Dimarzio that sounds like Custom / C5?

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I got a Bluesbucker neck for Christmas and was wondering what to put with it in the bridge? It's double cream so I want to stick with dimarzio. I was thinking just a Super Distortion would be cool, but I would also be open to trying something more scooped, but still high output.

This would be for an SG
 
OsvyRock said:
If Super Distortion = Custom
Then C5 = Super 3.
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IME I don't know if I agree with that. I've had the Custom 5 in multiple guitars, including an SG and it was like a loud Jazz bridge, bright, tight bottom and no prominent mids. I had a Super 3 in a 1980's "The Strat" or "HM Strat" which was bright basswood and it was still dark and mid-heavy. But I only had that one experience with the Super 3.
 
Steve Blucher, he has been the main product design/developer and engineer, as well as Vice President for years, and has designed most (minus the early ones like the Super D of course!) of the pickups Dimarzio sells, including the EVH/Axis set, The Tone Zone, all of the Satriani, Vai and Petrucci and most of the other signature artist sets if I am not wrong! Also Air, Virtual Vintage, and Dual Resonance technology are all from him.
 
I had a Jackson PC1 about ten years ago which came stock with the Super 3, I liked it for sure, a lot like a Super D maybe fatter and more "modern" sounding to the Super's vintage-y voice?
 
Unless it's a very bright guitar, I would not go with a Super 3. I find them dark and muddy. Te only pickup I can think of that would be close to a Custom 5 would be the long discontinued Virtual Hot PAF. If you are looking for fat and smooth, look hard at the Gravity Storm Bridge.
 
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