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I haven’t used many ceramic pickups, but I did quite enjoy the Nazgûl’s I put in an old schecter 7 string, and I believe those are ceramic. I was actually considering grabbing one of the new rail versions to put in one of my guitars
What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?
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TJontheRoad
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Cool stuff.
FYI, You may want to delete the guitar pic that also has your real name and address on the Bell helmet letter framed on the wall.
duzie
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Chugga chug chug !
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Thanks guys. I'd be shocked if I dipped my tones in the ceramic-infused waters again. I only did the
Dreamcatcher because Petrucci, and it tends to get rave reviews across the board. I don't doubt that
it is a great pickup. It sure does a thing. I just tend to demand a bit more versatility from a pickup---
and have found that you can make a pickup tighter and have a bit more output with an overdrive or
boost, but you can't make a pickup sweeter or softer if it wants to snarl the moment it wakes up in
the morning.
Like you guys, I tend to know what I like and what works for me. This is my first ceramic PU install
since the Evolutions in like 2009 or so. So maybe in another 15 years I'll forget all this happened and
install another set of ceramic-based PUs.
Caveat emptor.
Disclaimer: It's a fun pickup if you want to do that chugalicious thing with some legato leads.
JiveTurkey
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I watched a Kyle Bull IIc vid the other day with some no name Explorer with a Nazgul in the bridge and it sounded fantastic
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Ok, after playing with it some more I am going to do a 180 and force myself to keep
the Dreamcatcher in. I can experiment with dialing in some heavier tones, adjusting
the pickup height, and pole pieces.
It really is fun as fuck to play into an Engl, EVH Stealth, or JVM.
Too easy to default to my tried and true ways and get stuck in my own stuckness. This
is a healthy push in a different direction than I normally go.
the Dreamcatcher in. I can experiment with dialing in some heavier tones, adjusting
the pickup height, and pole pieces.
It really is fun as fuck to play into an Engl, EVH Stealth, or JVM.
Too easy to default to my tried and true ways and get stuck in my own stuckness. This
is a healthy push in a different direction than I normally go.
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That's the spirit -- Feel the pain of the ceramic coursing through your veins!Ok, after playing with it some more I am going to do a 180 and force myself to keep
the Dreamcatcher in. I can experiment with dialing in some heavier tones, adjusting
the pickup height, and pole pieces.
It really is fun as fuck to play into an Engl, EVH Stealth, or JVM.
Too easy to default to my tried and true ways and get stuck in my own stuckness. This
is a healthy push in a different direction than I normally go.
megametal7
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megametal7
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Played with that TD-Y all day yesterday, diving into some Division Bell tones. Started learning the “Poles Apart” solo and every few minutes I’d stop and grin. These tones were always so out of reach before, in the sense that none of the gear I was using for my own music would work for them.
There’s been a bit of a rejuvenation in learning/playing as a result of hitting these nostalgia points. When I got my first guitar The Division Bell was all I was listening to, nonstop before and after I got the guitar. Listening closely to learn the nuances in the solo brought me right back to being 11 and hanging onto every note I heard.
It’s also made me realize how thankful I am to have started playing pre-YouTube days when the only choice was to develop your ear and listening skills. You can always tell when someone learned something from a tab instead of learning it by ear, they almost always leave the nuances behind. Tabbing out Gilmour solos with all the tiny ass bends and articulations can only go so far.
There’s been a bit of a rejuvenation in learning/playing as a result of hitting these nostalgia points. When I got my first guitar The Division Bell was all I was listening to, nonstop before and after I got the guitar. Listening closely to learn the nuances in the solo brought me right back to being 11 and hanging onto every note I heard.
It’s also made me realize how thankful I am to have started playing pre-YouTube days when the only choice was to develop your ear and listening skills. You can always tell when someone learned something from a tab instead of learning it by ear, they almost always leave the nuances behind. Tabbing out Gilmour solos with all the tiny ass bends and articulations can only go so far.
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Ok, after playing with it some more I am going to do a 180 and force myself to keep
the Dreamcatcher in. I can experiment with dialing in some heavier tones, adjusting
the pickup height, and pole pieces.
It really is fun as fuck to play into an Engl, EVH Stealth, or JVM.
Too easy to default to my tried and true ways and get stuck in my own stuckness. This
is a healthy push in a different direction than I normally go.
Yeah I hear you, I always put PAF humbuckers in my guitars. It's hard to mix things up sometimes. Last I tried a ceramic was with the Duncan Custom and I think I swapped that out to an alnico 5 pretty quickly.
I do think those Transition pickups could be a good middle ground and I'd be curious to try them again.
Picked up my McCarty 594 which I think has 9.5's and it felt way too slinky and wimpy. Gotta put 10's on that next.
It's weird that they don't really sell boxes of strings anymore. When I was a kid you'd always get boxes of strings to save money and because we were always breaking them. Now you can get 3-packs sometimes, but never boxes. Feels weird to buy a bunch of individual packs.
Sounds good! I'm really thinking of picking the Slate drums and Trigger up while they are on sale.
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Jarick
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I bought it from Sweatwaller® for $70 off.
I ended up just grabbing it after I posted lol
Both Slate Drums and Trigger were $49 each, so why not? Maybe it's inspiring?
I've been wanting to remix an old project of mine when I was the drummer, and I recorded the drums in my parents garage. It sounds okay but I think mixing in some samples would really make it sound really good.
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I learned the "Poles Apart" solo, now I'm just practicing it. There's a fucking 2.5 step bend starting on the 12th fret B note up to an E. Jeeezus Fooking Christ man, I might have to raise my action just to get enough fingermeat under the string to push it up that far consistently. So much tone greatness in this one, barely distorted Tube Driver, a shitload of compression, rotary speakers and a shitload of dynamics.
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Are you sure he didn't slide up a fret or two after he started the bend to get the full 2.5 steps? I have seen that done.
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Certainly possible and that's how I'm going to end up doing it because I'm not gonna botch the note and it's a nightmare bending up to that point. He does the same thing in the "Another Brick" solo, but he's definitely bending up to it in that one.
