Best Pickups for my Schecter

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Ok, I am trying to decide what Seymour Duncan pickups to put in my guitar, and I figured that there isn't a much better place to ask than on Seymour Duncan's website...

But anyways, I just got my new guitar a few days ago. It is only my second guitar, and I have only been playing for 2 years, so I am far from an expert at this kind of thing. I am spending a lot of my own hard earned money on my equipment, so I am trying to get as many opinions and play as many guitars as possible before I make any decisions on what pickups to buy. I don't want to spend all those hot hours out in the sun just so I can end up with a cheap sounding guitar...

I have a Schecter C1-Plus, click the link below if you need to know the wood type or anything like that. (I do use the coil tap a fair amount of the time)

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document?doc_id=98636&g=guitar&sku=513010

The Duncan Designed pickups that it came with are good, but they arn't what I consider great. I am planning on removeing them and putting them in my other guitar, because its stock Ibanez pickups sound horrible on my new amp.

My amp is a Carvin MTS 212 combo amp, but it is a few years older, so it came with British speakers enstead of the Celestion speakers they have now

http://www.carvin.com/products/single.php?ItemNumber=MTS3212&CID=GA

The only pedal that I have right now is a Digi-Tech Bad Monkey tube overdrive pedal, and don't use it most of the time.


I like to play a lot of Black Sabbath and AC-DC style metal, along with quite a bit of grundge music. I play a lot of Metal of all different types, but I don't realy want pickups that are only good for shred metal or death metal. I wan't something that is versitle enough to play moderen metal music as well as old school blues and Led Zeppelin / ZZ Top style bluesrock. I may be young, but I am a oldschool bluesrocker at heart but play a lot of heavy metal in my band.

I have played almost all of the Seymour Duncan pickups I am looking at on one guitar or another, but it is realy hard to know how exactly they will fit in with my exact guitar and amp (and I can't just bring my guitar and 60 pound amp in and start swaping out pickups in the guitars at Guitar Center...)

I realy like the guitars I have played that have eather a JB/Jazz or JB/59 combination, but I am realy not set with any decision yet, there are just too many pickups out there for me to go test them all out and stuff. Im not realy asking you guys to pick out the pickups for me to buy, but to just give me some more information and help point me in the right direction so I can have a better idea at what to be looking for.


and now Im finaly done typeing this long drawn out post...

thanks in advance for helping me out :banana:
 
Re: Best Pickups for my Schecter

hey welcome to the forum.

In my C1-Plus I put in a C5 in the bridge and 59 in the neck. The C5 works well with the schecter because of the mahogany body. I can go from classic rock to death metal. Both pic ups are very versatile. You could also go with the Custom instead of the C5.
 
Re: Best Pickups for my Schecter

bbking1021 said:
hey welcome to the forum.

In my C1-Plus I put in a C5 in the bridge and 59 in the neck. The C5 works well with the schecter because of the mahogany body. I can go from classic rock to death metal. Both pic ups are very versatile. You could also go with the Custom instead of the C5.
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How would that combination compare to the JB/Jazz combo I was playing on the Schecter C1-Blackjack at Guitar Center? I don't mean wheather it is better or worse, but how is the tone different (I have played many 59s, but I havn't got around to a C5)
 
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I can't tell you much about the JB/Jazz but I can tell you about the C5. The C5 is similar to the 59 both alnico 5 and it has the 59 vintage vibe but it acts like a 59 on steriods. It compresses well to get more modern tones but it also can be very vintage and open.
 
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I highly recomend the JB/59 combo for your guitar.
 
Re: Best Pickups for my Schecter

Bro, you need the Custom/Pearly gates!!!
 
Re: Best Pickups for my Schecter

schecters are pretty dark, im pretty sure a brighter pickup ala ceramics would be awesome.
 
Re: Best Pickups for my Schecter

wow, that a lot of different answers...

which would get a better clean sound, JB/Jazz or JB/59

I've never played a Pearly Gates pickup, and it has been forever since the last time I played a guitar with a Custom... could you say a little more about why I should go with them?
 
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hmmmmm i wouldnt do a 59 for the neck...the bridge maybe...or a 59 in the neck with Alnico2 mag's in them.
 
