[Shredder3906]

To start, My name is Nick, I have been playing guitar seriously for about two years, I have owned fourteen guitars, only two of them are of Kramer decent, one is a Focus 111s routed with Floyd Rose Special, then my second is the Kramer Pacer Classic, it has been Hot Rodded out so to speak, I have taken out all of the electronics, slapped in a Seymour Duncan 59' in the bridge with EVH 500K Low friction pot and nob. However I am not getting the high output that I like, I love the tone of the 59' but I want it meaner. Ballsier, so to speak. I have looked at two different Seymour Duncans but I am kind of afraid of what monster I could be getting myself into. The SH14 Custom 5 and the SH5 Custom, any advice would be lovely, and I apologize if this has already been talked about. Thank you for letting me join the community.

Oh and one last thing, I know you all can find the influence from where my Pacer derives from, but does it look too much like his? I want to be influenced by him, NOT BE HIM. Lol. You all know who he is. ;-)

Thanks everyone.


Oh and my 111s pre-Floyd Rose.

[Cú Chulainn]

did you do any research on the '59 and what sound did you hope to achieve when you got it?

[Shredder3906]

Honestly the 59's were a impulse buy at a local guitar shop, so no, I have had Duncans before, I liked them, but music styles have changed, and I would like something like the 59's but ballsier, and louder, more gain...

[Cú Chulainn]

Shredder3906, on 21 December 2012 - 11:32 PM, said:

Honestly the 59's were a impulse buy at a local guitar shop, so no, I have had Duncans before, I liked them, but music styles have changed, and I would like something like the 59's but ballsier, and louder, more gain...

oh, the 59s are supposed to be PAF replicas(wound on Gibsons old winders too ).
anyho...you won't get significantly more gain with just the pickup, maybe a stompbox or
just turning up the gain on your amp would take care of that?

the Custom is described as a PAF on steroids and although I haven't tried the Custom 5, I suspect it would
be in the same ballpark...only less steroids

but hey, Seymour Duncan makes a hybrid version of a '59 and a Custom (combined) so maybe that would
be something to look into?

[Shredder3906]

Cú Chulainn Thanks so much, you have been very helpful in my quest, now if only I can figure out a way of making my springs on my tremolo noisier...any suggestions?

[Cú Chulainn]

Why would you wanna make it noisier?

[Shredder3906]

Cú Chulainn, on 29 December 2012 - 10:23 AM, said:

Why would you wanna make it noisier?

Eddie Van Halen's intro on Runnin' With The Devil, he scrapes his pick against the tremolo springs and so I tried it, and I was able to make some pretty bad *** sounds.

[Mister Zero]

Shredder3906, on 10 January 2013 - 02:42 PM, said:

Eddie Van Halen's intro on Runnin' With The Devil, he scrapes his pick against the tremolo springs and so I tried it, and I was able to make some pretty bad *** sounds.

Eddie is scraping his pick on the strings behind the tune-o-matic bridge and in front of the stop bar.

He is using a Ibanez Destroyer (copy of a Gibson Explorer). There's no tremolo on that song at all.