Trying to choose pickup for HSS Strat (Sh-6 vs Sh-8?)

[Franknfilms]

Re: Trying to choose pickup for HSS Strat (Sh-6 vs Sh-8?)

This clip in particular http://netmusicians.org/?section=id&value=6750 has got me leaning more towards a custom. The SH-6 clips on here sound pretty terrible :/

Yeah man, trust your ears, if you search the forum as well you'll find tons of clips.

 

[surface54]

Re: Trying to choose pickup for HSS Strat (Sh-6 vs Sh-8?)

i find the Custom pickup in general has the right amount of lows and highs. mids can be set with the magnet type. and the C8 has the whole range just ready to be exploited for whatever genre you play, and it will sound bigger than most designed pickups for those specific genre's. C8 can even do vintage with the right amp. and for metal its like the closest thing to a active EMG i can think of. and Schecters seems to love the C8.

 

[surface54]

Re: Trying to choose pickup for HSS Strat (Sh-6 vs Sh-8?)

here is a DiMarzio 36th Anniversary PAF ran through a XXX.
8.6k resistance
tone chart is 5,6.5,6 for T-M-B
just shows sometimes highput isnt always needed.

not my clip
http://www.netmusicians.org/files/80-WOS04 5-1.mp3

http://netmusicians.org/?section=pickup&value=DiMarzio 36th Anniversary PAF

 

[Frogman]

Re: Trying to choose pickup for HSS Strat (Sh-6 vs Sh-8?)

here is a DiMarzio 36th Anniversary PAF ran through a XXX.
8.6k resistance
tone chart is 5,6.5,6 for T-M-B
just shows sometimes highput isnt always needed.

http://www.netmusicians.org/files/80-WOS04 5-1.mp3

What were your amp settings there?

 

[Franknfilms]

Re: Trying to choose pickup for HSS Strat (Sh-6 vs Sh-8?)

What were your amp settings there?

This is where he found it.

36th anniversary paf in F# tuning doing metal through a peavey xxx. Now that's thinking outside the box.

 

[surface54]

Re: Trying to choose pickup for HSS Strat (Sh-6 vs Sh-8?)

This is where he found it.

36th anniversary paf in F# tuning doing metal through a peavey xxx. Now that's thinking outside the box.

you know the more i hear that clip the more im interested in hearing my DSL with a really lower gain pickup like the PAF, and then set the DSL's with the gain on full. i bet it would clear it up and still have that right amount of focused gain in the signal.
hmmm.....though id be concerned it would be too vintage and id never be able to get away from that influence in the tone.

 

[Franknfilms]

Re: Trying to choose pickup for HSS Strat (Sh-6 vs Sh-8?)

you know the more i hear that clip the more im interested in hearing my DSL with a really lower gain pickup like the PAF, and then set the DSL's with the gain on full.

The 59 bridge tends to get used for metal but I never hear anyone chugging a pearly gates or seth or jazz through a high gain amp. Maybe someone can enlighten us. Personally, I'd love to try a paf bridge for metal.