Bridge Pickup for alder body guitar

[Thrash it up]

Hello,
I've got an alder body guitar with ebony fingerbord (with an OFR also) which has right now a blackout ahb1 set. I am thinking about something to swap those pickups for a moment and since I have a JB/Jazz set in all of my guitars (and I love it) I though first putting the same set in the guitar but I'm looking for something different this time.
I never loved the blackout set that much because of its output and... I don't know, there wasn't that crunch sound for rhythm sections that I have with passive duncans. Recently I tuned this guitar in D standard and since then I don't like the sound anymore.
I'm looking for something that has more bite and especially a better high end response (without too much treeble if possible, I play a lot of solos too), for fast playing style. don't know if it's because of the D standard, but the sound is not as articulate as I'd want it to be.
So all your propositions would be welcome cause I never tried something else than a JB and a distortion (a long time ago) in the bridge position (for a passive option of course). I got a good memory of the distortion for aggressive style playing but I didn't like it that much for soloing. It was in a E standard tuned guitar so my be it'll produce a different sound in a D tuned guitar...
Well I don't want to answer my question myself, so please, some people that have some experience with lower tuning could be very usefull

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Bridge Pickup for alder body guitar

I have guitars that tune to drop D, drop Db and totally tuned to D. a basswood with a JB. a basswood/maple with a Tone Zone. and alder with a Lawrence 500XL. and about to do a mahogany with a JB.


from what you're talking about, it seems a lot of people have suggested the Distortion in other instances. I've only used a Distortion once and thought it was fine for dirty tones, but didn't clean up as well as I wanted on my clean settings.

if you have JBs in other guitars, pop one in the one tuned to D and see how you like it... should give you a frame of reference.

 

[hamerfan]

Re: Bridge Pickup for alder body guitar

I have a alder strat with 1piece maple neck. The JB was alright, the Custom was way stronger in bass and highs, so a opted for a mag swap to get a C8. the
The bass became a tad rounder but the highs are on the spot. Full mids aplenty. Holy smoke that thing is beefy!