Recent content by Rydock

I have an ESP guitar with a hot rails neck and a custom (TB-5) in the bridge. The custom is perfectly balanced sounding. Good amount of mids and highs and tight bass. I use it for riffing and leads. The hot rails on the other hand is very dark for my tastes. Cleans sound decent with it but when...

Hey guys. What passive pickup sound close to the EMG 85 under gain. I did a search and found that people are saying the blackouts neck is similar to the 85 but louder, and more 'passive' sounding. That didn't help much. I'm basically looking for pickup that has similar tone characteristics as...

For those of you who swapped your JB's A5s to ceramics, what did you think of it compared to a stock JB? How does it compare to a Custom and a Distortion? I imagine it would fall somewhere in between due to the standard sized magnet (like the SH-5 has); more aggressive than a Custom, yet more...

So I had an extra set of Blackout puts I picked up a while ago and just decided to install them into a project I've been working on. Problem is the included pots' poles were too short to fasten to the body of my guitar. I read on the piece of paper that you could get longer pole pots from Duncan...

What do you guys think? Preferably Duncan or Dimarzio.

I'm looking to buy a custom and was wondering if it's better to buy a really old one or one thats brand new in package. Are pickups wound by MJ (DCJ) any better then a new one? Or is it just the same? If so, I rather get a brand new pickup.

My ESP has a came with a JB in the bridge, but now I'm torn between keeping it like this or changing it to a Custom. The JB is the only Duncan bridge I've ever used, so it's all I know. I have a hot rails in the neck of my guitar. It's a maple neckthru with ebony fretboard, and the body is...

So I just bought a Dimarzio fast track 2 to put in the bridge of my SSS Eclipse. The thing is, I don't think the pickup will fit in the routing because the pickup has a wider baseplate on the bottom of it. I just want to know what's the best way to get this pickup to fit into an EMG style route.

Hey guys. You guys may think this is a silly idea, but I have this idea for a project I'm working on. I wanted to know if there is a way to hook up and LED in the circuit Duncan Blackouts somewhere to cause it to light up when they are activated (when cable is in the output jack). Or if you guys...

Hi guys. I'm new to this forum, and I just bought myself a set of blackouts today. I'm actually really excited to install them into my ibanez RG (project for the ultimate metal tone on basswood). Right now I can't install them yet until I pick up some solder; wait for my custom H-H pickguard to...