12-07-2014, 11:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-07-2014, 12:26 PM by youngthrasher9.)
For those of you who haven't tried one yet, if you like high output bridge pickups you owe it to yourself to try one.
I put this pickup in my Ibanez SIR27FD. It's a mahogany bodied S series body style Iron Label 7 string, with a maple/bubinga neck, a rosewood fretboard and a fixed bridge.
It's like this: if the EMG 81 and the Seymour Duncan Black Winter met and had a bastard child who ended up being raised by Larry Dimarzio and Cthulu, the D Activator would be that bastard child.
At first, I was under the impression that this pickup was medium high output. After discovering that the level knob on my boost was a 1/3 of the way down from where I usually keep it, I can say I was sorely mistaken. The D Activator burns villages and laughs about it.
It's that hot, and it's tight in a very refined yet ball shatteringly, brutally beautiful way.
I've played just about every form of metal I could think with with this guitar to put the D Activator to the test, and I can say it does it all with some minor EQ tweaks in between. It did particularly well for: Death, Black, Thrash, Prog, and pretty much every -core variation I could care to remember.
I play a lot of Death Metal and Blackened Death Metal so the D Activator puts a grin on my face every time.
I'm very excited to have found a pickup for my new 7 string, and I couldn't be happier with it.
I put this pickup in my Ibanez SIR27FD. It's a mahogany bodied S series body style Iron Label 7 string, with a maple/bubinga neck, a rosewood fretboard and a fixed bridge.
It's like this: if the EMG 81 and the Seymour Duncan Black Winter met and had a bastard child who ended up being raised by Larry Dimarzio and Cthulu, the D Activator would be that bastard child.
At first, I was under the impression that this pickup was medium high output. After discovering that the level knob on my boost was a 1/3 of the way down from where I usually keep it, I can say I was sorely mistaken. The D Activator burns villages and laughs about it.
It's that hot, and it's tight in a very refined yet ball shatteringly, brutally beautiful way.
I've played just about every form of metal I could think with with this guitar to put the D Activator to the test, and I can say it does it all with some minor EQ tweaks in between. It did particularly well for: Death, Black, Thrash, Prog, and pretty much every -core variation I could care to remember.
I play a lot of Death Metal and Blackened Death Metal so the D Activator puts a grin on my face every time.
I'm very excited to have found a pickup for my new 7 string, and I couldn't be happier with it.