Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

[chrismercurio]

Good afternoon,

I have a mahogany/maple body guitar Les Paul Jr style guitar with a bolt on rosewood neck and ebony board. The bridge is fixed and the scale length is 24.75". I'd like to use a 5 way and a pair of humbuckers with the following configuration:

"Neck, Bridge & Neck (Inside Coils Parallel), Bridge & Neck (Inside Coils Series), Bridge & Neck (Outside Coils Parallel), Bridge"

The guitar is (VERY) bright and I was thinking about a CC in the bridge and a C3 in the neck as the output is probably high enough when the pickups are split to give nice in between sounds. I play a wide variety of music including fingerstyle jazz but generally play instrumental rock (Vai/Satriani/Johnson) and metal. Can you let me know what will be the best all around set in a bright short scale guitar when the intention is also to have somewhat convincing versions of the split sound?

Thank you for your time and have a wonderful rest of your day!

Chris

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

I play a wide variety of music including fingerstyle jazz but generally play instrumental rock (Vai/Satriani/Johnson) and metal.

sounds like you're wanting something pretty articulate.


what do you have in the guitar now and what about those pickups would you like to be different?

 

[chrismercurio]

Re: Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

The neck is a Bartolini 1CTA. It could be warmer. It's effectively a single coil sounding humbucker. The bridge pickup is a Super O from Zhangbucker. It's a bright guitar with bright pickups. I think the rosewood neck, ebony board, bolt on neck attachment, Hannes bridge, maple top, and bright pickups all conspire to make it very bright!

I like the articulation from this guitar yes, and think that if I put a higher output compressed darker sounding pickup set coupled with the inherent brighntess and articulation, I may get to where I want to go which is warm(er) and fat sounding.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

Well, the Custom Custom might work. It is higher output, and has a lot of mids, and very successful in very bright guitars. As for the neck, look at an Alnico II Pro. I use these, and they split really well. My switching uses inner coils and outer coils, with a 5 way super switch.

 

[vinnie1971]

Re: Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

Well, the Custom Custom might work. It is higher output, and has a lot of mids, and very successful in very bright guitars. As for the neck, look at an Alnico II Pro. I use these, and they split really well. My switching uses inner coils and outer coils, with a 5 way super switch.

Plus one on splitting ALNICO 2 pro. I split mine with 4.7 k resistors, and it's a really decent single coil tone.


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[Zhangliqun]

Re: Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

Raise the row of screws facing the neck and lower the row of screws facing the bridge.

 

[chrismercurio]

Re: Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

Raise the row of screws facing the neck and lower the row of screws facing the bridge.

Thank you Dave! I'll give that a try and keep you posted.

 

[chrismercurio]

Re: Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

So, my Super-O only has one row of screws and after lowering the row of screws facing the bridge all the way it's still really bright. Very articulate.

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Best Splitting Humbuckers for a VERY bright guitar...

Sorry, I was thinking it was a 12-screw. But you could try spinning it 180 so the screws face the neck and then raise them.