Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

[rkw32081]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

You should check out the DMZ Super 3. Its a smooth bridge pickup that's really thick and sings like a neck pickup, but with lots of output and harmonics with a nice tight lows that arent muddy. Its awesome!

 

[Thunder]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

The Crazy 8 fits all your requirements, but I would buy a real amp before I would get too hung up on the "perfect" bridge pup - your playing through a POD!

Yes . Try to get a real amp and work with the EQ. You might be amazed.

 

[mod5150]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

Have you tried doing the 18 volt mod to the EMG 81 85 ,you can also bypass the pots via a push pull pot with DPDT or DPDT mini toggle switch . I have found these two mods together make a great improvement to the EMGs when playing lead.

 

[Marshall_Abuser]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

I disliked the 18V mod. I tried it quite a few times. Seem to sound less compressed and more hi-fi to my ears.

I'm looking for a VERY compressed bridge pickup with high output and smooth treble. I want LOTS of compression.

The Suhr Aldrich is wrong to me in the sense that it doesn't compress much.

An open sounding pickup is the complete opposite than what I'm looking for.

Have you tried doing the 18 volt mod to the EMG 81 85 ,you can also bypass the pots via a push pull pot with DPDT or DPDT mini toggle switch . I have found these two mods together make a great improvement to the EMGs when playing lead.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

There is no question whatsoever that the Invader does this as no other mass produced pickup. Really no reason to continue the thread.

You can also try load capacitors.

 

[Rick540]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

Rio Grande BBQ.......fat, thick and meaty.

Just like my wife. :bigthumb:

 

[Archer_of_Fish]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

I disliked the 18V mod. I tried it quite a few times. Seem to sound less compressed and more hi-fi to my ears.

I'm looking for a VERY compressed bridge pickup with high output and smooth treble. I want LOTS of compression.

The Suhr Aldrich is wrong to me in the sense that it doesn't compress much.

An open sounding pickup is the complete opposite than what I'm looking for.

Hang on, earlier you said this:

Also, there is too much pick noise for my preference and it feels too compressed.

Is the Aldrich compressed sounding or not? I have NEVER heard anyone call any of Suhr's pickups overly compressed...in fact most haters dont like them because the Suhrs are t so open sounding.

I think you are flopping pickups around too much, making yourself confused and setting up unrealistic expectations of what a pickup can TRULY do. Sounds to me like your solution isnt pickups, it is in your amp and effect chain.

At the end of the day there is only one question that matters. Can you play or not? People that are solid players can use anything and get their tone.

 

[super rad stuff]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

:why::fart::lame:

 

[Gplayerzzz]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

Rockfield fatass. I have been looking at the rockfield line, and I like what I've heard. I think the Mafia would be perfect for me. You might like the fatass.

 

[surface54]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

alternative 8, your tone will not surpass how much it can beef up.
its totally a workable pickup for anyone.

 

[Shinobi]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

I know, but I like the "feel" of high-output pickups when playing shreddy lines. I like some compression from the pickup and I like the feel of the pickup slammin the front end of the amp. It's more of a "feel thing" than a "tone thing".

How is your picking accuracy? I noticed you named a lot of players that I like and from what you have stated I think we even have similar playing styles in that when we are playing we mainly like playing leads. The reason I ask about your pick accuracy or maybe technique is because you seem to have used some of the best pups...that even your inspirations use..and they get the sound out of them.

One thing I think you said (on another thread) is that pup tone doesn't matter (at least I think it was you) but I kind of understand this statement because a lot of the sound and tone is generated in how the strings are fretted and pic'd. But there is definetly different tones in pups too.

From my experience with my Kramer Baretta people used to tell me it sounded killer when I had the stock schaller PAF in it....and that was 25 years ago playing through a PV solid state amp and only a Digitch Digital Delay.

But later I found something missing and dropped in a Custom Custom. The leads sounded killer with the Custom Custom...but I wondered if it was just my opinion.....then I decided to try a Distortion because I read George Lynch used it on the earlier Dokken stuff. I put the DD in my Kramer and have never really been satisfied with it. When I play fast it doesn't sound like my CC did or what I remember the Schaller PAF sounding like. But George Lynch on Tooth & Nail played pretty fast and it sounds killer...if he was using a DD in that ESP.

Interestingly I like my CC in my ESP..but it is a cheapy ESP H-50...but it sounds pretty **** good with the CC in it.

I am not wanting to be on a constant pup change mission because I want to just focus on playing. Not discussing pups all day.

But it seems like the A2 is the choice for the good better lead guitar players. If you look at what pups it's in. The CC for VH, Warren DiMartini and George Lynch's signature series pups...they used the A2s.

Thinking there must be something to the A2 for lead players.

I don't necessarrily want to stick an A8 in just because it is the latest craze. There is no A8 audio sample (alternative 8). I was thinking of A8 changes in all of my current pups. CC, DD, and PAF.

 

[Gamera]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

There is no question whatsoever that the Invader does this as no other mass produced pickup. Really no reason to continue the thread.

You can also try load capacitors.

The Invader is great for rhythm but I've not had a lot of luck with leads using it. Not very defined and just too much at times.

 

[rammer69]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

marshall , did you get the right pup yet ? if so , what is it ?

 

[Gplayerzzz]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

So what did you ever get?

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

its not your pickups its your amp.

 

[GoDrex]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

Try dropping an a8 mag in any of those pickups that you liked the most overall, and see what happens. I have an A8 DD in a similar guitar to what you've got and the mag swap cured all of my initial gripes about that pickup.

+1 The JB8 (same as a DD8) is a huge sounding pickup.

 

[GHWelles]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

I need something that's VERY middy and smooth, liquid, creamy, pouring, etc. (read: andy timmons' tone!) My understanding is that I tend to desire more "low-mids" than "high-mids"

I think you need to try a BREED. And a Marshall pure tube amp with no distorting diodes in the pre-amp. And maybe an Ibanez Tube Screamer, great mids.

 

[veryhungrycaterpilla]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

Crazy 8 or Air Zone

 

[Fusion1]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

Invader with hex poles. Still thick but more articulate and less mud than the stock Invader poles. Might be exactly what you're looking for.

 

[super rad stuff]

Re: Fat, thick, bridge pickups ?

man why are you guys giving marshall abuser advice? if you read through this zombie, he didn't really listen to any of it, and i don't think he's logged in for quite a while....