ok, so this is a really weird question really... but it all boils down to this: if i´m gunna tune really low on my 7 string, like lower than A low, then if you HAD to choose either the Blaze Neck, or the Blaze Bridge to put in the bridge position of the guitar, which one would it be? and also, remark that i don´t play solos much, i´m worried about the thickest strings... tuning to, as i have said before on this forum ( ) a low G...
the defining factors are: clarity/muddiness, low-end tightness...
i don´t want too much bass so it gets all boomy and messy... and i want it to be bright and clean...
i want people who have the Blaze bridge to tell me their feelings on the subject, and the people who put blaze neck pickups in the bridge position as well!
AND, do you think i should just sod off with those two and go for the blaze custom? remember, i´m not playing solos with this thing, think of the thickest strings! and remember i´m tuning looow
with tunings that low I would maybe recommend using EMG's for their far superior clarity and frequency response. They might be considered "sterile" by some but they sound great and they'll handle the lower tunings better than most passive pickups.
nah, i don´t want actives... i could go for the dimarzio d-activators though, but they´re not quite what i want from a 7-string... i want something really clean, and while EMGs ARE clean, they´re quite loud, and i do think they sound really sterile and plastic-ish... and i need a good clean-sound...
i´m going to be using both heavy distortion and no distortion, and it has to be non-muddy and clear in both situations, all the way down to G...
anyone have suggestions other than dimarzio too maybe? like seymour duncan? although i have a hard time imagining duncans that can handle that job properly, Duncans were always too vintage-ish to me...
Ever consider an Evolution-7? At one point I had a 7 with Blazes, and a 7 with an Evo and I had to say that the Evo has that little bit extra clarity (and better lead tone IMO) and handled low-G tuning very well.
why not just do it the cheap way and buy a Blaze Custom and then use a 1Meg pot or no pots at all. That'll allow a ton more brightness through the signal to the amp.
or use a Blaze Neck and use some kind of small 5-10 band eq pedal or a tube screamer to bump the mids a bit more.
but do i need the mids to have a nice rhythm sound though? KoRn has used the blaze neck in the bridge position, and Meshuggah uses bright and scooped pickups, and none of them sound at all lacky in the mids...
but if i were to go with 1 meg pots on the blaze custom, where would i get 1 meg pots? i don´t think that´s a typical thing you can get anywhere...
naw, it´s way too expencive for me, especially with the shipping... i just want something that´s gunna be nice and articulate when distorted, even when playing chords, and it needs to be as un-muddy as possible, plus it has to sound good clean as well...
ok, so what if we looked away from blazes but stayed within dimarzio? any suggestions?
It's better to go with low output + less distortion than high output and high distortion. High output pups need alot more distortion than low or mid output to sound decent.
i find it to be the other way around... high output pickups are hotter and louder, and push your amp harder, so you have to dial the distortion down quite a bit to avoid mutilating feedback and sludge-like sound...
lower output pickups tend to sound cleaner with distortion, and need more gain... good thing with this though, is that it sounds alot clearer coming in, so it´s more articulate sounding
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