High-gain passive recommendations

ProgMXCnerd70

ProgMXCnerd70

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Listening to the clips, my thought with this kind of sound would be a Pegasus/Sentient set. If the guitar naturally has a brighter sound, I might go with the Black Winter.
 
I am on my 2nd Black Winter guitar. I have a single in my Strat and HH in my SG. A friend of mine played the Strat on Friday and said he might have to kill me if I didn't gift him the Strat. Keep in mind this is a very hard rock/classic metal kind of guy, not a death or black metal guy in any way. The interesting thing was he turned off the distortion and started playing The Trees by RUSH. Even though it is my guitar, I was blown away by the cleanliness of the BW bridge. Shamefully I must admit that 99.9% of the time I am playing the BW I am playing something heavier. Outside of the day I installed it I haven't really heard that pickup clean.
 
It's killing me right now that I don't have a BW set in not even one of my guitars.
Damnit.

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Demanic said:
It's killing me right now that I don't have a BW set in not even one of my guitars.
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One of us has to move closer to the other. You could come over here and grab any guitar you wanted.
 
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Securb said:
One of us has to move closer to the other. You could come over here and grab any guitar you wanted.
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Not a fan of winter in the Valley of the Sun.
And winter in NH is pretty close to winter in MN. Which I am even less of a fan of.
Wyoming?
And that exchange would work in either direction.
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My first thought was Black Winter. In a Les Paul type, it's the most 'active' sounding pickup I've experienced, very tight, even; though it might not have the upper mid vowel character you are looking for. It's the one pickup where I got the character out of the amp instead. In a super strat, IME, it's a slightly different animal. Has more warmth and mids, Tight and bright like a Duncan Distortion, but a more modern cleaner/clearer version and a slight mid-peak. I don't know how much the guitar body/neck itself contributed to those differences, however.

What kind of guitar is this going in?
What amp/cab are you using?

Outside of the suggestions already made, I'd have to wonder if another brand might have something, like a DiMarzio model (I'm less familiar with their line.)
 
beaubrummels said:
My first thought was Black Winter. In a Les Paul type, it's the most 'active' sounding pickup I've experienced, very tight, even; though it might not have the upper mid vowel character you are looking for. It's the one pickup where I got the character out of the amp instead. In a super strat, IME, it's a slightly different animal. Has more warmth and mids, Tight and bright like a Duncan Distortion, but a more modern cleaner/clearer version and a slight mid-peak. I don't know how much the guitar body/neck itself contributed to those differences, however.

What kind of guitar is this going in?
What amp/cab are you using?

Outside of the suggestions already made, I'd have to wonder if another brand might have something, like a DiMarzio model (I'm less familiar with their line.)
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I would be using a Triple Rectifier model on my Firehawk FX with a Precision Drive in front to tighten it up. I have it running through a V30 type IR.
I've also thought about the Bare Knuckle Juggernaut or the DiMarzio Illuminators, as well as the SD line. It's going into a super strat-type 6 string tuned to Drop A#.
 
ProgMXCnerd70 said:
I would be using a Triple Rectifier model on my Firehawk FX with a Precision Drive in front to tighten it up. I have it running through a V30 type IR.
I've also thought about the Bare Knuckle Juggernaut or the DiMarzio Illuminators, as well as the SD line. It's going into a super strat-type 6 string tuned to Drop A#.
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I'd say the Black Winters would do the job well, but consider the Pegasus/Sentient if you want (or need) less mids and more highs and lows.
 
I absolutely love the Black Winter. I do think it has a pretty focused upper midrange, but I've never considered it to be vowel-like. I would say it's more emphatic than even a JB. Not because it necessarily has more upper mids than a JB, but because it definitely has much less lower mid stuffiness. I don't normally consider upper midrange to ve vowel-like, honestly. For me, that's more of a core mid thing like a tube screamer.
 
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I absolutely love the Black Winter. I do think it has a pretty focused upper midrange, but I've never considered it to be vowel-like. I would say it's more emphatic than even a JB. Not because it necessarily has more upper mids than a JB, but because it definitely has much less lower mid stuffiness. I don't normally consider upper midrange to ve vowel-like, honestly. For me, that's more of a core mid thing like a tube screamer.
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Okay gotcha. I played around with EQ on my Firehawk and found that the vowel sound tends to come from around 1-1.1kHz or 5kHz. Would the Black Winter sit somewhere near there or further away?
 
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ProgMXCnerd70 said:
Okay gotcha. I played around with EQ on my Firehawk and found that the vowel sound tends to come from around 1-1.1kHz or 5kHz. Would the Black Winter sit somewhere near there or further away?
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No, yeah. That's high mids and treble alright. I just think more of the nasal kind of vowel sound around 500-1000 range. But I guess we're hearing things differently.

You'll like the Black Winter alright. :)
 
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