[Metahedron]

Being a single background guitarist in an obscenely aggressive, experimental, drums and bass driven band, I have several matters to request the forums assistance with:

My primary 7's humbuckers are extremely unsatisfactory, and the neck PU is constantly disembodying due to a stripped tab, and I was curious as to what recommendations for replacements you could provide. It is a mahogany body 7-string Epiphone Les Paul in requirement of a bridge and neck humbucker providing a fat, dark, and rich hum bucker tonal quality with an abundance of bite primarily for rhythm and melody.

Additionally I am soon to purchase a 7 string with alder body wood likely to have another HH configuration. It is with this guitar's pickups that I am trying to achieve: a shrill, trebly, and LO FI tonality resemblant of Tom Morello(RATM/Audio Slave), Daniel Ash's(Bauhaus), Rowland S. Howard or Blixa Bargeld's(The Birthday Party), East Bay Ray's(The Dead Kennedys), or various like guitarists'(most of which using Fender: Telecasters, Jaguars, and/or Mustangs).

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Would coil tapping be recommended for this project, and if possible, could someone provide a description of coil tapping installation(links are always appreciated)?

My primary concerns are achieving the desired tones, cutting through aggressive slap bassist, and maintaining a magnetic field extremely capable of feedback, all with a unique voicing. In the near future I will be purchasing a new amp head to make my primary, which is liable to be a Marshall JCM 800(which I am not positive how to describe the equalization of). At this, I intend to further direct the signal into two separate guitar and bass cabinets. Mind you shred oriented recommendations have no applicability to my playing style. As a textural guitarist I perform muted strumming, funk, industrial, and flamenco influenced chording, with a fair amount of reliance upon chord definition, texture, and high contrast value through a wah pedal.
Please offer whatever advice or opinion you can.

[Metahedron]

To stipulate further these are the arrangements I am considering for the guitars previously described...

*#1 Les Paul(Mahogany):
**Neck: Dimarzio Tone Zone 7(Likely to Exchange)
**Bridge: Dimarzio Blaze 7 Neck(Likely to Exchange)
Liable candidate for Coil Splitting

*#2 Ibanez AX7221(Mahogany Body, Maple Neck):
**Neck: Seymour Duncan Jazz 7(Theoretical)
**Bridge: Seymour Duncan JB 7(Theoretical)
Liable candidate for piezo bridge and coil splitting

*#3 Stagemaster 7(Alder Body?, Maple Neck):
**Neck: Bare Knuckles(Custom)(seems resolved)
**Bridge: Bare Knuckles(Custom)(')
Coil Splitting & Floyd Rose I require a reliable 7 string Floyd Rose manufacturer to purchase a replacement from.

Do you imagine anyone here could offer guidance in this matter?

[z712]

There are thousands of threads like these dude. Just have a quick search and i'm sure you'll be able to find the answer to your question.

[Metahedron]

A statement relative to my mood(please ignore entirely.)
I definitely appreciate the courtesy of a response, but if that is all the forum can offer me, I'd rather have the thread deleted. It was an investment of detail and comprehension to try to accurately describe precisely what was desired with minimal experience; but if requesting more opinionatioin from other's experience was truly not meant to be, I'll have to request that a moderator delete this thread.

[Dormant]

Originally Posted by z712

There are thousands of threads like these dude. Just have a quick search and i'm sure you'll be able to find the answer to your question.

This response was not helpful at all, and is also completely untrue. There are not thousands of threads like this. In fact this is the first time I have seen anyone say anything like this. Most of the time it's 'I need some new pickups and I want a really original sound - kinda like John Petrucci - DSonic7/Blazes and Air Norton combo' (yawn )

What you are asking for in the main is quite different. The initial request regarding the Les Paul Epi is a standard one. I would probably recomend the standard - Seymour Duncan JB/Jazz combo, Dimarzio Evo/AirNorton combo, or my personal favourite Bareknuckle pickups. A bit more expensive but custom wound to your requirements (and rewound if you are still not happy with the sound), which may also be helpful for your 2nd guitar request. (www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk)

Coil Tapping. Sounds like a good idea for what you want. Quite surprised you couldn't have completed a cursory Google search yourself to find things like this but hey ho ... this is a link for a site that will give you wiring diagrams. You will need to buy push/pull pots. The wiring itself is very easy.

http://mediawebsource.com/guitar/coiltap.htm

Additionally I respect your ability to utilise the English language properly unlike a lot of people who so frequently spell things incorrectly on forums, but there were one or 2 things you wrote which I thought were a bit silly.

-Being in a 'frightfully agressive ... band' - bit Pride and Prejudice isn't it?

- The generally overdramatic tone of your responses. You seem a nice bloke but I just thought it was worth mentioning that because it made me laugh. Sorry I am not having a go at you I promise!

[Metahedron]

I have received infinite criticism for my manner in speech, but I can assure that it is only in good humor.

Regardless, I am extremely grateful for the advice...

As for the coil tapping, it looks as though I'll be substituting the tone pots(obsolete in my work) with toggle switches(or any relative switches), and reserving the remainder of the work for a tech.

The Epiphone Les Paul 7's pick ups have already been purchased, due to time constriction and a desire to experiment with reversed position Dimarzios'. If I find either of these dissatisfying I'll make the pickups available here first.

The second project being a tad less material, I may arrange to purchase Bare Knuckles, or something comparable. Unfortunately, I have one minor dilemma, finding their 7's. I can neither find them, nor does it seem likely that I may be aware of any pickups in their product list that fulfill my demands.
A mentionable 6 string humbucker that achieves the desired quality miraculously well is Fender's "Enforcer," if that may assist anyone.

[The Dark Wolf]

"infinite criticism", eh?

Any rate, I'm thinking Bare Knuckle will custom wind some pickups to your specs. See, the problem is, most people on this site aren't looking for a "lo fi" sound, so, we generally don't have much experience here. We usually want the best sounding pickups... not the worst. But if you contact Bareknuckle, and say, "Please, in your infinite wisdom and technical brilliance, wind me a pair of the absolutely shittiest, trebliest, god-awfulingest pickups for my 7-string that you concievably can" I'm sure they'll hook you up.

[Metahedron]

I thoroughly appreciate it, B'.

[The Dark Wolf]

That's one wierd ass picture, Homes.

[Metahedron]

Bootsy is a resplendent creature of truly infinite wisdom.

Might I add, as many will agree, the "best" pickups are only that to one's self.