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I'm looking for hot fat true single coils pickups with good mids and lows in SSS strat. For hard rock/stoner. Which of these is better: 1) Quarter Pound Flat™ SSL-4 2) Quarter Pound Staggered™ SSL-7 3) Hot for Strat SSL-3 4) Custom Staggered SSL-5 5) Five-Two™ for Strat SSL-52 What else do you...

I have an ash body guitar with Bill Lawrence L500xl. I like this pickup and my sound of my guitar is very bright with lot of highs. But I think it has not enough mids. I don't want to change my pickup. Can EMG SPC or any other mid booster help me?

I have a question about Jackson pickups. Is there any differences between american made Jackson pickups (J50, J80, J90, etc...) and japanese made Jackson pickups (J50, J80, J90, etc...). Do japanese made pickups sounds worse then american?

I have a guitar. It is japanese Charvel Fusion copy. Like Charvel Fusion it has ash body (specifically it is japanese ash called sen, I read that it sounds like american ash, I also knows, that ash guitars Ibanez are from sen too), 24.75 scale, mapple/rosewood neck and floyd rose. To my ears, my...

Can such pickups as Seymour Duncan SH-1 or DiMarzio PAF Pro with onboard preamp used for metal (thrash/death)? Or it should be more hot pickups (for example SH-4)? And what onboard preamp it should be - gain boost (like EMG Afterburner) or midboost (like EMG SPC)?

What EMG equivalent for Jackson boosters je-1000 and je-1200?

Hello. I don't know what to choose for my guitar (B.C.Rich NJ, alder body, floyd, bolted maple/rosewood neck): Seymour Duncan Full Shred or Wilde (Bill Lawrence) L500xl. I like heavy/thrash metal (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Testament, Slayer, etc). I want to get "piercing" sound. I...

I have alder guitar with floyd, maple neck on bolts. I want to choose a rail humbucker for heavy music (from heavy to thrash). Can you compare Bill Lawrence L500XL USA, Wilde L500 and SH-13 Dimebucker. Which of them will be better for my goals and for my guitar? Which of them has more mids?

Hello! Can you help me? Is it Seymour Duncan at foto? It has 12 screws, not 6.