luxxtone":3k703nyg said:
If you're guitar is still too dark with a Painkiller, you might actually want to go with a LOWER output pickup. Yes I said it...lower. As a pickup is wound hotter, it gets darker, more compressed with less highs. Now that isn't necessarily a bad thing, that's just what hotter pickups do. And I know BKP's are some of the most open and uncompressed high output pickups...but they still do compress and get darker when they get that hot, just a lot less than other brands.
A lower output pickup will be brighter, with less compression and greater chime and note separation. Especially if you're getting an shit ton of gain out of your amp. Many times hot pickups thru super high gain amps can make your tone sound smaller. I hear it all the time at our shop.
If you want to stick with BKP, try the Emerald.
+1
I've always heard the Painkillers are ultra tight so if they're muddy I'd definitely try something low output. I've been gravitating towards the lower output stuff and my tone is bigger, tighter, & clearer than the hotter stuff I had. Not to say hot can't be really cool. Gotta love the BK Ceramic Warpig. Anyway, if low output doesn't work I'd sell the axe. Some of the boomiest guitars I've played have been mahogany and that can lead down an aggravating, never ending pickup quest when you want a guitar that just just doesn't have "it" to be tight and crisp. Guitars like that can turn to mud really quick with a hot pickup or a pickup that's overly fat in the lows or mids. I had a mahogany axe that I eventually sold because no matter what pickups I had in there it was just mud. I had to boost all my amps with the this guitar to get the clarity & tightness I needed. If not, mud city. With my other axes I didn't have to boost at all. It sucked because it played like a dream, but it was mud central for the types of tones I I like. Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there.
!Is it a Bridge PK?Anyway,i have one in my PRS Standart (all Mahogany) and it's everything but "dark & muddy" ..
