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Avid Open C Enthusiast, Aspiring Ghibli Wizard
So - long story short - I have an Ibanez Iron Label 8 string, and I hate EMGs. Tones on that guitar are impossible to dial in as satisfactorily as with my 5 other guitars.
It had the stock 808s, and now it has a 57-8 in the bridge, but I'm just not feeling it. Too saturated, too thick in the low end.
What my guitars with the best tones, imo, are my LTD H207, an Ash bodied, maple necked guitar with a DiMarzio CL/LF set, an Ibanez SZ520 (Mahogany body and neck, maple top) with a Drop Sonic/Air Norton set, and my Epiphone Explorer GT (mahogany body, maple neck) with a Bill Lawrence XL500L
So mostly, I'm looking for something tight, with snarly upper mids, and plenty of treble.
Obviously the first place I was looking was the new standards - Nazgul/Sentient, Ionizer, etc - I just wanted to see if anybody else had any suggestions. I'm just not at all satisfied with the way it sounds now with the EMGs.
It had the stock 808s, and now it has a 57-8 in the bridge, but I'm just not feeling it. Too saturated, too thick in the low end.
What my guitars with the best tones, imo, are my LTD H207, an Ash bodied, maple necked guitar with a DiMarzio CL/LF set, an Ibanez SZ520 (Mahogany body and neck, maple top) with a Drop Sonic/Air Norton set, and my Epiphone Explorer GT (mahogany body, maple neck) with a Bill Lawrence XL500L
So mostly, I'm looking for something tight, with snarly upper mids, and plenty of treble.
Obviously the first place I was looking was the new standards - Nazgul/Sentient, Ionizer, etc - I just wanted to see if anybody else had any suggestions. I'm just not at all satisfied with the way it sounds now with the EMGs.