Help With Guitar Pickups

[juliantay]

well i have a MTM2 it come with V7 and V8 ibanez pickups......i change the V8 with Dimebucker™ SH-13 (seymour duncan pickup) ......

and im finding a neck pickup to replace the V7 . . . i like 1 tone from the solo of chapter 4 a7x ....not a big fan ..just like the guitar tone .......



The a7x solo


so help all those up there is just info about what i'm trying to get . . . . .any better guitar solo tone u wanna show me i'll be GLAD ....thx for viewing

 

[Whitestrat]

I dunno man... that tone actually sounds pretty flat and lifeless. It COULD be the mix... Or that irritating vocal laid over it...:mrgreen:

Sounds like a simple PAF Pro would work for you.

 

[juliantay]

yea man really hate the vocal in A7X....thx 4 the reply

 

[silverhand]

hi bro !! I am not really big fan of A7x, but as I knew, the lead guitarist, he is using Seymour Duncan SH-8 Custom Shop Invader pickups in his guitars and also a sustainic pickup in the neck. He uses Drop D tuning most of the time. If you are looking the sound similar, I think beside with the pups, you can try line6 POD, because it can mod with mesa boogie head and cabinet or Marshall as in his gear; and you also can find most of the high gain pedals for metal playing. It is just my idea when I tried to make sound like Limp and Linkin. Check it out his gear, I copy from internet . Enjoy !!

Amplifiers
* Bogner Uberschall and caveman (main)
* Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Roadster Head
* Marshall various low-watt combos
Speaker Cabinets
* Marshall 4x12" cab
* Bogner Uberkab 4x12" (main)
* Mesa/Boogie 4x12" Recto Cabinet Straight
Effects Units
* Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
* Boss CS-3 Compressor
* Visual Sound H20 Chorus/Echo
* Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer
* Frantone "The Sweet" Distortion
* Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive
* Boss BF-3 Flanger
* Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter
* Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
* Seymour Duncan SFX-01 Pickup Booster
* Voodoo Lab PEDAL POWER 2
* Voodoo Lab GCX Audio Switcher
* Jim Dunlop Crybaby From Hell Wah Pedal
String: Ernie Ball 'skinny top, heavy bottom' strings. Hybrid strings.

 

[kahuna]

You can have all his gear but you still wouldnt sound exactly like him, you may have his pickups, but you guitar might be different, in terms of wood and such, and plus tone is in the fingers.

sorry to stray of the topic.

Anyway regarding the tone, it sounds compressed so MAYBE a compressor might help

 

[fiqthefallen]

haha yeah...

mimic the gear and effects is not enough. the player as well defines the sound of the guitar.

 

[juliantay]

yeah i know but i wanna change my neck pickups .....so im finding wht so get

 

[fiqthefallen]

well, according to silverhand, he uses a sustaining pickup, which helps him to sustain his notes really well. my guess is a fernandes sustaining system, which itself is a pickup and a nifty piece of gadget for a guitar.

trying looking it up. i may be VERY wrong though, but i just wanna help! =D

 

[jskadiang]

synyster gates? fernandes sustainer? as far as I know he uses an SH-8 in both the bridge and the neck, but I highly recommend you don't do that, unless you're planning to play a7x all the time. invaders are hardly versatile, and you'll probably kill your cleans.

If you've already bought the dimebucker, try the dimarzio air norton or dimarzio evolution neck pickups, I use the evolution and it gets a great solo tone.

 

[juliantay]

thx alot ppl lot mix post ...so im gonna reseach .... thx alot