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Meshuggah is one of the greatest metal bands ever. Period.


I have an Epiphone Explorer tuned to C just to play metal on, then a strat for everything else. I almost bought a 7-string Jackson before deciding on the Explorer.


nO-One I had no idea Devin Townsend played a Telecaster.... That just seems weird to me.

[Titan]

not a big fender guy. but all i play is my brothers fender squier that everyone has since im a cheap bitch.

I want this one http://www.guitarcenter.com/Schecter-Damien-FR-Electric-Guitar-513103-i1147996.gc ..but i can never go through with buying it

I have a Schecter Gryphon. Its like the Damien\'s brptjer. Mine plays really well. I\'d like to switch out the pickups to Seymour Duncans. The pickups I have are Seymour Designed. They aren\'t bad but aren\'t great either. Thing I like most about my Gryphon is the coil tap. I can split my humbuckers into single coils. I\'m not sure if my tone knob works. To change the tone I have to go all the way to either side, which I don\'t think is right.

[nO-One]

nO-One I had no idea Devin Townsend played a Telecaster.... That just seems weird to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLb7sj8ErS0
it\'s a Telecaster with EMG\'s but a Tele non the less. He uses it more for DTB than for the SYL stuff.

Meshuggah is one of the greatest metal bands ever. Period.

If that\'s true, it\'s a perfect argument for me to use when I tell people that I don\'t like metal.

Thanks for that.

[Viper_Fujax]

If that\'s true, it\'s a perfect argument for me to use when I tell people that I don\'t like metal.

Thanks for that.

its a different kind of metal, and an opinion. The off-beat stuff is not liked by the majority of people. I personally love gojira, not that they use that same technique anywhere near as much as meshuggah. while meshuggah i have a hard time listening to more than 6 of their songs at a time. But friends of mine that love meshuggah would say the same thing as luke

Meshuggah aint for everyone....


If you like that style of metal though, they are the top of the heap as far as I\'m concerned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLb7sj8ErS0
it\'s a Telecaster with EMG\'s but a Tele non the less. He uses it more for DTB than for the SYL stuff.

I\'m looking for some new pickups for my Explorer. He says he\'s uing 81\'s but does he mean 81\'85\'s?


And man, he can sweep like a motherfucker.... I wish I could do that.

I\'m looking for some new pickups for my Explorer. In that Devin Townsend  video he says he\'s using 81\'s, but does me mean 81/85\'s?

[nO-One]

I\'m looking for some new pickups for my Explorer. He says he\'s uing 81\'s but does he mean 81\'85\'s?


And man, he can sweep like a motherfucker.... I wish I could do that.

That he can, and the thing he plays in the Wrong Side demo... he actually sings the chorus while playing that... mad skills there.

I think he uses two 81\'s and rarely the neck pickup. For the SYL stuff í uses Horizon based ESP\'s, basically the same stuff Stephen Carpenter from Deftones uses, so he doesn\'t have a neck pickup in those but two pickups very close together.

I\'ve never heard of someone just using two 81\'s. Is that common?


Remember I\'m a drummer. This is all new to me.

[nO-One]

Two 81\'s are actually more common than 81 85 combo, although that one makes more sense since the 85\'s cleans are much better than the 81 can ever hope to achieve. My ESP Eclipse came with two 81\'s, I almost never use the neck pup though.

Also an 81 60 combo is pretty common, 81\'s pretty much are bridge only.

Gotcha.


I was gonna buy those Zakk Wylde EMG\'s.... But I\'m still researching.

[nO-One]

the Zakk Wylde\'s are basically a 81 89 set IIRC.

I\'d also consider Seymore Duncan Blackouts, they\'re hot but are supposed to sound a tad better than the EMG\'s.

You think putting those in an Explorer is something I can do myself?

[nO-One]

well EMG\'s are active, so you\'ll have to do some wiring for the batteries and such. It\'s more complex than putting in passives.