I'm lloking for something along the lines of the Invader's nice chugging chord sound, bit with better clarity and punch-through lead tone (IE, high strings, if that made sense).
My gear
Gibson LP Gothic with PG in the Neck and SH-5 in the Bridge
Boss MetalZone
Laney GC 80 (1x10 SS combo amp from '95, nothing real fancy)
Line 6 Guitarport
I mostly play Thrash, Hard Rock and Stoner/Sludge (think Megadeth, Metallica, Sepultura, Coroner, Pantera, Down, Corrosion of Conformity, Alice In Chains, Guns N' Roses, Skid Row, Ugly Kid Joe, Kyuss, Monster Magnet) and some blues and Jazz (that's what the PG is there for
)Pretty, pretty please, with sugar on top and a cherry, respond, and I'll send you e-milk & cookies...
