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Best pickups for metal

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ArmoredAngels

Jan 12, 2012
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#1
Hey guys, I am building a custom bass and I would like everyones input on electronics. :help:

Is it better to make you guitar sound as clean as possible, then dirty it up with the amp, and effects .... or.... make everything sound as filthy as possible?

What are Your favorite pickups for Metal and why?

Do you recommend Active or Passive electronics?

btw I play stuff similar to August Burns Red, Periphery, Miss May I, Avenged Sevenfold etc.

Thank you guys so much!
 
#2
Dustin from August Burns Red records on a warwick corvette $$ through a sansamp rbi. you can get a similiar tone with a stingray bass and save some money. recording or live, im finding out more and more everyday that my new sansamp bddi is the key to trying to achieve the post-hardcore/metalcore tone. I can believe I waited so long to get one
 
#7
This is the best heavy metal pickup:
 

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It really depends on the sound you want. I have all kinds of basses with all different brands of pickups and different configurations and they all work fantastically.

For aftermarket pickups form the "big" companies, I happen to like DiMarzio and EMG. I've tried to like SD, but they never seem to jive with me. There is plenty of boutique stuff out there as well.

Can I ask, with all due respect, why are you making a custom bass if you don't really know what you want?
 
#18
well now that the peanut gallery is gone. time for some real advise.:D

since this is a pickup thread ima stick to mainly pick ups not the amps but i do recommend GK for metal

i can barely hear the bass players from ABR and periphery:hiding:.

i love the Miss May I bass sound in this song



my guess it would be cranked mids. i heard they used a fender MM jazz bass.
i think the marcus miller jazz basses have N3 pickups (someone please confirm?:help:)


EMG's cut mids last thing you want to do in the type of music your looking to do:scowl:

but the secret to cutting trough in metal or hardcore in general is mids. the guitarists scoop them you boost the hell out of them :D

with all that being said I'm looking for pick ups with lots of mids, growl and bite with a nice nice top end. this kid might also be interested in the same pair i am:help:.

stay metal:bassist::bassist::bassist: \m/
 
#19
\m/cliffB\m/ said:
well now that the peanut gallery is gone. time for some real advise.:D

since this is a pickup thread ima stick to mainly pick ups not the amps but i do recommend GK for metal

i can barely hear the bass players from ABR and periphery:hiding:.

i love the Miss May I bass sound in this song



my guess it would be cranked mids. i heard they used a fender MM jazz bass.
i think the marcus miller jazz basses have N3 pickups (someone please confirm?:help:)


EMG's cut mids last thing you want to do in the type of music your looking to do:scowl:

but the secret to cutting trough in metal or hardcore in general is mids. the guitarists scoop them you boost the hell out of them :D

with all that being said I'm looking for pick ups with lots of mids, growl and bite with a nice nice top end. this kid might also be interested in the same pair i am:help:.

stay metal:bassist::bassist::bassist: \m/
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yeah thats pretty much the standard scooped metal bass tone these days, im seeing them on the 27th pretty excited. I want to know if a bongo would make a big difference from a music man HH sound wise playing metal :bassist:
 

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