help choosing a pickup please.

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SepultuRick

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Hi, i would like a new bridge humbucker for my dean z79, mahogany body with maple top, set neck, rosewood fretboard, thru body stringing.

the one in there is a stock dean pickup and its a little weak, fizzy and boring.

I play a lot of metal, both modern and older. i also like warmer vintage tubey overdrive styles.

I want something punchy and fairly aggressive. but also something that can sound smooth and sing. great cleans from the bridge pickup are not essential to me. i was thinking of going alnico 5 or 2 rather than ceramic to help round of the top end sizzle.
I think a pickup with a flat eq may be good but not sure.

my amp is a cube 30x.

any ideas?

also a neck pickup suggestion to go with the bridge would be good.
 
Re: help choosing a pickup please.

Custom series humbuckers are sweet. Medium-output, y'know, hot enough to rock with but cool enough to have a very vintage flavor to them.
 
Re: help choosing a pickup please.

I have a V79 myself. I found when I switched out the stock pickups that their output was much higher than I initially thought. I put in a SD high output bridge pickup and when I switched to neck pickup the output would very noticeably increase. Just keep that in mind.

Eventually I had both pickups in... it was a set of Full Shreds. It sounded very cool (fat, chunky, smooth) in that guitar, and the middle position made a lovely clean tone.
 
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'59 in the neck for old metal

aaaand i dunno about new metal so listen to everyone else on that one
 
Re: help choosing a pickup please.

evo bridge and neck set with coil splits. INCREDIBLY versatile set i once had in an old mahogany ML. i could get everything from a modern metal crunch, to a smooth fluid lead sound, and then when you split 'em you get great full cleans. really great set.

Rob
 
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I would do this (call me crazy, but worth a shot)

Put a Brobucker in the neck and a Custom Custom in the bridge. The 10k neck and the 14.4k bridge will give the best of all worlds old and new

jason
 
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Eh, custom custom for metal isn't so hot. Of the pickups i've tried, i'd go with a custom 8, it has a tighter low end than the custom 5.
 
Re: help choosing a pickup please.

SepultuRick said:
Hi, i would like a new bridge humbucker for my dean z79, mahogany body with maple top, set neck, rosewood fretboard, thru body stringing.

the one in there is a stock dean pickup and its a little weak, fizzy and boring.

I play a lot of metal, both modern and older. i also like warmer vintage tubey overdrive styles.

I want something punchy and fairly aggressive. but also something that can sound smooth and sing. great cleans from the bridge pickup are not essential to me. i was thinking of going alnico 5 or 2 rather than ceramic to help round of the top end sizzle.
I think a pickup with a flat eq may be good but not sure.

my amp is a cube 30x.

any ideas?

also a neck pickup suggestion to go with the bridge would be good.
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Honestly, that sounds like a good old JB for the bridge.
 
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