Help me decide on a 7 string neck pickup

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Legion216

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I've been doing a BUNCH of research, watching videos, listening to clips, doing pseudo-blind tests (where my wife plays clips to me when I'm looking away from the monitor) and I think I have narrowed it down to the Sentient, Full Shred and Jazz.

I'm looking for a single coil like snap, bite and jangle in a humbucker: The Sentient seems to have this in spades from Nok Novum's clips from what I can tell. I cannot seem to find a good clip of the Full Shred neck to compare, but the description on the website does seem to heavily imply this. The Jazz is a close second to the Sentient in terms of clips, but people I have spoken to suggest that it is better than the sentient at this single-coily thing.

Help me with your experience! Cheers!
 
All 3 are bright pickups, with the FS being the brightest, the Jazz next, then the Sentient. None of them wired in series sounds remotely like a single coil to me, but split or in parallel, all 3 are 75% there.
 
Mincer said:
All 3 are bright pickups, with the FS being the brightest, the Jazz next, then the Sentient. None of them wired in series sounds remotely like a single coil to me, but split or in parallel, all 3 are 75% there.
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I'm not looking for them to exactly replicate a single coil tone. Just a bright humbucker with a lot of bite, spank, snap and jangle.
 
Sentient is a great 7 string pickup. Black Winter is just as good but not as bright. I would give the Black Winter the edge when split. Either one would do the job nicely.
 
Legion216 said:
I'm not looking for them to exactly replicate a single coil tone. Just a bright humbucker with a lot of bite, spank, snap and jangle.
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That's just it...you can get any of the 3 to sound bright. None of them have spank, snap, or jangle. That's just not what they do, unless they are split or in parallel.
 
Mincer said:
That's just it...you can get any of the 3 to sound bright. None of them have spank, snap, or jangle. That's just not what they do, unless they are split or in parallel.
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I think we're using the same words to describe different things. What I mean is a tone like this:

https://soundcloud.com/lefty-lounge-lizard/lll-a6x-sd-sh-10n-snooze-blooze

This clip was posted a few days ago by LLL on this very forum (I just found the post, NICE playing!). This is a neck Full Shred. Can a Sentient or a Jazz replicate that tone?
 
Legion216 said:
I think we're using the same words to describe different things. What I mean is a tone like this:

https://soundcloud.com/lefty-lounge-...-snooze-blooze

This clip was posted a few days ago by LLL on this very forum (I just found the post, NICE playing!). This is a neck Full Shred. Can a Sentient or a Jazz replicate that tone?
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I know this is not your last question, I have FS neck and Jazz neck in a couple of guitars but I have never tried the Sentient. IMHO both the FS or Jazz will give you very enjoyable cleans, overdrive and lead tones. The Jazz has more mids while the FS neck has more treble so I guess choosing one or the other can also depend on what the bridge pickup is. If you have a dark hb in the bridge the tone contrast with a FS neck could be too much for you, or maybe not. Some days I like the FS better while some days I like the Jazz better, I use a FS set in one guitar and Jazz/JB in another.
 
Folks here talked me into getting a Black Winter neck a while back and I'm so happy they did. Cuts through the mix, very articulate and does everything I'd want it to do in that particular guitar.
 
Honestly you're going to do great with any of them, especially if you wire up a switch to do coil split or parallel. Full Shred will have a tighter, more immediate articulation (slightly).

I have the Jazz neck installed right now and its bright for sure but still very much a classic humbucker-ey sound and feel. Coil split though and it spanks like a single coil and loses that natural humbucker compression.

If you can't decide, get the one that excites you most. Not the one you "should" get :)
 
Hmm. The thing I find annoying is tone descriptors: everyone uses the same words to talk about different things.

alex1fly said:
If you can't decide, get the one that excites you most. Not the one you "should" get :)
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^This is probably the most useful thing that's been said here so far. Frankly it's probably going to be the Pegasus/Sentient. Seems to be more geared to what I want to do with this guitar. My other guitar is probably going to get a Humbucker from Hell in the neck so it's basically the same tonal territory as the Full Shred Neck. Maybe at some point down the line I will try the Full Shred, maybe in a different guitar. Got my eyes on a PRS S2 that I wanna grab, might do that to throw the FS set into that one. Thanks man.
 
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