Good type of humbucker?

[11miles]

I am wondering what type of Humbuckers are really good for that ''hard rock driven shredding sound?''

Not nu-metal emg, stuff and not some pussy pickups too?

Any suggestions?

[11miles]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

Oh and another thing?

I am not familiar with the american word for nut?
What exactly is that on the guitar?
Or where?

[toejam]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

Originally posted by 11miles:
I am wondering what type of Humbuckers are really good for that ''hard rock driven shredding sound?''

Not nu-metal emg

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, that's why Slayer, Exodus, Metallica, Zakk Wylde, Prototype and many others have used EMGs for years... but none of them have a hard rock shredding sound?!? [img]graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] None of them are what you'd call nu-metal... well, maybe the new Sucktallica, but that's a whole different story.

[khabibissell]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

Try a Dimarzio Super Distortion... I love 'em!

Duncan JB's are pretty popular too. What kind of guitar do you have?

[StukaJU87]

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I am not familiar with the american word for nut?
What exactly is that on the guitar?
Or where?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The nut is the piece between the headstock and 1st fret where the strings rest.

[iamsuperdan]

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I've been a true believer in the DiMarzio Tone Zone for years now. In my BC Rich ST I went through 6 or 7 different humbuckers, trying different things to get a tone I liked. Within a minute of playing through a Tone Zone, I was hooked.

I first tried it back in the early 90s when it was first released. I was playing old school thrash, and it fit in perfectly. Excellent crunch, great for leads and harmonics, and a nice clean sound too.

I also like the Seymour Duncan Screamin' Demon, but it's clean tone is kind of weak.

[11miles]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

ToeJam:
I just said that a lot of guitarist use EMG's especially those nu-metal bands that are evolving nowadays!
Offcourse some ''old farts'' used them aswell and i did not say i dont like the tone!

I was trying an Ibanez with 81 EMG in bridge position!
Very Limp Bizkit. Korn, sound!
What i was expecting was something of the likes of System of a down or Foo Fighters?
Any EMG like that?
Or Humbuckers?

I play solely rythm with no space for solo's!

Just plain shredding, dropped D type!
You know?

I was trying an Epiiphone Les Paul Studio and was surprsed by it's sound!
Very interesting!

[IommiChild]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

i went thru a couple of pickups on my soloist before i found the almighty DiMarzio Tone Zone....man it is fantastic. it just seems like its perfectly eq'd for just about any kind of rock you can think of. full on, its great for metal, roll back the volume a bit and you can hit an AC/DC-classic rockish tone....i love it!

[Ace]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

1. EMG's have been popular a LOT longer than nu-metal. Nu-metal kids were probably given EMG's by their guitar techs.

2. Foo Fighters and System of a Down sound NOTHING AT ALL alike in guitar tone.

3.Pickups do not define the entire tone of the guitar. If you thought the guitar sounded more like Korn than the Foo Fighters, that's because you are probably playing through an amp more similar to Korn's than the Foo Fighters.

4. Drop D tuning is for children, adjusting your guitar so that you can play power chords with one finger is NOT shredding.

5. You can probably buy the pickups from an Epiphone Les Paul Studio on eBay for $20 for the set, if that's the sound you are looking for.

6. The nut is the part at the end of the fretboard right before the headstock where the strings pass through.

[ July 17, 2003, 12:15 AM: Message edited by: Ace ]

[Duster71]

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I've always had good luck with the Dimarzio Super Distortions, I play mostly hard rock/heavy metal (KISS, AC/DC, Ratt, Warrant, Slaughter, Alice in Chains etc.) and I've never been disappointed. I have put them in every guitar I have owned for the past 15 years. I just put 3 of them in my Les Paul Artisan and it really has that nice deep crunch to it now that it lacked with the Gibson pick ups. Well just my opinion.

[Black Mariah]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

If you want a SoaD/Foo Fighters type tone, go for a Duncan Distortion. It can handle both of those with ease.

Drop D isn't for kids, but that's who uses it. Just think about Soundgarden and, more appropriately, the MELVINS. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[ July 17, 2003, 01:52 AM: Message edited by: Black Mariah ]

[11miles]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

Well, i am a kid, no doubt about it!
Being a dropped-d fan!
And in my opinion it does help the shredding. First of all you pull the tone down more heavier and get a wider tone and you can play with those 2 extra tones(D and D#)!


I never said that Foo and Soad sounds the same i just like both guitar tones!

And why the h*** is the nut called the nut?

Is the difference between an active and a passive p'up only in the ammount of gain it produce?

So active is really more appropriate for harder sounding?

[Ace]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

Through learning different chord patterns I can play down to the equivalent of a B power chord on a six string tuned to E. I personally tune my entire guitar down to C#, not just the bottom string.

Active pickups have a battery inside the guitar, which boosts the signal, thereby overdriving the amp's input and producing more gain which turns into distortion. Active pickups, like the EMG's and the Duncan Live Wires, have the ability to produce more gain going into the amp than passive pickups. They are designed to play "harder" than passive pickups, but people have different opinions on how they sound compared to certain passive pickups.

I have no idea why a nut is called a nut. Stringed instruments have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years, and maybe somewhere along the line the nut of some instruments was made from walnut or some other nut wood. Just a guess on that one though.

[ July 17, 2003, 05:58 AM: Message edited by: Ace ]

[Ace]

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BTW toejam, I am going to tell Vince that you mentioned his band in the same line as Metallica!! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[countandduke]

Re: Good type of humbucker?

Dimarzio Evolution's rule! I put them in an old guitar and they sounded kick ashe!!