How to equip a strat copy to play metal?

Question

Okay I just recieved a vintage guitar to be my main as I continue to learn

Okay Dokey, what we have here (from what i know its vintage)

Its a Charvel/Jackson Cx291 Electric guitar

I have no idea what the origanle price could have been, the onley site i could find was in spanish, but they wanted about 15,000 for a used one

Made in 1991 (discontinued)

alrighty

I would like to know what to do? Put a symore Duncan hotrails as the bridge????

Answer 1

First off that spanish site meant 15,000 Mexican Peso's not $15,000 US Dollars; In equivalent your guitar is probably worth something like $700 USD. There are probably only about 10 guitars out there in the world that are worth $15,000, and they're all Ibanez's, Gibson's, and Fenders, played by famous people like Steve Vai, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, BB King, etc.

Now on to your question. I've seen your model a few times, it's not great for metal. If you wanted to have a guitar that plays metal very well, you should have gotten an Ibanez, a BC Rich, or a Dean, because those brands will accompany that sound.

But, back on track, I'd say put on a combination of EMG 81 on the bridge, and an EMG 83 on the neck. That's the "Metallica sound" styled configuration. Although, to use humbuckers, you are going to need a custom pickgaurd, which run close to $20.

Hope this helped!

-Nakayama Akira

Answer 2

yeah maybe change the bridge or the pick-ups. get a heavy metal amp and get a distortion pedal.