The Exciter

[JUjuHound]

cant find anything really demo worthy. Someone said it can get Ace Frehley tones almost to the note if not on the note. Are they wrong? What do i need to know?
Was this an old custom shop recipe use by anyone on a "known" album?

 

[Mincer]

The times I've heard it, it sounded like a JB with a ceramic magnet. Tighter bass, less honk in the mids (but still a little honky), compressed. Great for an overdrive or distortion pedal into a Marshall JCM800, really.

 

[Chistopher]

See I don't understand these new pickups half the time. How is a new pickup that didn't exist in the 80s going to make me sound like a player from the 80s? If you are trying to replicate tone, Ace Frehley used a Dimarzio Super Distortion

 

[JUjuHound]

Not to get too deep into the woods about it. i was just curious about it and see if its something i would like. There is like zero quality videos on boob toob. And i hear ya that Ace man used the super D.

But weren't Kent Armstrong and bill lawrence the actual engineers behind the original Super D and which why Armstrong pickups can still sell their own Version and call it the Super distortion too?:
Im not trying to put words into anyone's mouth or rewrite history. i was just curious if the Exciter is SD take on a classic or otherwise similar design.

 

[Mincer]

See I don't understand these new pickups half the time. How is a new pickup that didn't exist in the 80s going to make me sound like a player from the 80s? If you are trying to replicate tone, Ace Frehley used a Dimarzio Super Distortion

Well, I think you can analyze different models available back then, and come up with something that sounds like what people were using. Pickups do this across all eras, though.

 

[beaubrummels]

See I don't understand these new pickups half the time. How is a new pickup that didn't exist in the 80s going to make me sound like a player from the 80s? If you are trying to replicate tone, Ace Frehley used a Dimarzio Super Distortion

But then you need a Laney AOR Pro Tube also. How many people have that now?

 

[superpete]

Xciter was George Lynch's band before Dokken. Pretty sure the exciter is just the distortion lite, aka the dokken bucker, aka the hunter

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Pretty sure the exciter is just the distortion lite, aka the dokken bucker, aka the hunter

I don't think it is. Duncan are reporting the DCR as higher, and I've read from people who have that it has the oversized magnet.