Members DTrane Posted July 4, 2011 Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 How do you like it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wrongnote85 Posted July 4, 2011 Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 i haven't but i've got an ebuddy that has. he likes it a lot and has posted up some really good tones with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DTrane Posted July 4, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 what kind of music does he play? I guess it would be like a Delonge strat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 My kid has a strat with one. It's a grinder, for sure. Sounds good. Not the best jazzer I've played, though. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mhuxtable Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 Blink 182 did it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ZeroCool7 Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 Probably a lot of the Heavy Metal guitarists like Blink 182. Very hi output ceramic pickup for the heavy metal. With the right setting you could be like these guys: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wrongnote85 Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 naw, i know the blink strat had one, but this was a MIM strat mod job he had. he was playing nevermore type {censored} on it if i recall correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DTrane Posted July 5, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 naw, i know the blink strat had one, but this was a MIM strat mod job he had. he was playing nevermore type {censored} on it if i recall correctly. yeah, I read he played with a tele baritone neck too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members *BLEEP* Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 I would totally suggest trying out a guitar that has an Invader. I have (the Delonge Strat) and quickly found it to be a one trick pony pickup for single note distortion lead playing. Basically, the Invader sounds like unmitigated crap if you try to play chords at *any* amp setting. It's dark and a bit fugly sounding when you back off the overdrive into clean territory. The one thing I have learned since sampling various high output humbuckers is that all you *really* need for single note distortion lead playing is an amp capable of creating the correct type of overdrive distortion for this sort of music and a mildly overwound humbucker. The humbucker can have either AlNiCo5 magnet or a ceramic magnet (I tend to favour a ceramic for this sort of tone), but too many windings (ohms) just sucks the life out of a pickup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MyEmergency Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 I would totally suggest trying out a guitar that has an Invader. I have (the Delonge Strat) and quickly found it to be a one trick pony pickup for single note distortion lead playing. Basically, the Invader sounds like unmitigated crap if you try to play chords at *any* amp setting. It's dark and a bit fugly sounding when you back off the overdrive into clean territory. The one thing I have learned since sampling various high output humbuckers is that all you *really* need for single note distortion lead playing is an amp capable of creating the correct type of overdrive distortion for this sort of music and a mildly overwound humbucker. The humbucker can have either AlNiCo5 magnet or a ceramic magnet (I tend to favour a ceramic for this sort of tone), but too many windings (ohms) just sucks the life out of a pickup. I guess this is why tone is so subjective, I perceive the invader as a very great sounding pickup for all rhythm styles, but slightly lacking in good leads.... but still an all around great pickup, I put it in almost all of my guitars for several years and just in the past year stopped putting them in guitars, but that was mainly a change in musical style, not because I thought it sounded badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members *BLEEP* Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 I guess this is why tone is so subjective... In all honesty, since this was a guitar in a store, I was not able to lower the pickup. Some of the dissonance may have diminished if the pickup had been lowered. Nonetheless, I've never heard 3+ note chords sound so weird -- full of odd sounding intermodulations. I tried the Delonge Strat (pictured below) with various amps and it sounded similar no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 I would love to try this pickup in parallel, but really, as dumb as this might sound, I find this pickup to look a little too "extreme," and therefore unsuitable for my tastes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ZeroCool7 Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 I would love to try this pickup in parallel, but really, as dumb as this might sound, I find this pickup to look a little too "extreme," and therefore unsuitable for my tastes. Thats why it would work well with this kind of band: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cephus Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 I had one in a kramer stratty guitar. Mine was split/tapped. the single coil sound was actually pretty bright. The biggest problem for me was that I didn't think it worked well with single coils. It was neck, middle BRIDGE. It was really midrangey and out of balance. If I had the amp set to get a nice sound from the invader, then the singles sounded really nasally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DTrane Posted July 6, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 6, 2011 Im considering it cuz my strat is kinda bright and thought a darker pickup would sound good. I wont be be getting one for awhile. MF is outta stock. Im gonna look for a used one on CL or Ebay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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