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The coolest guitar is the one you play like a badass. The "fake" thing to do would be to go around worrying about what everyone thought of your guitar. Single coils sound more bright and jangly, usually aren't as high output, and of course they don't cancel hum, so you'll have to work harder to get a traditional "metal" sound out of them.

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The coolest guitar is the one you play like a badass. The "fake" thing to do would be to go around worrying about what everyone thought of your guitar. Single coils sound more bright and jangly, usually aren't as high output, and of course they don't cancel hum, so you'll have to work harder to get a traditional "metal" sound out of them.
My Gibson came with ceramic single coil pickups, and I love them. They grab everything, giving you a really full and earthy sounding tone, which you can obviously manipulate to sound a number of ways. It stands to reason that the more sound you grab, the more you have to work with and make it your own. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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My Gibson came with ceramic single coil pickups, and I love them. They grab everything, giving you a really full and earthy sounding tone, which you can obviously manipulate to sound a number of ways. It stands to reason that the more sound you grab, the more you have to work with and make it your own. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Single coils? What, like the P-90s? Which guitar do you have?
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Gibson Les Paul Trad Pro, not sure he model of pickups, they came standard. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Definitely humbuckers in that guitar, though they do come with a coil tap that allows you to use them as single coils. I haven't played through those pickups, but they look sweet - "vintage hot", I guess you could say, which means they aren't as high output as a lot of modern pickups, which lets you keep that high end clarity.
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Definitely humbuckers in that guitar' date=' though they do come with a coil tap that allows you to use them as single coils. I haven't played through those pickups, but they look sweet - "vintage hot", I guess you could say, which means they aren't as high output as a lot of modern pickups, which lets you keep that high end clarity.[/quote'] They're excellent for doom, I'm not sure how they would do with death metal or prog. I dig the sound they give me for Capela Dos Ossos, I know it's not a traditional thrash tone, but it does give me a cool old school black metal tone ala Samael, Master's Hammer, Celtic Frost, etc... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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What do you tune to? You won't really get a classic thrash tone in a lower tuning. With slightly lower-output pickups like yours, you'd get a great old-school tone tuned in E or Eb through a Maxon overdrive into a JCM 800. Not to say that's the sound you're going for, just that there are a lot of elements that go into getting that particular sound. I know I'm in the minority, but I actually really dug the JCM 900 and even some of the 2000s. The 2000 clean tone with my Gibson was amazing. You play a Crate, right?

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I own a. Gibson. Guitar in fact a epiphone. I have three single coil pickup Strat. Yep Gibson made a start under the epiphone. Name brought. When I was like 14 still have it
I've seen similar body shapes made by Gibson, but every guitar I've played from them has that same neck angle (which I like). My Steinberger is like most Fenders and Jacksons that I've played, the neck comes out straight from the body, and it's not as comfortable for me.
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It's got tuning knobs built into the bridge. Honestly it's the quickest and most stable tuning system I've used. I had a Hohner Steinberger-licensed guitar when I was a teenager, and I liked it, but this one's even better. I'd probably get another one if I could afford it, it's one of the best guitars I've played for my style.

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A seven might be fun, but I prefer six-strings. I have no use for an eight-string; I make some pretty big chord shapes and the width of the fretboard would interfere with that, not to mention that I'd have more strings to avoid. Those guitars seem a lot more suitable for people who play single-note progressions, at least in metal.

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You see plenty of seven-strings in DM, but it's almost always "detuned speedy chug riff" on the lowest two or three strings and then "meedly sweepy solo thing" on the highest three strings. I firmly believe that half the kids I've seen with seven-strings could take off one or two strings in the middle and no-one in the audience would know the difference. Jeff Loomis plays a seven-string right, that dude is a brilliant guitarist. I like tuning low. My baritone is actually in baritone standard B right now - the newest Black Harvest album is mostly in C. I like getting the brightness out of my tone, my vocals and drums - I've never missed not having a "high E" string or some such, and really all that would get me in range would be an extra fourth on top of what I've already got. Those five high notes aren't worth having to deal with another string, at least for my playing style. I may at some point get a seven to mess around with, if I ever have "extra" money (hah!). Eight, some of my friends have them, I've played them, don't like them. I'd rather just play bass.

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