80's sounding Neck PUP

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whitehamster

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Hi mates, i've been using my TB-4 on my basswood Jackson guitar for a week now, which i had bought on your advice about an 80's sounding pickup, and it totally rocks! Thanks for the advices. Now i'm %100 percent sure that i can count on you guys.

I was planning filling the neck position with a matching block of wood but i just happen to find some money enough to have any pickup i like.

Now i want a neck pickup that has an open sound, a clanging sound ( a chingling sound a ringing sound whatever you call it)

A friend of mine said using a Screaming Demon as neck pup will do it but i'd like to read your advices better. Also i've heard Suhr Aldrich pickups were really good but i'm just not sure if they will do good in a basswood body (plus suhr pups dont have bright green color =))

Another thing in my mind is filling the neck pickup cavity with a matching wood and carving it to place a JB Junior with an angle so the guitar pickups will look like '' || / '' i guess it will look more like 80's fashion and higher notes will have a more open sound but i can only guess now at that point.

So what can you suggest to me? thanks for help
 
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The Jazz is the JB's intended partner. It definately clangs through the right rig.
 
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Do you mean a 80ties metal band ballad clean picking intro?

Or some police siren like neck pickup solo sounds that made you want congress to pass a law limit of one pickup per HM guitar?
 
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uOpt you are absolutely right but having a nice amount of spare money i cant stand the idea of having a green or pink colored neck with pink or purple knobs and good news DiMarzio has knobs that goes to 11!! hehe soo spinal tap

i think i'm at a point between SH-2n Jazz and SH-12 demon. Which one to pick for a 24fret rosewood bolt on neck basswood guitar for an open clanging sound or the sound has that 80's feeling to describe correctly?
 
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Nobody used a neck pup in the 80's. There is no 80's neck pup sound. Most people didn't even have a neck pup. Maybe a DiMarzio single coil?!?!?!? Put a JB in the bridge and roll the volume down or stomp on the fuzz and turn it off - that's 80's neck sound.
 
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hehe yes that makes a lot of sense, that was my plan before decidind to color up my guitar in a Jason Becker or Vai fashion, i mean filling or covering up the neck pickup cavity

so i'm changing my question SH2n or SH12 for a clanging sound for neck pickup of a 24fret rosewood bolt-on neck basswood guitar?

i have one for Jazz on this topic and one for demon from another topic.
 
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ya i agree with aceman i think one of the only people to use the neck pickup in the 80's was slash. but if ur guiar has a tone control for the bridge pickup, just roll that off. (thats another thing people did in the 80's)
 
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A Jazz should be exactly what you want. Oh, and BTW Eddie Van Halen used neck pup in Hot For Teacher, and I'm pretty sure that Hetfield used it too.
 
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not to mention Jason Becker - Marty Friedman duo thanks guys i guess i'll buy a Jazz
i've just asked for a black/pink one or else black/green waiting for me
 
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uOpt said:
Or some police siren-like neck pickup solo sounds that make you want congress to pass a law limit of one pickup per HM guitar?
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Very good! You've outdone yourself today. You need to get more of this kind of humor in your posts.
 
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whitehamster said:
uOpt you are absolutely right but having a nice amount of spare money i cant stand the idea of having a green or pink colored neck with pink or purple knobs and good news DiMarzio has knobs that goes to 11!! hehe soo spinal tap

i think i'm at a point between SH-2n Jazz and SH-12 demon. Which one to pick for a 24fret rosewood bolt on neck basswood guitar for an open clanging sound or the sound has that 80's feeling to describe correctly?
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I have a pair of purple knobs that go to 11!!!
 
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The only 80's neck pickup tone I could think of was Slash's "Sweet Child O' Mine". Alnico Pro II. :1:

edit....even that has some tone knob cutting the highs.
 
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I'm with Aceman, 80's neck pickup?
Sorry, I don't understand. One pickup, one volume, one whammy bar :)
 
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I had a Full Shred neck pickup in a Jackson RR and it was as 80's as legwarmers.

Pour some sugar on me,
Hunter
 
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... I used neck pups in the '80s... sometimes EMG SAs or whatever the stock ones were on the particular guitar I was using. I even routed out one of my Barettas and put a Full Shred pup in the neck w/ a push-pull pot to switch 'em. George Lynch also used the neck pup in his Kamikazes - Duncan SSL-1. Listen to the live solo on 'Beast from the East' where he does the sweep/tapping licks.
 
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Iron Horse said:
A Jazz should be exactly what you want. Oh, and BTW Eddie Van Halen used neck pup in Hot For Teacher, and I'm pretty sure that Hetfield used it too.
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hetfield played on Hot For Teacher?




:biglaugh: sorry, couldn't resist lol

but seriously, im kinda with aceman. the only 80's neck tones i think of are Slash and Lynch. maybe SOME slow metallica - which i think was single coil emg's anyway.

and now i just re-read where you said not really lookin for 80's neck tone....ok. my fault. its late and i drink - get off my back! i'll quit when i want! jk. ive heard for that piano-ish tone, that the Demon in the neck really pulls that off ?? someone please correct me if im wrong. im almost sure ive heard or read that its can be almost piano or violin sounding - i.e. very fluid. if you're trying to match up with a JB the ole standard is the jazz but hey, shake it up a little. id say get crazy and get the Demon.
 
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