Picking up a little thing called a KV2...

[Jacksons Shred]

Saw it, got it for (what I hope) to be a pretty fair price... It comes with knobs, too.

http://img44.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=87442045.jpg

Gonna be picking it up some time this week! So..I guess, I don't technically own it yet, but still, it will be mine!

[Advv]

Looks great! Congrats!

[Foulacy]

oh wow that's a good one. love the all black w/ emg's.

[Jacksons Shred]

I'm pretty excited. I've never been much of a fan of KV's, but this one really caught my eye. I'll post pictures ( and a video ) once I get it.

[Electric]

Looks sweet. I've got an RR1 all black with EMG's. They could be cousins. Congrats on the new axe.

[Jacksons Shred]

Looks sweet. I've got an RR1 all black with EMG's. They could be cousins. Congrats on the new axe.

Send the RR1 my way, it'll make em' brothers (or sisters).

[EvileMatt]

Looks niiiiiice, you won't be disappointed with the KV2!

[jk2171]

Congrats! The speed profile neck on the KV2s are awesome.

[metalvince333]

youll love it I have a kv2 with emg's and its sick!

[Jacksons Shred]

youll love it I have a kv2 with emg's and its sick!

I'm not a big fan of EMGs, I'm probably going to replace them with something else.

Anyone have any suggestions? I dig the 80's shredish sound, I loved the Tone Zone but I hear good things about the JB with these.

[toejam]

Nice! Put the 85 in the bridge and the 81 in the neck and see if you don't like it better that way.

[Hellbat]

I have used and recommend the Duncan Full Shred or Custom. The Full Shred may be a little bright in an alder/poplar bodied guitar but might be nice on a Maple neckthrough. I used mine in a basswood bolt on Ibanez though so it should be okay. It can be a little thin sounding though. Great for leads, so-so for attack/chunk on chords.

Custom gives you a nice full range sound. I discovered it through recommendations here and I can tell you that right now I have no reason to ever again buy a different pickup. It is very jack of all trades for me. It doesn't stand out over and above specialty pickups in any area, but it does everything very capably. I find it similar to the JB in output just with a flatter frequency response curve. I still want to try a Custom 5 one day as I think with an Alnico magnet it would be the ultimate "Rock" pickup.

If you are looking for BROOTAL, check out the Blackouts. Ridiculous output coupled with a very balanced frequency output. (Slight low frequency emphasis I think.) I'm running the blackouts in my Charvel Model 5 and they have far more output than the Stock J-80c's with the JE-1200 midboost cranked. Its hard to get a clean sound set up with them because of having to bottom out the gain though. Some people have commented the neck one sounds a little sweeter when used as a bridge pickup and I could believe that. The added bonus is if the guitar is wired with the EMG quick connects, then you can use the same connectors for the blackouts.

[Jacksons Shred]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'll be picking up the guitar tomorrow!

[Jacksons Shred]

Picked her up today, it's a cool guitar for sure. I think the guitar dwarfs me though.

[KBRR]

You must be huge lol