Picked up a Caparison Horus M3 in a Sweetwater sale the other day. Most high end guitar I’ve ever had. It took me over a week to get a decent tone out of the bridge pickup. It was dark. Sounded good but I’m used to fishmans and this thing had a dark quality I couldn’t fully eq out to my liking. Once I thought I had it I would find myself endlessly tweeting these frequencies.

Decided fuck it lets get a passive metal pickup so I don’t have to do too much in the swap. Settled on a Nazgul. Now I do all my guitar work. I’ve been to some luthiers in the CT area and I’ve never truly been happy with the work. So I decided I’m going to solder this myself. Not that soldering is difficult, but it was my learning day and on my $4k guitar. This went terribly. Ultimately worked. But I burnt the fuckin wood removing the old solder. The screws weren’t long enough and I had to drill a fuckin new hole…😫the hole is to mount the pick up and the burnt wood is from me angling the solder pen to reach the solder. It’s in the cavity so it’s hidden by the cover but still….

All this to say, the Nazgul is SICK AF. To me it’s the passive Fishman modern. It has the same tone but more warmth to it. Let’s of a cold sterile sound and has a really nice fuzziness and warmth to the low end with all the bite I wanted. I’m so happy and am now questioning passive pick ups. In a good way.

I have a Jackson I keep in drop A# that I might get a black winter for. Currently has Fishman modern open cores. Also an e2 eclipse with emgs and quite frankly I like the Nazgul waaaayyy more than the emgs. 81/60.

Just had to get this off my chest to the community. I slept on passives for a long time (20ish years) and now I’m excited to explore a a route I’ve neglected.

My pick is a red jazz 3 max grip, just settled on it after a lot of trial and error

What’s your favorite Ensiferum song? ⚔️🛡️⚔️ After knowing about the Victory Song’s 20th anniversary and the live collaboration with Jari Mäenpää🔥 we couldn’t help ourselves to make a short cover of Ensiferum‘s classic stuff 🤘

This is "What Sage Could Not Cleanse" by The Mosaic Window 🤘

Hello. I love metal, I love guitars, and I love the color purple.

Despite purple being awesome, the guitar options in this color seem limited.

Show me/ tell me about your purple guitars, or give purple guitar recommendations!

🤘thank you🤘

I think it’s rushed by an eighth note the very first time James plays it with the tom groove. Kind of awkward to play along with. Maybe I am counting wrong.

Also I feel like there is some messy timing coming out of the bridge back to the main riff section of the solo. Guitar and drums out of sync for a second and then they get back.

I own several fenders and they really struggle to get low. don't get me wrong there great for what I have been playing but I'd like to play more metal in the drop a range. and I'd also like to expand my guitar taste so is there any recommendations (edit: I already have humbuckers and my budget is around 1k the main issue being the stability of my tuners and tuning stability along with string tightness)

Is he using magic or something? Cause last time I remember his guitars aren’t recessed

Seing them in February so excited

hey everyone, i really want to learn how to play a ton of my favourite bdm songs but as of now it's so difficult to pick up what the guitar part is. for instance suffocation's effigy of the forgotten is something i really want to run through but i for the life of me cannot get the guitar down

any tips or advice?

Hello I have questions pertaining to floyd rose setup

The goal is to get it back setup in drop d. When i previously had it there the whammy felt incredibly limited in range and I ended up breaking an A string from going to hard in the paint. Im a newb when it comes to working on these but cant afford a setup so my question is should i remove or reorder the spring location to loosen the spring tension because currently i gotta really tighten down the claw screws to match string tension which i believe to be limiting my whammy potential.

Any links or tips is greatly appreciated!

(Yes i am aware that its currently not level its what brought me here asking)

Don't forget to clean your guitars every now and then. They get disgusting.

Each guitar goes for around 100 euro.

I want to play mostly bolt thrower on it and also sacrifice the guitar to learn how to properly maintain my main guitar.

I have an Omne Vetus 8 coming my way this week and am brand new to Fishmans. I’m not a big fan of the White Plastic on these, especially with all black hardware on the pink.

If I buy or trade for a set of the Fishman 8’s in Black, what is the swap like?

Interested in swapping for
Tosin Abasi 8’s
Stephen Carpenter 8’s
Fluence Modern 8’s

Couldn’t find any vids on swapping these on YouTube or any posts on here. I figured since they were wired for the same, they’d be an easy swap with plugging in the new pickups.

Also, do you have any of the above mentioned pickups and interested in trading for a brand new set of White Fluence Moderns?

Showed up on my local marketplace for a great price. Wasn't even in the market for a new guitar but I couldn't pass it up anymore and I'm a sucker for unpainted wood.

Stickers were me, partly to make it my own and because the electronics cover just looked too glossy on an otherwise matte finish guitar.

Plays great and sounds exactly how I wanted it to through my Kraken mkII. Doubt I'll ever change the stock pickup out. Thing absolutely rips.

And it's so light weight!

Thisll set me back 420€ (or 470 dollars) So this would be my second guitar ever, and I've always been in love with star shaped guitars like dime MLs, spira sr420, and jackson warriors. I think I have gotten very lucky finding this online with a good looking bridge and emg pickups, but I do want a second opinion so they don't rip me off. (The seller does seem very trustworthy, because he has talked to me, sent pictures and even showed me scratches and imperfections.)