Let's Rock a Duncan!

El Dunco

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I have a Jackson Warrior kit that I had left lying around in pieces because it required some woodwork to get it to all fit together.

Now that this is done, I have a very nice playing guitar without a set of pickups so a thought occurred to me in the form of something of a challenge.

I make a video of me playing a badass jam of one of my bands new songs from the record which is being pressed right now, using whatever Duncan we choose as a forum. Of course I will be buying the pickup, I'm not expecting any endorsements or anything silly like that.

This will be the thread where we nominate which Duncan for me to drop in the guitar, promote and rock with, then I will make another with a poll where we vote on it once and for all.

The guitar is routed for 2 buckers (If we choose a neck I'll switch to it for the solo). It's an alder warrior with a stop bar Les Paul type bridge.

In all honesty, I can play through any pickup and make it sound righteous but we can have some real fun with this. The newer it is the better and the more unlikely it is the better.

Should follow the following commandments.

1. Thou will growl like mofo on thine chords will roar like lion, growling on sustain of thee and snarling as thou decays.

2. Thy chunky palm mutes shall hit like sledgehammer to thy tiles. Thou shalt not be boring same old "chugga chugga".

3. Thou shalt have mighty low-mid testicles and may sag but shalt not flub or fart.

4. Thou shalt be heard and punch through. Always.

5. Thou shalt gracefully accept cheeky and menacing 7th and 10th intervals and have them be noticed in a rocking chord.

6. Thou shalt be a more creative choice than staple pickups such as the tried and true JB/Distortion etc. (mostly because I already have guitars with these pickups in them and it's about time we had a demo of an unusual, brand new or untested pickup doing a searing, violent mammajaaammmm)

7. Thy pickup may be passive or active.

8. Thy hums must be bucked.

9. Thy pickup may be a one off such as a forum pickup which thine may have missed out on as long as acquisition can be arranged (this pro is responsible for purchase)

10. Thy parts may be customized however, tonal change from mag/pole piece swaps must have a significant bearing on thy tone and must already be like that.

I promise I will do everything in my power to make this video demo really exciting, badass and an awesome representation of what Seymour Duncan's can do and I really hope you folks enjoy it when I make it.

Fire away the suggestions guys!
 
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Well, I would say a pair of 78s would be cool, that or the S-decos.

If it needs to be production...hmmm.. Jazz set- bridge and neck.
 
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I was thinking of Blackouts too, but I think Dino Cazares already did those, unless you want to hear them through an amp that's not a Vetta.
 
Re: Let's Rock a Duncan!

Well, I would say a pair of 78s would be cool, that or the S-decos.

If it needs to be production...hmmm.. Jazz set- bridge and neck.
Not necessarily. This is more about the forum than it is me, I already know what I want in a pickup and the truth is, pickups aren't the biggest component of my tone, so this is a chance for everyone to get together and speak up about which SD's they'd like to see demo'd in an awesome video playing a wild song :)
 
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Not necessarily. This is more about the forum than it is me, I already know what I want in a pickup and the truth is, pickups aren't the biggest component of my tone, so this is a chance for everyone to get together and speak up about which SD's they'd like to see demo'd in an awesome video playing a wild song :)

Then by all means, go with some 78s, or S-decos- I just thought with a limited budget the Jazz set would be interesting with the very low output, and unforgiving nature.
 
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Budget is no problem for me. I can demo anything really. I'll definitely poll the Jazz though, I've heard good things about it for the screaming thrash.
 
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Could do something wacky, like a Blackout Modular Preamp with Jazz pickups.

If you haven't tried a Parallel Axis pickup, should give one a whirl sometime. PATB-2 is an interesting take on the Distortion. Much hotter, more growl, sweeter for solos. One of SD's best gonzo metal pickups. Or Frank Falbo has talked a bit about a PATB-78 that sounded pretty intriguing. Then again, you could get the Custom Shop to spin you a Parallel Axis twist on some other fave...

Or there's any number of custom shop pickups that lack good samples or even detailed descriptions of how they behave. S-Deco I've heard precisely one good demo (which was pretty spectacular!), for example. Super V and El Diablo are some others that have gotten raves but few samples/detailed rundowns.
 
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Ok sweet. These suggestions are all really fantastic. I'll let this linger a day or so then I'll gather a poll. I've always wanted to try a PAT-B. It is a hardtail, but that gives me an excuse to see if the new stetsbar is any good ;)
 
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Ok sweet. These suggestions are all really fantastic. I'll let this linger a day or so then I'll gather a poll. I've always wanted to try a PAT-B. It is a hardtail, but that gives me an excuse to see if the new stetsbar is any good ;)

Yup, PATB-2b - PATB-1n in a hardtail!
 
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