Re: Best Pickups for my Schecter

jazz has better cleans for sure over the 59 (to answer your question), i found the 59 to be a bit boomy in the neck of my other c-1
 
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i have the schecter c-1 classic which comes with a jazzn/jbb and the jb sounds great with pretty good cleans. about the jazz tho, awesome cleans i love it, but it is a little too bassy for my taste. i, like u, also have mahogony which is big on the bass.
 
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I think im going to go with a JB/59 combo, it gets a better oldschool tone than the JB/Jazz
 
Re: Best Pickups for my Schecter

emilio said:
i have the schecter c-1 classic which comes with a jazzn/jbb and the jb sounds great with pretty good cleans. about the jazz tho, awesome cleans i love it, but it is a little too bassy for my taste. i, like u, also have mahogony which is big on the bass.
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Mahogany is big on mids, not bass.

I will tell you why the Custom/PG will be a better and ssfer choice than a JB and whatever neck pickup. The JB is a love it or hate it pickup and it dosent always do well in mahogany. The JB has a very loose bottom end compared to most pickups and a boosted upper mid. Either poeple LOVE it or hate it IMO. A JB does best in a Alder or Maple guitar with a Rosewood board and a tremolo of some sorts. The Custom describes the tone you are looking for to a T. It is like a more modern version of a PAF and it can cover anything from Metal to classic rock with ease and do it quite well in most guitars! Mahogany LOVES the Custom and what it offers. Why the PG???? The PG has about the same percived brightness as the Jazz in the neck but, it has alot more personality and mojo. It also Matches the Custom better than ANY other Duncan neck pickup period!!@!!

If you want more info on the Custom, there is a thread or 2 right now that further describes it and you can also do a search to find a wealth on info on it. BTW, I have played and owned almost all of Duncans pickups and gave them all a good chance. I am not one of these folks on here that have 1 guitar that happens to have a JB in it and thats the only or one of the few Duncans I have played and thats the reason I say to get it. That is not me at all bro! Take advice from one who is expereinced.

BTW, here is a good description of the Custom,
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=85759
 
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Re: Best Pickups for my Schecter

well, which pickup gives a brighter sound, the Pearly Gates of the 59?

(I got a chance to play both, but one was in a SG and the other was in a Schecter, so it wasn't realy a good side by side comparison...)

Right now my Schecter has a set of Duncan Designed pickups, they are the copy version of the JB/Jazz that came stock on the guitar. How close are those to the actual thing? (im putting those in my Ibanez after I replace them, because they sure beat the hell out of the stock Ibanez pickups)


My favorite music is oldschool or blues rock, I love Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, AC-DC, Black Sabbath, Arosmith (especialy the oldest stuff) I love the vintage style tone and the whole style of music in general. I do play a lot of blues, but when I do I usualy try to get some sort of bluesrock distortion, so getting pure blues tone isn't too immportant to me.

With my band I play a lot of different stuff than that, so it would have to be a prety versitle pickup set because I play more newer stuff when they come over to my house. We cover a lot of newer metal, oldschool punk, more grundge than anything else, and even some emo music when our bassist requests it. A lot of bands we cover are like Coheed and Cambria, Audioslave / Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Alice in Chains.

And least immportant is what my girlfreind like me to play (not least immportant because it is my gf, but because she knows nothing about good tone or anything) and I play a lot of 90s pop grundge music or stuff like Creed and 3 Doors Down.

I rarely play any shred metal or anything like that, and I am known as one of the most oldschool guitarists around, because everyone else is big on all the new bands and stuff, so I realy want a good vintage tone that will set me out from all of the guitarists useing EMGs and such, but I still want to be able to sound great on all the moderen metal and grundge that I play.
 
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the real thing FEELS much better, for some reason the designed pickups they put in the schecters are far my grittier, brighter, and thinner feeling than the real JB/jazz. The real jb is thicker sounding with the c-1. C-1 also matches perfect to a JB or duncan distortion, i think the jb low end really matches well for palm muting leads and chords as its fluid with the fat low end (not flabby at all) where the tighter pickups i've tried are TOO tight and aren't fluid for palm muting. I'd say the designed pickups are better for metal, but not nearly as good for cleans and hard rock and lower gain stuff. I am one of those LOVE the jb guys btw :D
 
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