hello. i'm a long-time duncan user and due to various conversations on this board recently about magnet swapping, i gave it a try over the weekend in an attempt to fatten up a rather bright carvin dc127 (mahongany neck-thru). i had the c5 in the bridge and although it's great sounding pickup, there just aren't enough mids and the highs are too harsh in this axe. (great bass response, though. i love the bottom end on this pup.) so i swapped the alnico 2 mag from a pearly gates neck pup with the alnico 5 from the c5 making myself a cc hoping it would warm up the tone some. the mids on this pup are superb, but all bottom end that i really liked disappeared. basically, i'd like there to be much less of a tonal variation between this guitar and my other carvin sc90 (also all mahogany with a jb bridge and pg w/a5 in the neck). the sc90 is a pretty boomy sounding axe (i play through a mesa trem-o-verb... hard/heavy rock, by the way). and although i don't want them to sound exactly the same, i'd like the dc127 to have a similar "boom" to the tone, which it just doesn't have at the moment. this guitar is a string-thru and has a bit less wood than the sc90, which has a tune-o-matic bridge. can anybody recommend a fat and loud bridge pup with mids & highs comparable to the cc or jb (preferably with an alnico 5 mag), but with a bottom end like the c5 and retains chord clarity with relatively high gain? or do i need to call the custom shop for something like this?
thanks in advance!
thanks in advance!
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