Advice on Pickups for Death/thrash metal

[Creator_Failure]

Hey guys, i've been doing a lot of research lately on pickups becuase i'm thinking of changing the bridge PU (Seymour Duncan JB) on my schecter c-1 classic. I play metal, mostly thrash/death and the tone im getting with the duncans is a little too thin and i need something more crunchy/more attack for palm mutes. Right now my setup is:
5150 II halfstack with a 5150 4x12 --> mxr 10 band eq --> c-1 classic.
I've been looking at the Dimarzio X2n, emg-81/85, and duncan live wire heavy metal... Any advice/tips would be much appreciated, thanks a lot

 

[Binnerscot]

Re: Advice on Pickups for Death/thrash metal

With that amp, I would say that EMGs may do pretty well - they have a little more high end than the Live Wires to bring out the pick attack. The 5150 has a good amount of low end and low midrange, so some high end in the pickups will sound pretty nice.

 

[don73]

Re: Advice on Pickups for Death/thrash metal

Duncan Distortion or Dimebucker

 

[bloodswords]

Re: Advice on Pickups for Death/thrash metal

it might be your set-up. i own the JB & it does death/ black metal with ease. it's anything but thin sounding.

 

[taphappy]

Re: Advice on Pickups for Death/thrash metal

I think you might need to boost your mids on your if your getting a thin sound. Try the Dimebucker.

 

[Fusion1]

Re: Advice on Pickups for Death/thrash metal

Can't go wrong with EMG's for that type of sound, but the X2N won't be bad either if you don't want to go active.

 

[Johtosotku]

Re: Advice on Pickups for Death/thrash metal

I've used the JB with such with quite good results, but if I were playing nothing else than it I would go straight for a 81/81 combo. For metal it slays, otherwise it's a bit too boring IMO.