I want to ask for some advices on what Seymour Duncan pickup to choose. I don't have much experience with the pickups, so my question MAY seem a little stupid.
I want to replace a brige humbucker on my Japanese Tokai LS98. It has got a "PAF-Vintage MK2" Made in Japan humbucker. After reading the Tokai forum, I assume, it's made by Keyio and its resistance is about 11,5k.
I want a lower output clear, bright and tight pickup (I play through a quite dark amp). I use the guitar mostly for classic rock, so I use distortion a lot, but I like playing clean too. I've narrowed my choice to these Seymour Duncans:
'59 model SH-1
Alnico II Pro™ APH-1
Pearly Gates™ SH-PG1
Seth Lover Model™ SH-55
Jazz Model™ SH-2
Like I said, I am looking for the brightets and tightest of them, because my amp is pretty dark and doesn't work well with loose bottom end. Please give me some comments about these pickups.
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My biggest issue with my current pickup is that (at least with my Laney amps) it has got too much of the lower end when played through the amp's Drive channel, which results in an unpleasantly distorted loose sound (too much low frequencies going into the preamp) - so I am forced to using a Tubescreamer to cut off some of the bottom end. I want a pickup that has tight bottom end so that it worked fine with my amp without any OD pedal (without cutting the low frequencies before sending it into the preamp). So I need a bright tight pickup (I am playing through a quite dark amp).
I tried an almost identical Tokai with MK3 pickups (higher output and overall slightly cheaper pickups), and I did not have the problems with the bottom end. I don't know how much those pickups are different, but distorted MK3 had tighter bottom end and hence sounded better than MK2 to me. Unfortunately, I don't know MK2 specifications, so I hope that someone who knows those pickups will show up.
I want to replace a brige humbucker on my Japanese Tokai LS98. It has got a "PAF-Vintage MK2" Made in Japan humbucker. After reading the Tokai forum, I assume, it's made by Keyio and its resistance is about 11,5k.
I want a lower output clear, bright and tight pickup (I play through a quite dark amp). I use the guitar mostly for classic rock, so I use distortion a lot, but I like playing clean too. I've narrowed my choice to these Seymour Duncans:
'59 model SH-1
Alnico II Pro™ APH-1
Pearly Gates™ SH-PG1
Seth Lover Model™ SH-55
Jazz Model™ SH-2
Like I said, I am looking for the brightets and tightest of them, because my amp is pretty dark and doesn't work well with loose bottom end. Please give me some comments about these pickups.
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My biggest issue with my current pickup is that (at least with my Laney amps) it has got too much of the lower end when played through the amp's Drive channel, which results in an unpleasantly distorted loose sound (too much low frequencies going into the preamp) - so I am forced to using a Tubescreamer to cut off some of the bottom end. I want a pickup that has tight bottom end so that it worked fine with my amp without any OD pedal (without cutting the low frequencies before sending it into the preamp). So I need a bright tight pickup (I am playing through a quite dark amp).
I tried an almost identical Tokai with MK3 pickups (higher output and overall slightly cheaper pickups), and I did not have the problems with the bottom end. I don't know how much those pickups are different, but distorted MK3 had tighter bottom end and hence sounded better than MK2 to me. Unfortunately, I don't know MK2 specifications, so I hope that someone who knows those pickups will show up.
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