Tahoebrian5
Fractal Fanatic
Anyone have any ideas on how to make a vintage hot pup sound/feel more like a modern pup ? No matter what I do my guitar with vintageish pups just doesnt have the same crunchiness that modern pups seem to have.
I disagree on the bass part, especially for metal core. You probably even want to lower the bass and compress itsI would put a GEQ at the front of the chain and crank the Bass +6, mids just +1 if at all and the Highs +4-5ish.
That basically the method I used to get the PRS 85/15 pickups to go from classy blues rock to high gain metal core style.
And it's never going to have those characteristics because your pickups probably have alnico magnets in them. You'll never achieve the tone that a ceramic magnet puts out. Simple as that.Anyone have any ideas on how to make a vintage hot pup sound/feel more like a modern pup ? No matter what I do my guitar with vintageish pups just doesnt have the same crunchiness that modern pups seem to have.
I disagree on the bass part, especially for metal core. You probably even want to lower the bass and compress its range. For that particular style of music, you'd want to add the bass after the gain stage.
You could use the (multiband-)compressor, the expander etc. at the beginning of your chain.Tonematching pickups and guitars really doesn't change the way a pickup compresses the sound waves. So you can't simulate a pickup.
I'm not sure if there is a consensus. It depends on what your definition of a "modern voiced pickup" is.The ceramic pups just seem to have this crunchy sizzle that no amount of eq seems to capture. I wonder if the multi band compressor would help get closer. So what is the consensus? Compress the bass freq's?
Buy a pickup with ceramic magnets.So what is the consensus?
Buy a pickup with ceramic magnets.
That's an excellent approach. You can do some sweeps until you find your sweet spot.You can add a high shelf, starting with Q around 3, gain max, around 4kHz, maybe you'll find a good spot to get some sizzle back, though it might not be what you're looking for.