I've been looking a lot of different places for advice on new pickups, so I thought I might try the source.
I recently bought myself a nicer guitar, for the first time. I'm not exactly a dazzling virtuoso guitar player but I'm good enough that it doesn't limit me when composing and recording my own stuff, and for only 5 years of playing I'm decent. I fell in love with a schecter c1 elite, mostly because it came very close to the feel of prs, at a price I could afford. It's made of mahogony with a quilt maple top. The neck, according to the website is also mahogony but I would have guessed it for maple. It has a rosewood fingerboard as well- but I don't know if that affects tone. The neck is set, it is archtop, and the strings go through the body. Currently it has duncan designed humbuckers which don't sound terrible but are too bright, and horrid for metal.
My other guitar, an epiphone sg(very cheap one) has a set of emgs in it. I put those pickups in because A. I wanted a metal tone, and B. I didn't want the cheap wood to affect it. My biggest problem with those are also that they are much too bright sounding for jazzy leads. I am satisfied enough with those to keep that for a metal tone however.
Basically, I want a tone that will cut through the mix but isn't so bright it hurts the ears. I want it to be transparent, balanced, and unbelievably warm. This guitar will be used for work in metal, progressive rock ala pinkfloyd and king crimson, and jazz. It must also be able to achieve a good rhythm metal tone. As versatile as a PRS basically. It will be run with a peavy bandit(may try to mic with sm57) and into the computer with a behringer Vamp2, hopefully to be upgraded with a podxt very soon. Which pickups do you think would work best for me? I recently found the wcr pickup sight and loved the tone of the goodwood clips. I would hate to spend almost as much on pickups as the guitar but if those are right for it I might do it. need to sound decent with coil split as well. Is there a set of duncans you could recommend? once again- emphasis on WARMTH, balanced, not bright and not dull, and transparent.
Thanks
-Amir
I recently bought myself a nicer guitar, for the first time. I'm not exactly a dazzling virtuoso guitar player but I'm good enough that it doesn't limit me when composing and recording my own stuff, and for only 5 years of playing I'm decent. I fell in love with a schecter c1 elite, mostly because it came very close to the feel of prs, at a price I could afford. It's made of mahogony with a quilt maple top. The neck, according to the website is also mahogony but I would have guessed it for maple. It has a rosewood fingerboard as well- but I don't know if that affects tone. The neck is set, it is archtop, and the strings go through the body. Currently it has duncan designed humbuckers which don't sound terrible but are too bright, and horrid for metal.
My other guitar, an epiphone sg(very cheap one) has a set of emgs in it. I put those pickups in because A. I wanted a metal tone, and B. I didn't want the cheap wood to affect it. My biggest problem with those are also that they are much too bright sounding for jazzy leads. I am satisfied enough with those to keep that for a metal tone however.
Basically, I want a tone that will cut through the mix but isn't so bright it hurts the ears. I want it to be transparent, balanced, and unbelievably warm. This guitar will be used for work in metal, progressive rock ala pinkfloyd and king crimson, and jazz. It must also be able to achieve a good rhythm metal tone. As versatile as a PRS basically. It will be run with a peavy bandit(may try to mic with sm57) and into the computer with a behringer Vamp2, hopefully to be upgraded with a podxt very soon. Which pickups do you think would work best for me? I recently found the wcr pickup sight and loved the tone of the goodwood clips. I would hate to spend almost as much on pickups as the guitar but if those are right for it I might do it. need to sound decent with coil split as well. Is there a set of duncans you could recommend? once again- emphasis on WARMTH, balanced, not bright and not dull, and transparent.
Thanks
-Amir
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