High output metal pickup recommendations for Jackson DK2M
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I thought DK2M was the maple board version, hence the M?
Birdman642
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It’s not strictly a DK2M either. It’s a DK2M body with a JS32 neck. It has a rosewood board.
Dave Locher
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None. Very thick and dark.
CaptainWhizz
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weepingminotaur
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Definitely worth it. Both neck and bridge are super. The neck holds up under tons of gain, has a lot of punch yet can still give you smooth, creamy tones for solos. For what it's worth they also split really well.
Rex_Rocker
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Black Winter for sure. I'm a Gothenburg kinda guy as well, and the Black Winter KILLS for that sort of sound. It's my favorite passive.
Compared to the Crunch Lab, it is way tighter, brighter, more upper-mid-focused than the low-middy CL, and hell of a lot more powerful. It's more aggressive. Honestly, I'd say it's a lot more of a metal pickup, but I wasn't a fan of the Crunch Lab at all when I had one.
The Black Winter neck is also pretty cool. It's definitely not your typical plinky Duncan neck pickup. It packs some punch. It's smooth and powerful, yet still clear.
Compared to the Crunch Lab, it is way tighter, brighter, more upper-mid-focused than the low-middy CL, and hell of a lot more powerful. It's more aggressive. Honestly, I'd say it's a lot more of a metal pickup, but I wasn't a fan of the Crunch Lab at all when I had one.
The Black Winter neck is also pretty cool. It's definitely not your typical plinky Duncan neck pickup. It packs some punch. It's smooth and powerful, yet still clear.
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Ascension
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Super 3 is a very dark pickup. If your looking for thick and crunchy try a Gravity Storm set from Dimarzio. Had the bridge loved it but was just so different from anything else I had i went another direction. If I was playing more heavy stuff would grab a GS set for sure.
Shows what I know about the jackson product line.
If this guitar did still have the stock maple neck/board it would still likely fall into the "warmer highs" camp IMO, although I find maple boards to lend a more focused and brighter midrange than rosewood's usual darker and fuller midrange.
On the dimarzio website's super3 page it does list Carcass as users of the model, but I'm sure in the old days they used others including gibsons.
It's a pickup that can roll-off excessive upper-highs, but then again the right pots and/or caps could do the same thing (tone knob hello!).
The crazy hot winding of the super3 was unique for it's time, but these days there are many options for those very high dcr tones, and most others don't chop the highs as much.
My 2012 Carvin st300fr is a great host for the super3. The guitar itself is the analogical equivalent of an original jcm800,,,lows are strong but very focused in the upper-bass with hardly any depth,,,,,mids are also focused in the high-mids,,,,,and the highs are crisp to the point of what I call "hi-fi" presence. The guitar is all hard maple neck and body with an ebony board and stainless frets. The OFR also lends a bit of extra upper zing. Zingy highs and upper-midrange bite are really all the guitar is on it's own, so taming that down a couple notches has worked wonders in this case. Even with the super3 at the bridge it definitely doesn't lack bite, but now it has the thickness to go along with that.
I would rarely recommend a super3 tbh, maybe in a maple/ash/ebony/floyd guitar that was for metal, that would be about the only common scenario.
I ordered my Carvin knowing full well that it would be a tonal outlier. I wanted something that had an innately different core tone to work with for the mere sake of variety. I didn't order it with a super3 in mind, but really I should have. Most modern ceramic-based models would sound thin and/or shrill in this guitar. That's probably why Carvin always used the a5-powered m22sd back in the day.
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DeathMetalRob
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I had a 78'/59' Hybrid made - that does the job for Carcass (Surgical Steel) shredding. I like a Custom 5 (or 9 - swap for Alnico 9 magnet)
The Black Winter is generally a go to, I have a standard set, an Alnico 9, will be making a A9/A2 set. Haven't tried an A5 magnet in the BW.
Entirely, up to you. Depends on how much you want to spend and mod.
The Black Winter is generally a go to, I have a standard set, an Alnico 9, will be making a A9/A2 set. Haven't tried an A5 magnet in the BW.
Entirely, up to you. Depends on how much you want to spend and mod.
Birdman642
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Ordered the Black Winter set yesterday. I’ll post an update when they arrive
