Help me pick the right pups

[jaredmkl]

Ive been a dimarzio guy for awhile, but Im loving my blackouts and want to try a duncan passive set. Well I have this new epiphone lp, with a floyd and i want new pups for it. I play metalcore, Im playing lead guitar, a 6505+ into a mesa cab. I need something hot for the bridge and clean for the neck, and well balanced together for solo's. I like a big bottom end to. Any ideas?
:thanks:

 

[marvelous_seven]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

Try PATB-2 in bridge,PATB-1n in neck
Tell us what you think

 

[LatsMcGee]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

Dimebucker and a 59.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

One of the best for mahogany: C8/'59N. C8's work for many genres, it's a powerful PU that hits hard. Has enough mids to make you cut thru a mix. Since you like a strong low end, a '59N is ideal; if it should be too boomy, just lower the bass side a little.

 

[Ed Hunter]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

Ive been a dimarzio guy for awhile, but Im loving my blackouts and want to try a duncan passive set. Well I have this new epiphone lp, with a floyd and i want new pups for it. I play metalcore, Im playing lead guitar, a 6505+ into a mesa cab. I need something hot for the bridge and clean for the neck, and well balanced together for solo's. I like a big bottom end to. Any ideas?
:thanks:

duncan distortion in the bridge and a jazz in the neck. Even though the DD is much hotter, if these are set to proper heights they work very well together...

 

[dominus]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

Duncan Custom (TB-5) in the bridge, 59 in the neck.

 

[Agileguy_101]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

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I wouldn't recommend the C8 for metalcore, Blueman. The ceramic mag sterility would lend well to the genre. Neck - Jazz or 59. It's a matter of preference, each would work well. I'd go with the Jazz neck, as that "modern, sterile sound" that many here dislike would work well for what OP wants.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

I wouldn't recommend the C8 for metalcore, Blueman. The ceramic mag sterility would lend well to the genre. Neck - Jazz or 59. It's a matter of preference, each would work well. I'd go with the Jazz neck, as that "modern, sterile sound" that many here dislike would work well for what OP wants.

There's been metal guys here who like C8's.

 

[dominus]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

There's been metal guys here who like C8's.

Metalcore is a little different. C8 should work, Custom *will* work. (And, he'd need a Custom anyway to make a C8, so he can try both. )

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

Distortion set, Dime/Jazz, or Custom/Jazz.

 

[Despair]

Re: Help me pick the right pups

PATB-2 Parallel Axis Distortion and the PATB-1n would probably work, given the floyd.

C8 or Custom & '59n would likely work well, too. Depends on exactly what you want from the guitar.

PATB-2 will be thicker, huge range of awesome metal tones. Custom or C8 (Custom with magnet swapped from ceramic to A8), depending on whether you prefer a bitier or more balanced tone. Both are punchy and similar output, and are more open, less all out metal, but can play there pretty comfortably.

Surface54 has some great samples of the C8, and daemonbarbeque has some terrific ones of the PATB-2. Search the forum for their samples.