A New Direction for me regarding Neck Pickups

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El Dorado

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I've always used the classic pairing of a high output pup in the bridge with a more vintage one in the neck. DD,Custom,JB with 59's,Jazz,AP2.PG's etc... This setup was of course primarily used for clean tones from the neck. Recently, I acquired a hollowbody Schecter E/A with a killer piezo system. This recent addition has pretty much ruined the classic solid body neck pickup clean tone. I just don't think a solid body standard humbucker can compete with the piezo/neck pup/hollowbody clean tone. There have been a lot of threads on here I have read about higher gain neck humbuckers or neck pups used primarily for distorted leads. So my question is, in your opinion which neck bucker definitively sounds the best for distortion soloing/shredding while at the same time having a half way decent clean tone. Be sure to add which woods/type of guitar you think work best for which pickup.
 
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APH and PG for me. They sound great clean and just sing when you throw gain at them. For higher output, I liked the JB's lead tones in the neck, but the cleans sucked ass, unless you split it.
 
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Benjy_26 said:
APH and PG for me. They sound great clean and just sing when you throw gain at them. For higher output, I liked the JB's lead tones in the neck, but the cleans sucked ass, unless you split it.
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Yeah, the APH has been my favorite, I just am curious as to whether some of the more aggressive neck buckers are even better for distorted soloing/shredding.
 
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I've played the Distortion neck and to be quite honest, it was a bit garbled sounding to me. Maybe it's just my ham-fisted approach to playing though. :)
 
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El Dorado said:
I've always used the classic pairing of a high output pup in the bridge with a more vintage one in the neck. DD,Custom,JB with 59's,Jazz,AP2.PG's etc... This setup was of course primarily used for clean tones from the neck. Recently, I acquired a hollowbody Schecter E/A with a killer piezo system. This recent addition has pretty much ruined the classic solid body neck pickup clean tone. I just don't think a solid body standard humbucker can compete with the piezo/neck pup/hollowbody clean tone. There have been a lot of threads on here I have read about higher gain neck humbuckers or neck pups used primarily for distorted leads. So my question is, in your opinion which neck bucker definitively sounds the best for distortion soloing/shredding while at the same time having a half way decent clean tone. Be sure to add which woods/type of guitar you think work best for which pickup.
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The same pickups you have been using. Why do you limit yourself to the neck pup for clean though? I have never understood that.
 
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TheArchitect said:
The same pickups you have been using. Why do you limit yourself to the neck pup for clean though? I have never understood that.
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No, you misunderstood me. I don't use it just for cleans. I just always used the clean tone as the most important factor when choosing a neck pickup. I've always used it for other things too. I just wanted to know if some of the higher gain pickups are able to have decent clean tone as well as be better for shredding/distortion soloing than what I have been using because my new Piezo loaded Schecter will be my primary guitar for clean tones now.
 
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I am just coming out of a high gain neck lead phase. I liked the Seth and APII. But I was not looking for modern high gain voices I was looking more 80's and Satana-plus tones.
 
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