DK24 HH not digging pickup

[Bill Dennis]

I have the Pro-Mod DK24 HH 2PT with the non locking trem. I think the Full Shred / A2Pro is perfect in that guitar. It's an alder body so that may make a difference. I change pickups like I change clothes but that guitar is still stock 3 years in... The toggle switch that puts everything in parallel is perfect for that guitar. It opens up a lot of possibilities for clean sounds that are fantastic

 

[audiosalvage]

I need to exhume this thread. I've found the tone/sound I'm looking for, unfortunately it's the wrong guitar. I have a a squier CV strat hard tail w/ maple neck and Lidp body. I put a dimarzio SDS 1 pickup in the bridge and Loving the tone.. I want to simulate this with my Charvel DK24 HH FR, maple neck and mahogany body. I've tried the stock Full shread and the 78 model so what's next? Any help would be great. Thanks

 

[Mincer]

I need to exhume this thread. I've found the tone/sound I'm looking for, unfortunately it's the wrong guitar. I have a a squier CV strat hard tail w/ maple neck and Lidp body. I put a dimarzio SDS 1 pickup in the bridge and Loving the tone.. I want to simulate this with my Charvel DK24 HH FR, maple neck and mahogany body. I've tried the stock Full shread and the 78 model so what's next? Any help would be great. Thanks

Could you get some kind of humbucker-to-single coil pickup ring and use the pickup you like?

 

[audiosalvage]

Yeah I could do that, but it looks cheesy and may not sound the same. I don't know

 

[audiosalvage]

I just hate the trial and error thing, expensive

 

[Mincer]

So what would you say that is 'wrong' with the current pickup in the Charvel? What do you want more or less of?

 

[Chistopher]

SDS1 to me sounds kind of like a P90. Bluesbucker to me sounds kind of like a P90, but in a humbucker size.

If you want to save money, don't focus on the pickup. Even if you find the perfect pickup it will only make that guitar sound good. It sounds to me like you are trying to get biting treble by adding it into the signal, instead of cutting out other frequencies that may be burying it. What other parts of your rig can you tweak? It may also be worth it to disburse $30 into a Behringer 7-band eq if you don't have one.

 

[Aceman]

SDS1 to me sounds kind of like a P90. Bluesbucker to me sounds kind of like a P90, but in a humbucker size.

If you want to save money, don't focus on the pickup. Even if you find the perfect pickup it will only make that guitar sound good. It sounds to me like you are trying to get biting treble by adding it into the signal, instead of cutting out other frequencies that may be burying it. What other parts of your rig can you tweak? It may also be worth it to disburse $30 into a Behringer 7-band eq if you don't have one.

I'm on board with this assessment. After all of this I'm thinking "It's the guitar" for whatever reason.

All of the EQ in the world isn't going to add something that just isn't there - especially passive EQ.


Maple neck, bolt on w/ Floyd in 25.5 scale should be particularly bright. Except that none of those pickups work, and they all should

What about an EQ pedal?

 

[Chistopher]

The EQ pedal won't necessarily fix the issue, but rather would be a good tool to learn how frequencies can create the final sound and how pre-dist eq has a much different effect than pos-dist eq. The big question I'm wondering is how you can get a "round and honky" sound out of a Full Shred with a dimed treble and presence control

 

[donaldr]

Hi, I have a DK24 HH FR with a SD full shred in the bridge. I am running through a plexi clone that is really mid heavy. With my stock SGJ it sounds great, nice and juicy, but with the Charvel it is WAY middy. Both guitars have a maple neck and mahogany bodies. so the pickups must be the issue here. The amp treble and presence are dimed with the DK and with the SG they can be all @ 12 o clock Any suggestions on which pickup would get me closer to the more biting treble side?

I have Gibson '61 pickups in my LPJ and IMHO there's no SD equivalence. This pickup is juicy in my LP. I wanted to try a set in my Ibanez SZ520 but the price of them has sky rocketed since they are now on LP Standard.

I don't know that much about SD humbuckers but those I tried were all a bit mid-scooped. Maybe have a look at the PA-TB3, or at Dimarzio.

 

[donaldr]

I would normally be looking to tame the biting treble response of a plexi type amp, but maybe if you don't need real high output the Screamin Demon would do what you want?

I have Gibson '61 pickups as OP and I have a Screamin Demon also. I don't think an SD (even with A8) will get OP where he wants to be.

 

[donaldr]

I would normally be looking to tame the biting treble response of a plexi type amp, but maybe if you don't need real high output the Screamin Demon would do what you want?

I have Gibson '61 pickups as OP and I have a Screamin Demon also. I don't think an SD (even with A8) will get OP where he wants to be.

 

[audiosalvage]

Here's the thing, I have a hand made cathode biased 20watt marshall clone which has a lot of low mids. This sounds perfect with my squier and my Gibson SGJ can do that "fool for the city tone" in spades, boosted it gets all the 70s and 80s hard rock I want. With my charvel it just sounds too warm. I've went down the EQ pedal rabbit hole and I'd be always tweaking it. You'd think that the DK and the SG have the same body and neck woods would have similar characteristics.

 

[audiosalvage]

Hmmmmm, that SGJ 61 zebra probably does not come in Trembucker width

 

[jeremy]

You'd think that the DK and the SG have the same body and neck woods would have similar characteristics.

almost everything else is totally different though. scale, bridge, # of frets, body style, neck attachment, etc... very different guitars

 

[audiosalvage]

I could try a P() full size but that humm?

 

[audiosalvage]

SD Custom custom?

 

[Ascension]

I still keep thinking the Hybrid. They have a unique high mid-punch that really cuts through. The Shread has that bright top end but lacks high mid, the more I read through this, the more I think your issue is a lack of high mid-punch and not the very top end. The Hybrid has a pretty unique response across the board.

 

[Mincer]

SD Custom custom?

If you don't want more mids, the CC isn't the right pickup.

 

[htwheelz67]

The hot ticket at least for me on my DK-24 and found this by accident because I wanted gold poles to match hardware is replace the hex screws (or half of them) with 3/4" fillister screws, the change is very noticeable as it rounds/smooths the highs, gives a slight mid bump and slightly loosens the bottom end, Ive told a couple people about this on the Charvel page on FB and they had positive results as well.