Pickup help...

[metalguy]

Hi everyone. Im new to the forum and wanted to ask for a little advice. Im having a guitar built for me. Its a mahogany body with macassar ebony top and maple/bubinga neck-thru. Pretty heavy I guess but im really not sure what pickup to use. I used a Distortion for a while but im interested in something waaay different. This guitar will be mostly for heavier music, but am getting four conductor for tapping so I can get cleaner/single coil sounds as well.

What do you guys think? Also, I met Rich ward from Stuck Mojo/Fozzy and he uses the parallel axis trembucker in a Les Paul. How would that sound in a non trem guitar?

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Pickup help...

What scale length will the guitar be? What type of bridge? you said you wanted something way different from a DD... Different in what way? More or less bass? less output?

 

[metalguy]

Re: Pickup help...

What scale length will the guitar be? What type of bridge? you said you wanted something way different from a DD... Different in what way? More or less bass? less output?

Its gonna be fanned frets with 24.75 on the highs and 27 on the low. The bridge is going to be tune-o-matic. I like the nuts of the DD but to me it lacks that organic feel. It doesnt feed back very well and the cleans arent my favorite. Ive got a custom wound set in my Gibson from Lundgren in Sweden and they rock.

I really like the sounds of jerry Cantrell on the first AIC album and Adam from Tool as well. I guess they both use the JB. I really want that homegrown sound but dont want to be like evryone else, you know? Thats why I was wondering about trembuckers in a non-trem guitar.

The woods in my guitar are gonna be pretty dense so Im not in need of a lot of bass. Some mids would be great. As Far as output I dont understand alot of the talk of DC resonance and all that. I want to be able to pull the distorion out of the amp, and have nice cleans and not so cleans hehe.

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Pickup help...

The newer tune-a-matics are wider spaced and do take a trem spaced pickup... But my take on it was that it didnt make a ton of difference either way... Really with the wood combination and the fanned frets I think the guitar will have a unique sound anyways... So a JB may be just the ticket... It also splits pretty nice so your tapping would be useful...