High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

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RIOT!

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Hello forum people!

So I have a fender telecaster deluxe 72 reissue,thats the one with 2 wide range humbuckers, and I am not happy with the bridge one.
For the stuff I play I find the bridge pickup kinda useless.I use bridge pickup only for distortion/high gain stuff so I dont care about quality of bridge pickup clean sound .The guitar by itself is pretty bright,its alder body and maple neck and fretboard so I am scared that most of pickups would make the sound too much ice picky.So what do you recommend?

Thanks!
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

GilmourD said:
I'd go Custom Custom.
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Lemme expand since I'm not at work anymore. :)

I had a very bright-sounding Strat. This one in fact.
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That body's definitely not a light and airy swamp ash. It's hard ash.

Dropped a Custom Custom in there for some heat with a tamed top end and it worked perfectly.
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

Are you aware that regular sized hb is not direct replacement for WRHB? You'll need new pickguard.
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

I am aware but I have heard and later mesured that the size of the wrhb is more less the same size as a normal humbucker with mounting ring so I think there will be no problems with that. Right now I am thinking about Invader or Custom Custom. Would you put 500k or 250k pots with them?
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

Alt 8 or Distortion with an A2. Either with 500k pots. Invader is another good choice as is the CC.
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

JB or Custom Custom.

if you want to drop a few bucks in the custom shop, there's the RTM.
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

Jb would probably be too ice picky.Is there any covers for the invader and would it be worthy to coil split it because I have a 500k push pull pot laying around?
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

the distortion is very bright and I fear that might be to skreechy in the end.

The invader is super thick and a lovely pickup on its own but why not the patb2? best of both worlds, tone wise and then some. More clarity and chime, sparkly split tones. especially with an alnico8 in stead of the ceramic. the ceramic is a razor blade, the alnico8 a sledgehammer.
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

PATB-2, Super3, Deactivator-X, EMG 85, Warpig, CC, Alt8, RTM, all good choices.
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

Dimarzio Super 3 or Tone Zone is where i would go. The Invader to me is just sludge with no tone.
Tone Zone is hot but is also big and organic sounding and can be a little on the soft spongy side the Super 3 hot and thick but also is very tight. The Super 3 in particular is a Dimarzio SD with the bottom rolled up and the top rolled down. GREAT choice for a bright guitar doing metal. There was a reason Fender used this pickup in the old HM Strat back in the late 80's!
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

I used to have a guitar with an alder body maple/maple neck

DMZ Super Distortion made it sound thick, rich, meaty and totally devastating for metal.
 
Re: High output bridge pickup for bright guitar

Since cleans aren't an issue I'm going Invader or Super D....Super 3 might work too....
 
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