What is your opinnion of these pickups?
Anyone have any experience with 'em?
How do they compare to the JB, or the Screaming Demon?
I heard they're pretty hot with a heavy bottom end.
I like a really nice warm sound, a la classic rockers such as AC/DC, but with more distortion.
I guess my dream tone would be something like a combination of Randy Rhoads on Blizzard of Ozz, Dime on VDOP, Angus Young on AC/DC Live, and Jon Shaffer on Horror Show.

Gibons Burstbucker 3

Randy and Dime have like opposite tones.

no shit..

dime = scoopy buzzsaw s.s. grind...

Randy = midrange heavy hotrodded marshall gnarl.

an attempt to mix the two would be a challenge, and end with wack ass results.

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No shit? Well exactly, I was tryin to fucking get that fact to him.

I'm afraid the sad truth is Dime never actually played with his own lame a ass sig pickups. I guess he thought he might be able to tell a true fan as someone that didn't use those. Not bad for someone just starting to play guitar for 2 months though.

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i almost bought one... then i played on it. Very very thin sounding, thats really the only way i can describe it...

get the real deal.. http://www.billlawrence.com/

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Hell yeah. Bill Lawrence is my hero, man. I got his picture on the wall, and I worship it every day.
I understand Dime and Randy had very different tones. What I mean by Dime's tone is just the way those power chords sound really pronounced and massive. His tone on Vulgar is just awesome. The chords just sound really full and shit. Whereas on Trendkill, some of the songs sound really weak, and are missing that heavy bottom end. It's like it's just highs with very little lows and no mids.
I really love Randy's tone on Blizzard of Ozz, it's fucking great. I know that Randy used Marshalls whereas Dime used Randalls, (on Vulgar, anyway), and that had a lot to do with their sound. I really like Marshalls, as I am in love with that vintage tone. I do plan to get a tube Marhall somewhere down the line, which will give me a reallly nice and warm tone, but right now, I"m looking for a good bridge pickup.
I checked out the sound bites for both the JB and the Screamin Deamon on Seymour Duncan's web site, and they both sound great, but they sound very simillar as well. The web site says that you have to listen to it on a good sound system to hear the difference between pickups, and my PC speakers are shit, which is probably why they sounded pretty much the same to me.
Dave Mustaine uses a JB, and I like his tone, but I wonder what the Screamin Deamon would be like as well. Do any of you guys have any experience with any of the two?
None of the guitars at my local Guitar Center have good Seymour Duncan pickups; they either come with stock pickups, (Gibson USA, Jackson, BC Rich, you get the drill), or EMG HZs. My guitar came with Duncan Designed pickups which sound great, but I'm thinking that if I get a better pickup for my Explorer, I can take out the Duncan Designed and put it in my Warlock which has stock BC Rich pickups.
Anyway, thanks for the advice guys, I doubt I will be getting a Dimebucker. The fact that Dime never played one is good enough reason to stay the fuck away from that shit.

get two amps. the randall and the marshall. get tham as close to the sounds that you like or of those that you like. then Y em and get both sounds at once. itd be like dime and randy playing at the same time......if only itd really sound like that.

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Someone has already posted you should get Bill Lawrence, all other posts about pickups are now meaningless, get the XL 500 > Seymour Duncan JB/Screaming Wiener pickups

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All of those are good tones, Shaffer and Dime's are some of my favorites. Its impossible to mix tones like that, there all so different.

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I don't wanna just rip off someone's tone and then mix it with someone else's. I just particularily like certain elements of these players' tones.
Anyway, back to my original question.
SD Screaming Demon and SD JB, which is better for playing old school metal?
Please post only if you have meaningful first hand experience related comments, or just type meaningless bullshit, like so many have before you.

Okay,

I don't have first hand experience, but if you lookin for old school metal sound like megadeth... I checked the ESP Dave Mustaine Sig Model and it has a JB in the bridge. Hope that helps.

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