Rob Halford still has his voice!
The second concert I ever went to was Iron Maiden and Judas Priest circa 1981. It was awesome.
First concert ever was Motorhead backing up Ozzy.
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The second concert I ever went to was Iron Maiden and Judas Priest circa 1981. It was awesome.
First concert ever was Motorhead backing up Ozzy.
Lol... Based on this vid... I'd say that Rob Halford in his late 60's could out-sing most in their 20's and 30's
No kidding! Good stuff.
I still have some metal in me. Titanium screws from a bad skiing accident.
No kidding! Good stuff.
I still have some metal in me. Titanium screws from a bad skiing accident.
That's not heavy metal!
I'm not fan of In This Moment or even this song but it is from a 2018 release and shows that Mr. Halford clearly still has it
This is a couple of years older but is much heavier, for those that enjoy that kind of thing
It's only a visual problem, the adjustable polepieces can be moved to give the right tone and string output balance.
Nope, this you for yourself with an Allen key. They're a little sticky to move at first due to a wax agent, then they're easy to tweak. Higher means more output from a given pole.
Best approach is to adjust the overall pickup height first with all the polepieces flush with their rings. Raise the neck pickup until you start to get magnetic interference warbling of the tone with that pickup soloed when you play the highest frets. Then lower it until the warbling just disappears. Then raise the bridge pickup until you get about the same volume as the neck pickup when each is soloed. [Again check for magnetic interference. You may want to lower the bridge pickup depending on what blend sound you want with the pickup switch in the middle position.] You can do some overall balancing of output across the strings by tilting a pickup a bit. [Closer is louder.] *Finally* you can balance the output from individual strings by tweaking the polepieces for those strings. Essentially each string should be equally loud with a given pickup.
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This is the correct method.
You may want to be sure that you add a little air space if you tend to dig in.
Well it's not heavy metal, but I suppose that it'll have to do!No kidding! Good stuff.
I still have some metal in me. Titanium screws from a bad skiing accident.
Plus one on air space. I have to keep my pups low because of the heavy gauge strings and digging in
I agree with jmlee, it's best to adjust them yourself if you're reasonably handy. I've found a pickup height and polepiece adjustment scheme that reliably gives me my fave L2000 tone, they don't come from the factory set that way.
They sound good with the factory setup, just not how I want mine to sound.
I'll admit that I spend a completely stupid amount of time tweaking my instruments to get all they can give me. I should have mentioned—dare I make it worse—that if you change string variety, you really should do all this again. I just redid the pickup setup on my LB100 as I changed from D'Addario XLs to Chromes to La Bella flats, and there was quite a bit of variation due to the differing amount of magnetic material presented to the pickups by the various string diameters, compositions etc. If you stick with a particular string type, the pickups can stay in place as you exchange sets. I play with quite a light touch on electric, maybe to compensate for the digging in on upright, so I don't get the problem of lowering pickup heights for a heavy touch. As the pickups get lowered, there's not only a loss of gain but also brightness and detail.
Yeah, the Ti6Al4V used in orthopaedic screws would be considered a light alloy. I don't think there's a corresponding musical genre unless it's this:
