Blackouts vs passives

[Metallipea]

Hello!

I´m new here and I´d like to get some suggestions about pickup selection. I built one guitar in 2010 and I was a metalhead then, so logical selection was to go with SD Blackout AHB-1. Now I have my doubts, cause my taste has changed. Should I go passive with this baritone guitar? What pickups do you suggest for hard rock type of sound for this bad boy here





Best wishes
Maiko Saluorg
https://www.facebook.com/SnakeBiteGuitars

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Blackouts vs passives

I put P-Rails in my one-pickup baritone-tuned SG so that I could get four different tones out of the one pickup spot.

 

[Metallipea]

Re: Blackouts vs passives

I put P-Rails in my one-pickup baritone-tuned SG so that I could get four different tones out of the one pickup spot.

Well thank you for the idea, I thought, that maybe I should just add one pup, but I don´t want to change this instrument too much, it´s still my first project. So your idea, could give me some versatility with push-pull pot and stuff maybe. Do you have some sound samples of this instrument with p-rails?

Maiko

 

[greekdude]

Re: Blackouts vs passives

Any decent passive HB can do coil spliting, parallel/series swithcing and phase switching as well (you wont like that last one). A pup that i recently tested was an EMG 707tw (hybrid Humbucker/Single Coil) in a hellraiser C-7. Well, i hated the guitar, but loved the pups. Great tones, great versality, single coil tones, HB tones, noiseless. So active does not mean necessarily lack of versality.