SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

[Pumpkinspice]

Re: SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

Perhaps you can swop the Nazgul for a Pegasus. It will give you more versatility and stay hot but not be as hot as the more aggressive Nazgul. You may need to use your tone control more on the Nazgul if you're gonna play it in E with 10's. Might be too trebly on the more gained out stuff you might play. Just a thought. I'd personally use the Nazgul in my drop B and sometimes A tuned guitar. It should excel there "in the depths"

Hi,

That's just the thing, after installing it, the pickup's dark not bright. We're talking standard E with 10s too. The pickup output is somewhere along the lines of a custom too, maybe even slightly less. I double checked the wiring, but it's fine. Maybe I got a bad one? Definitely don't hear all the "bright" thing all the people mention. It's ok for rock, a bit too stiff. I wonder how it sounds with an A5 inside, but no one appereantly tried it out yet, which is a shame.

As for the depths, I don't really play those tunings, lowest I go is E flat. If I ever start going "low", might just as well get myself a 7, and still have the versatility of a standard tuning I'm accustomed to.


Cheers

 

[Ben1962]

Re: SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

Why you find it funny? Thats exactly the description I would give it. Sounds like it has a mini distortion pedal in it, Nasty lil mother of a Pup

 

[Aceman]

Re: SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

Why you find it funny? Thats exactly the description I would give it. Sounds like it has a mini distortion pedal in it, Nasty lil mother of a Pup

In my old age I'm just not a fan of attitudinal descriptors.

Aggressive & Nasty or...

Powerful and Quick responding?

Same pickup. One set of descriptors would turn some on, and others off. But I get it. I call a Dimarzio X2N stupid hot....hahahaha.

It just makes people disregard great pickups as metal. And vice versa.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

I would like to say that there is no such thing as a "metal" pickup. As was said on another thread, no pickups work for metal through a Fender Princeton Reverb and all pickups work for metal through a Mesa Triple Rectifier. I would like to add to that statement though. Me, a 3.5k bridge lipstick pickup, a Big Muff, and a JCM800 managed to do a pretty solid cover of Crazy Train. It didn't sound anything like Rhandy, but it was a darn good sound for old school metal. My buddy used the same guitar in his own amp and did some pretty solid Slipknot. On a 3.5k lipstick tube.

 

[Ben1962]

Re: SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

Have you ever heard the Nazgul in your rig? Dont make me sick blueman on you

 

[Pumpkinspice]

Re: SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

Thanks for the help peeps,
I’ve decided that I dislike the Nazgul for anything I’m doing - it’s the voicing of its low mids that’s so unmelodic - not the output of it - and decided I’ll swap it with another custom. Atleast that’s something I know works for anything I throw at it.

Cheers

 

[BleedingFingertips]

Re: SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

Thanks for the help peeps,
I’ve decided that I dislike the Nazgul for anything I’m doing - it’s the voicing of its low mids that’s so unmelodic - not the output of it - and decided I’ll swap it with another custom. Atleast that’s something I know works for anything I throw at it.

Cheers

My initial thought was why not use another Custom for the purpose you described. But now you at least have your opinion on what Nazgul is good for.

 

[BleedingFingertips]

Re: SD Nazgul for other things then modern metal

In my old age I'm just not a fan of attitudinal descriptors.

Aggressive & Nasty or...

Powerful and Quick responding?

Same pickup. One set of descriptors would turn some on, and others off. But I get it. I call a Dimarzio X2N stupid hot....hahahaha.

It just makes people disregard great pickups as metal. And vice versa.

Well... some adjectives are more or less precise. I at least have no understanding problems with "agressive" or "brutal". What I don't understand is "open sounding", "fluid leads" or something like this.