Greetings. Need some advice from people a little more versed in the Seymour Duncan lineup than myself.
I have a guitar that I'm searching for pickups for, currently it has a Duality active set in it but that's the 3rd variety of active pickups I've tried in this guitar and I've decided it's time to rewire and go back to passive. I'm just not getting the sound from actives that I'm looking for. Guitar is a Schecter C-1 Platinum (Mahogany body, ebony fretboard, set neck) and the musical style I play is a mixture of classic doom metal and progressive rock. So I need a set that can do an authentic vintage crunch tone, while also having enough output for some really slow, heavy overdriven riffage. Clean sound is really important. This guitar is very dark and prone to being bass-heavy, so it needs a neck pickup that's really crystalline on the high end, but hopefully not incredibly thin in the process, needs to sound good playing jazz chords.
My idea:
Neck: Full Shred - neck - The description of this pickup on the website has peaked my curiosity as it sounds like it has the high-end I need. Whatever neck pickup I go with also needs to be able to handle some gain.
Bridge: Black Winter (or something else with a good boosted mid-range focus). My other guitar has a Full Shred trembucker bridge pickup and I love it dearly, but it's seriously mid-scooped, so I want this C-1 to fill in the midrange hole when I combine them together in a mix. I've watched a ton of those bridge comparison videos on youtube. Based solely on those I most liked the sound of these: Black Winter, Duncan Custom, Duncan Distortion, but I'm open to any and all suggestions!
Thanks!
I have a guitar that I'm searching for pickups for, currently it has a Duality active set in it but that's the 3rd variety of active pickups I've tried in this guitar and I've decided it's time to rewire and go back to passive. I'm just not getting the sound from actives that I'm looking for. Guitar is a Schecter C-1 Platinum (Mahogany body, ebony fretboard, set neck) and the musical style I play is a mixture of classic doom metal and progressive rock. So I need a set that can do an authentic vintage crunch tone, while also having enough output for some really slow, heavy overdriven riffage. Clean sound is really important. This guitar is very dark and prone to being bass-heavy, so it needs a neck pickup that's really crystalline on the high end, but hopefully not incredibly thin in the process, needs to sound good playing jazz chords.
My idea:
Neck: Full Shred - neck - The description of this pickup on the website has peaked my curiosity as it sounds like it has the high-end I need. Whatever neck pickup I go with also needs to be able to handle some gain.
Bridge: Black Winter (or something else with a good boosted mid-range focus). My other guitar has a Full Shred trembucker bridge pickup and I love it dearly, but it's seriously mid-scooped, so I want this C-1 to fill in the midrange hole when I combine them together in a mix. I've watched a ton of those bridge comparison videos on youtube. Based solely on those I most liked the sound of these: Black Winter, Duncan Custom, Duncan Distortion, but I'm open to any and all suggestions!
Thanks!
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