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Cazmarzak

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I got a Full Shred from a guy who took it out of an old Kramer Night swan. This pickup isn't anything like the tone chart suggested. The tone chart said it had lots of highs and I put it in my guitar and it was very warm and smooth sounding.

Any one else have this sound from a Full Shred, If I had known that it was gonna sound like that, I would have tried one out a long time ago.
 
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It really depends on the guitar it goes into and what amp you're using. The Full Shred can have very different sounds depending on the Pickup height.

I like my Full Shred to have a bit of bite, but not too much top end. But if I was going for a smoother sound I would lower mine a little
 
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Thanks! The thing is that tone chart is way off though, it looked like the Full Shred had nothing but high to it. It was aan alder body with a maple bolt on neck with a rosewood board and my amp is a Marshall DSl 50 by the way. Thanks again!
 
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Depends on what type of tones you are looking for, and the natural sound of the guitar to begin with (what you are looking to change/emphasize)
 
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Well I'm lookin for a good strong metal tone. I want a solid bridge pickup that doesn't muddy up and has good highs so it has some more snap to it and a lil less growl ya know? And the Jazz is goin in no matter what for the clean tones and I got a friend who says you could call it the Metal too. But yeah I'm mostly focused with getting a bridge pickup for the V. I've considered the Custom, JB and Full Shred.

EDIT: After reading the Jazz reviews in the Vault I'm doubting. Maybe a '59 or another Full Shred...or a Distortion. Thoughts?
 
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I think the guitarist from Opeth uses a full shred, would that be a tone that is characteristic of the pickup?
 
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Mikael Akerfeldt uses a Full Shred set in his blue PRS CU24 and one other PRS CU24, and recently got an endorsement deal with SD set up. Deliverance, Damnations solo's, and the live Lamentations DVD is a good reference for the tone.
 
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Ashe said:
Well I'm lookin for a good strong metal tone. I want a solid bridge pickup that doesn't muddy up and has good highs so it has some more snap to it and a lil less growl ya know? And the Jazz is goin in no matter what for the clean tones and I got a friend who says you could call it the Metal too. But yeah I'm mostly focused with getting a bridge pickup for the V. I've considered the Custom, JB and Full Shred.

EDIT: After reading the Jazz reviews in the Vault I'm doubting. Maybe a '59 or another Full Shred...or a Distortion. Thoughts?
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It sounds like a Full shred/jazz might be right up your alley. I think the Full Shred is very a underated pickup.
 
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Cazmarzak said:
I got a Full Shred from a guy who took it out of an old Kramer Night swan. This pickup isn't anything like the tone chart suggested. The tone chart said it had lots of highs and I put it in my guitar and it was very warm and smooth sounding.

Any one else have this sound from a Full Shred, If I had known that it was gonna sound like that, I would have tried one out a long time ago.
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Hey Rick...what's up?


Wow, you really went to opposite ends of the sonic spectrum for pickups. I remember when you had the Tone Zone that you liked alot and that was fairly bassy with a ton of mids....now you're at the Full Shred?? That's quite a change!!! I'd love to try the Full Shred but I'm afraid it would be too shrill in my guitar(s).

How would you compare it to the JB you had a while back?? I remember you not liking that so much.
 
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Jason,

The thing is, I tried the JB and every other Duncan Imaginable in my SL-2 and hated them all in it. So I put the Breed in and liked that, It wasn't as middy as the Tone Zone and it cut through a little Better.

The Full shred went into my Vivian Campbell copy guitar as the Dimarzios were kina weird sounding in that one. I don''t know if it was cause of the poplar body or just cause it was a bolt on, but I put a Custom custom in it and it was ALMOST the sound I wanted, but Since I am into Viivian o lot more again, I decided to try the Full shred and I'm gLad I did.
 
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Ashe said:
Well I'm lookin for a good strong metal tone. I want a solid bridge pickup that doesn't muddy up and has good highs so it has some more snap to it and a lil less growl ya know? And the Jazz is goin in no matter what for the clean tones and I got a friend who says you could call it the Metal too. But yeah I'm mostly focused with getting a bridge pickup for the V. I've considered the Custom, JB and Full Shred.

EDIT: After reading the Jazz reviews in the Vault I'm doubting. Maybe a '59 or another Full Shred...or a Distortion. Thoughts?
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Sounds to me, like a Full Shred will fit the "solid bridge pickup that doesn't muddy up and has good highs so it has some more snap to it" ... it has a little growl it if you push it.

Talk to (Private Message maybe) Hellion as I believe he's running a Full Shred in his V ...

AFAIK The Jazz should be good for Metal and I think it will balance excellently with the FS for output, Jolly ran a Jazz/Jazz combo in his LP and got killer tones from it. I run a FS/'59 set. Clean tones are much more tricky IMO than dirty tones, the '59 gives me a lush 'juicy' sort of tone, and for some reason at times seems louder than the Full Shred.
 
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I wouldn't say the tone chart is off. I just think that PuPs will sound differently with different guitar woods and different amp set ups, and its all really relative.
 
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I think the Full Shred is great, esp in my Ash Strats. Cool clean tone as well. I'd really like to try out the FS neck model someday. I think the pickup is very underrated.

Farkus
 
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Jeff 5,

The thing is that with my guitar having so many higs and beig briight and shrill, when I looked at that tone chart and saw that the FS had way more highs than anything else it just turned me away from wven trying it.




I'm just glad that I did.
 
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Cazmarzak said:
Jeff 5,

The thing is that with my guitar having so many higs and beig briight and shrill, when I looked at that tone chart and saw that the FS had way more highs than anything else it just turned me away from wven trying it.




I'm just glad that I did.
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I saw the same thing.....might be worth trying now if that's not completely accurate.
 
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