Hey all, some of you may remember that I had plans to switch my strat to an HH a little while back. Well, I bought all the parts, the pickguard, knobs, pots and a switch. Aaand then I went on a relatively expensive vacation and realised I couldn't justify purchasing pickups that month without losing my ability to pay rent or eat. In the meantime I started listening to clips of the SH-16 and I've really fallen in love, it sounds super clear, versatile and pretty much everything I'm looking for in a pickup (and should be a solid change from the honkiness and weird compression of my PATB-3... great pickup that I'm just absolutely sick of).
So what neck humbucker would suit it? It would be replacing a Cool Rails (Im changing pickguards). In my band I mainly play jazz, soul, a bit of blues. My own compositions are sort of.. ambient stuff which kind of ranges from Bill Frisell to Isis influenced things, and prog in the vein of Opeth and Porcupine Tree. I'm looking for something in the vintage-ish range that can sing under a lot of gain too. It's going in an Alder Hardtail strat with a rosewood fretboard. Guitar is pretty even sounding, but being a hardtail it sounds a lot more solid and less 'bouncy' than a regular routed strat. Therein lies the problem; it means that scooped sounding neck pickups end up sounding extremely dead in this guitar (as did the cool rails, I noticed as I started playing with gain sounds again) so the 59n is definitely out, I'm definitely looking for something more lively. I also don't really have the facilities or equipment at all here for mag swaps, nor is there a simple way to get them from where I live so I'd prefer a stock pickup suggestion if at all possible.
So what neck humbucker would suit it? It would be replacing a Cool Rails (Im changing pickguards). In my band I mainly play jazz, soul, a bit of blues. My own compositions are sort of.. ambient stuff which kind of ranges from Bill Frisell to Isis influenced things, and prog in the vein of Opeth and Porcupine Tree. I'm looking for something in the vintage-ish range that can sing under a lot of gain too. It's going in an Alder Hardtail strat with a rosewood fretboard. Guitar is pretty even sounding, but being a hardtail it sounds a lot more solid and less 'bouncy' than a regular routed strat. Therein lies the problem; it means that scooped sounding neck pickups end up sounding extremely dead in this guitar (as did the cool rails, I noticed as I started playing with gain sounds again) so the 59n is definitely out, I'm definitely looking for something more lively. I also don't really have the facilities or equipment at all here for mag swaps, nor is there a simple way to get them from where I live so I'd prefer a stock pickup suggestion if at all possible.
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