6 string pickup shootout. No bull, no frills.

[lattjeful]

Re read the whole thread becasue I was curious about the alt 8 and damn I really want to try one

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who goes through and rereads this thread LOL. Trying to decide between a Dominion and a Satchur8 for a baritone build since I like the Dominion a lot, but the Satchur8 has this really cool almost P90-ish grind to it and wanted to hear how it held up tuned down.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

Pig90 + Granophyre plugin:


Final thoughts on Warpig 90:
The Warpig is already a savage, nasty pickup. The Pig90 is even nastier, since all the fury of the regular warpig is concentrated into a single coil hp90 format. The low end is big and punchy. The mids are relatively balanced and not overly modern/quacky, so the pickup can cover a huge swath of tones with minimal tweaking. There is a nice grindy quality to the midrange when playing extreme metal/trem picking. The highs are very present but not icepicky imo. Overall clarity is better than the regular warpig at the expense of increased noise floor (which is a nonissue with a decent noisegate). Cleans are pretty good. I've been saying this for years but HP90s are the shit for extreme metal, and the Pig90 is one of the standouts among the HP90s I've used in this guitar.


The contact pads on the tripleshot ring I was using for the bridge position have broken off, so I have to wait for another tripleshot ring before I can install the miracle man bridge.

 

[A.JohnHayes]

Sounds so good!

 

[Blahblahblahblah]

I just put one of these in my Tele and it doesn’t sound like this. I must have done something wrong

Pig90 + Granophyre plugin:


Final thoughts on Warpig 90:
The Warpig is already a savage, nasty pickup. The Pig90 is even nastier, since all the fury of the regular warpig is concentrated into a single coil hp90 format. The low end is big and punchy. The mids are relatively balanced and not overly modern/quacky, so the pickup can cover a huge swath of tones with minimal tweaking. There is a nice grindy quality to the midrange when playing extreme metal/trem picking. The highs are very present but not icepicky imo. Overall clarity is better than the regular warpig at the expense of increased noise floor (which is a nonissue with a decent noisegate). Cleans are pretty good. I've been saying this for years but HP90s are the shit for extreme metal, and the Pig90 is one of the standouts among the HP90s I've used in this guitar.


The contact pads on the tripleshot ring I was using for the bridge position have broken off, so I have to wait for another tripleshot ring before I can install the miracle man bridge.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

I just put one of these in my Tele and it doesn’t sound like this. I must have done something wrong

Try putting it in a baritone in BEADF#B

 

[Blahblahblahblah]

Try putting it in a baritone in BEADF#B

I was just making a joke about you being a lot better than me. I do have it in a baritone in A standard

 

[bigcupholder]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who goes through and rereads this thread LOL. Trying to decide between a Dominion and a Satchur8 for a baritone build since I like the Dominion a lot, but the Satchur8 has this really cool almost P90-ish grind to it and wanted to hear how it held up tuned down.

I can't compare it to the Dominion and I only have it in D standard, but I can give a vote of confidence to the Satchur8. The review in this thread led me to buy it and I've been really enjoying it for a couple years now. It has a really nice growl to the mids.

 

[Marked Man]

I think the TX system is one of the most underrated of the entire EMG lineup. I've got it in my hotrod Tele and it can do the traditional thing with sparkle, but still hangs no matter how much you crank the gain. I just use the normal gain I would for my HB guitars and it's fine, although with the characteristic biting Tele edge. I'll take the TX set all day over the original EMG T set.