I am a big Seymour fan. I do own a couple JB's. The "custom" is killer too for a passive. I also like the duncan distortion C or lower tunings. Im looking for that "active" punch, output and tightness. I guess ill try the Blackout's. Doesnt sound like they would suck. I recently picked up an old ESP horison bolt-on. I has no pups. It was this lame metalic candy pinkish red. I say WAS becuase it currently is hanging down in my basement with a wet coat of primer on it. I bought this kit from stew mac to finish it. comes with primer, black, and clear - all in spray cans. Should be ready in a few days.trendkill1168 said:I'm interested in this comparison as well. I use EMG's right now and they have great clarity for drop-tuned metal but they are slightly sterile sounding. I've never tried the Blackouts but I've listened to clips and they seem a little over bearing on the low end but I guess that could just be recordings with crappy camara mics. I had the Mustaine Live Wires in a Mustaine Dean V I used to have. They are based off of the passive JB/59 set and they had great crunch to them but they seemed to get a little muddy with lower tunings like the regular JB but **** they sounded great with standard or 1/2 step down tunings. I would definately run them in a guitar that was tuned to standard E. Very organic sounding pickups.
droptrd said:I am a big Seymour fan. I do own a couple JB's. The "custom" is killer too for a passive. I also like the duncan distortion C or lower tunings. Im looking for that "active" punch, output and tightness. I guess ill try the Blackout's. Doesnt sound like they would suck. I recently picked up an old ESP horison bolt-on. I has no pups. It was this lame metalic candy pinkish red. I say WAS becuase it currently is hanging down in my basement with a wet coat of primer on it. I bought this kit from stew mac to finish it. comes with primer, black, and clear - all in spray cans. Should be ready in a few days.trendkill1168 said:I'm interested in this comparison as well. I use EMG's right now and they have great clarity for drop-tuned metal but they are slightly sterile sounding. I've never tried the Blackouts but I've listened to clips and they seem a little over bearing on the low end but I guess that could just be recordings with crappy camara mics. I had the Mustaine Live Wires in a Mustaine Dean V I used to have. They are based off of the passive JB/59 set and they had great crunch to them but they seemed to get a little muddy with lower tunings like the regular JB but **** they sounded great with standard or 1/2 step down tunings. I would definately run them in a guitar that was tuned to standard E. Very organic sounding pickups.
maximus1 said:how would you describe duncan invaders for 7 or even 6 string?
TheHunter said:maximus1 said:how would you describe duncan invaders for 7 or even 6 string?
Dark. But brutal. Nice and open sounding. Not so good for recording but LIVE is fantastic. I like it paired with a guitar with EMGs.
Julia said:I've had both EMGs and currently have a Blackout. The EMGs felt a little too one dimensional (at least the 81 did). I replaced the EMGs in my Schecter C-1 Hellraiser with a JB/59 set. I didn't really like this set either... until I went down to a 10.5-48 set by D'Addario for Std D and drop C tunings. The heavy 12s I had on it sounded too "tubby" to me. Now the axe has some more bite to the tone.
The Blackout on my Alexi? I like that one. It's a rock maple through neck with an Alder body. But even here I'm finding the tone not as 3-dimensional.
My SG? I'm going from the 498T to a 57 Classic in the bridge. The 498T sounds good but the 57 to me sounds better. I liked the 61 Reissue better than the Standard when I bought the Standard, but I wasn't able to get the 61 Reissue for under $1200 at the time like I did the Standard.
shred-o-holic said:I used JB's for a while......but then I re-visited EMG's and cannot go back to passives as they do not have that hyper fast attack and clarity of actives......IMO......although I hear great things about those BK pickups...
LoG uses a 59 But yeah, I dunno how Michael Ammot got his sound so clear with those pickups, on that guitar (24.75" scale) =/trendkill1168 said:Julia said:I've had both EMGs and currently have a Blackout. The EMGs felt a little too one dimensional (at least the 81 did). I replaced the EMGs in my Schecter C-1 Hellraiser with a JB/59 set. I didn't really like this set either... until I went down to a 10.5-48 set by D'Addario for Std D and drop C tunings. The heavy 12s I had on it sounded too "tubby" to me. Now the axe has some more bite to the tone.
The Blackout on my Alexi? I like that one. It's a rock maple through neck with an Alder body. But even here I'm finding the tone not as 3-dimensional.
My SG? I'm going from the 498T to a 57 Classic in the bridge. The 498T sounds good but the 57 to me sounds better. I liked the 61 Reissue better than the Standard when I bought the Standard, but I wasn't able to get the 61 Reissue for under $1200 at the time like I did the Standard.
Man I see alot of metal players using JB's for drop-tuned metal like Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, Darkest Hour, etc... For some reason I can't get them to sound good downtuned. Maybe it's my sh!tty playing.
They have they presence on thier Mark IV's dimed.Shinozoku said:LoG uses a 59 But yeah, I dunno how Michael Ammot got his sound so clear with those pickups, on that guitar (24.75" scale) =/trendkill1168 said:Julia said:I've had both EMGs and currently have a Blackout. The EMGs felt a little too one dimensional (at least the 81 did). I replaced the EMGs in my Schecter C-1 Hellraiser with a JB/59 set. I didn't really like this set either... until I went down to a 10.5-48 set by D'Addario for Std D and drop C tunings. The heavy 12s I had on it sounded too "tubby" to me. Now the axe has some more bite to the tone.
The Blackout on my Alexi? I like that one. It's a rock maple through neck with an Alder body. But even here I'm finding the tone not as 3-dimensional.
My SG? I'm going from the 498T to a 57 Classic in the bridge. The 498T sounds good but the 57 to me sounds better. I liked the 61 Reissue better than the Standard when I bought the Standard, but I wasn't able to get the 61 Reissue for under $1200 at the time like I did the Standard.
Man I see alot of metal players using JB's for drop-tuned metal like Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, Darkest Hour, etc... For some reason I can't get them to sound good downtuned. Maybe it's my sh!tty playing.
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