EVH Striped Series Bridge

[Chistopher]

I've got an EVH Striped Series that basically has a Custom Custom bridge. I tried to put a Super D in the bridge, but it's too tall for the wood mount pickup.

Any ideas for what should go in there? I'm looking for something super versatile, and warm.

Maybe DMZ Al Dimeola or Bluesbucker? Mayhaps a Brobucker?

 

[Aceman]

A Custom Custom or a 78

 

[Seashore]

Bare Knuckle Warpig? I put a ceramic in mine and have it on a blower switch for maximum teeth, but it's warm and toasty with 500k pots.

 

[Chistopher]

A Custom Custom or a 78

I suppose those are the usual suspects, but I'm going for something different. My Wolfgang does those sounds just about perfectly already.

 

[Aceman]

P-Rails with a cap for warmth.

 

[beaubrummels]

I suppose those are the usual suspects, but I'm going for something different. My Wolfgang does those sounds just about perfectly already.

Do you have it wired for either coil and series / parallel coils? A CC does all those stellar. That's about as versatile as you can get. The others you mentioned won't get there.

Black Winter would be the other that is versatile (when split slug/screw, series/parallel) and has some warmth in shredsticks IME

I don't find the Brobucker versatile. It does what it does very well, but that's it.

StagMag, Fuglybucker or a Nokie Edwards with max split/series/parallel all would be super versatile.

 

[Mincer]

I say wait for the new Black Winter Rails.

 

[ErikH]

It’s a shred machine. Slap a Perpetual Burn in there.

 

[Chistopher]

I'm not planning on doing anything more than a single volume knob. So I guess I'm not looking for a versatile pickup, so much as a pickup that will allow me to be versatile.
So maybe 78, Black Winter, War Pig, Perpetual Burn, or some 5th pickup. I'd be fine being a test bunny for the Black Winter Rails though

 

[Chistopher]

Black Winter as it exists now is too tall. So that one is out of the running.

 

[ErikH]

59/Custom Hybrid should be on that list too.

 

[orpheo]

I'd go with a Dimarzio EVO but that pickup is rapidly becoming one of my favorites of all time.

 

[Chistopher]

I've also heard big things of the Gravity Storm. Ill look into both of those.

What's an Evo versus an Evo 2?

 

[Bill Dennis]

I've got an EVH Striped Series that basically has a Custom Custom bridge. I tried to put a Super D in the bridge, but it's too tall for the wood mount pickup.

Any ideas for what should go in there? I'm looking for something super versatile, and warm.

Maybe DMZ Al Dimeola or Bluesbucker? Mayhaps a Brobucker?

Its a single humbucker guitar. Versatility is not really what it does.... Put a push pull pot in to switch to parallel mode is about the best your going to get.

 

[Chistopher]

I feel that the versatility of a single humbucker guitar is pretty overlooked. Except for a few techniques, such as palm muting, you can get more tones from altering your pick attack and location than you can by using switches and knobs but not changing your technique.

 

[beaubrummels]

I feel that the versatility of a single humbucker guitar is pretty overlooked. Except for a few techniques, such as palm muting, you can get more tones from altering your pick attack and location than you can by using switches and knobs but not changing your technique.

^ This for me, even with just a simple Duncan Distortion, worked great in two Melody Makers I have. Playing by the neck gave me a typical humbucker neck tone, playing by the bridge gave me metal, playing in the middle gave me hard rock, playing bare finger vs thick pick vs thin pick vs pointed pick vs rounded pick all gave me different tones that were usable.

 

[Chistopher]

I've decided upon the Al Di Meola. It's a Custom Shop only pickup, so it's going to take a while. But it's been said to sound like if a 36th Anniversary and a Tone Zone had a kid and it looked a lot like the mailman (Super D)

 

[Artie]

It’s a shred machine. Slap a Perpetual Burn in there.

You can't do better. Love that pup, and I'm not a "metal" guy.

 

[Driver Blues]

What exactly is the Al Di Meola, an underworld super distortion with an alnico v?

 

[Chistopher]

I don't exactly know, there's not a lot of documentation on it available. There are a few different theories, but the facts are that it was designed for ADM while his main guitar had a Super Distortion, and it would be reasonable to assume he asked for a more dynamic Super D. That's speculation though.