Idea For a Cheap Solidbody to Leave in Drop C

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Redbowties88 said:
Ok so I should have the guitar by tomorrow night, an Epi Jr. upgraded tuning machines and also a push/pull volume to split the stock bucker.....

So now I need pickup recommendations... I'm considering trying one of the Uber cheap pickups from either Dragonfire or guitarheads. I figure for <$40 it might be worth a shot. I would be willing to spend more though for a decent quality Duncan or dimarzio.

What do you guys think?
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I think you should head over to the Trading Post. There's some fat deals lurkin' from some awesome guys.
 
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The pickup that immediately jumps to mind is a dimarzio super distortion. I think the JB would work awesome, as well as any of the metal pickups from SD like the Invader and the Black Winter. Always Blackouts too, if you wanna put a battery in.

Or you could get an EQ pedal. You can pretty much turn any pickup into a metalcore pickup with an EQ pedal and enough distortion. The stock pickup will work fine for that sorta business.
 
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it's sort of too bad you already purchased the guitar. There's a guy selling a Godin Redline 1pup in the Trader area for 235usd with a screaming EMG in it. It's exactly the guitar you want if you like green.
 
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I did see that, but it's a little more then I wanted to spend for a guitar that's hardly going to be used. Also I wanna stay passive with this one.


That is a beautiful guitar though
 
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jon the art guy said:
The pickup that immediately jumps to mind is a dimarzio super distortion. I think the JB would work awesome, as well as any of the metal pickups from SD like the Invader and the Black Winter. Always Blackouts too, if you wanna put a battery in.

Or you could get an EQ pedal. You can pretty much turn any pickup into a metalcore pickup with an EQ pedal and enough distortion. The stock pickup will work fine for that sorta business.
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+1 on the Black Winter. I'm really liking my set.

OP, here's the thread about it and what those of us who have Black Winters have had to say so far: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?262447-Black-Winter-owner-Feedback-so-far

And if you do go with BWs, my advice is to use 500k pots, and play around with cap values until you find the sweet spot.
 
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The plan is to run it without any pots at first and see how I like it. I modified a old p bass copy and wired the pickup straight to the jack and it improved the sound 10x. I figure it's at least worth the try
 
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