Basswood and Nazgul pickups

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kyrthon

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Hi Everyone, I have a Sterling JP70 and want to replace the pickups and have been leaning toward the Nazgul/Sentient, but havent been able to find much on how the Nazgul sounds with Basswood. The guitar has a maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, floating tremolo, and I mainly play metal and progressive rock. If someone thinks another pickup would be better, please let me know. Thanks much in advance!
 
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Swyse said:
As for other pickups, I really enjoy the distortion in basswood for metal, however I feel that the nazgul/sentient set might be better for prog stuff.
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I have a basswood body LTD I've been looking to swap pups in, and keep landing on the SH-6 Distortion. I started with the Nazgul, but after listening to an exhaustive list of sound clips and doing a blind "taste test" back and forth with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3YzI3sd2WA which led to this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZYDYiOIuC8 I ruled out the Nazgul as the SH-6 seems to have better attack, more bite and an overall fuller sound.
 
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Good points and links, any thoughts on the Black Winters? I'm reading that they are like a more modern distortion.
 
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Keith Merrow's Black Winter demo was done on a Music Man JP.

 
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I would go for the Duncan Distortion in Basswood. It just seems to handle the slightly dead tones of the wood a little better.

Alternatively, EMGs can really punch in basswood.

I found basswood guitars are very hit and miss. Any two basswood guitars and any two pickups may have very very different results. Basswood is just a very inconsistent sounding wood in my opinion in that it varies wildly between instruments.
 
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jonsick said:
I would go for the Duncan Distortion in Basswood. It just seems to handle the slightly dead tones of the wood a little better.

Alternatively, EMGs can really punch in basswood.

I found basswood guitars are very hit and miss. Any two basswood guitars and any two pickups may have very very different results. Basswood is just a very inconsistent sounding wood in my opinion in that it varies wildly between instruments.
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I think that's more about the cost/quality of the guitar. I had 4 identical basswood guitars at one time, and one just had a bad piece. The other three were actually quite nice sounding. (They were very cheap guitars to begin with.)
 
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