I may have gotten myself into an impossible situation here. I have really been enjoying shredding on 7 and 8 string guitars lately, so when an older 9-string Ibanez RG showed up at GC for a good price, I grabbed it. The guitar is fantastic, but the pickups are god awful. I mean, if you were working against the corporation you worked for, trying to drive them to bankruptcy, you could not have invented anything better than these ridiculously bad pickups. They emphasize all the worst aspects, mitigate none of the usual extended range guitar problems, are absolute flub on the low end and clangy and ice-pick-in-the-ear bright on the top end (almost microphonic sounding). I can usually live with most Ibanez Pickups for a while, but I can't even stand to plug this guitar in with these horrid pickups.
Ok, rant over. I obviously need some new pickups for this beast, but who even makes 9 string pickups any more? I see some older 9-strings with Bare Knuckle Pickups, but they don't list any now. I didn't really want to go Active EMGs, because there is no battery compartment. Am I just out of luck? I'm not really into the detuned Djent thing. I am just an old-school 1980's shredder, and also play some blues and rock. In my 7 and 8 string guitars, I use Dimarzio Ionizers, PAF 7's, and Blaze Custom/Blaze neck, and had a Black Winter set for a while that I liked.
Anyone know where I could find some 9 string Humbuckers, new or used?
Ok, rant over. I obviously need some new pickups for this beast, but who even makes 9 string pickups any more? I see some older 9-strings with Bare Knuckle Pickups, but they don't list any now. I didn't really want to go Active EMGs, because there is no battery compartment. Am I just out of luck? I'm not really into the detuned Djent thing. I am just an old-school 1980's shredder, and also play some blues and rock. In my 7 and 8 string guitars, I use Dimarzio Ionizers, PAF 7's, and Blaze Custom/Blaze neck, and had a Black Winter set for a while that I liked.
Anyone know where I could find some 9 string Humbuckers, new or used?
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