JB/59 and Nazgul/Sentient for 2 Les Pauls?

[LandoCommando23]

New member here looking for advice on what pickups to purchase.

I have 2 Edwards LP customs on order from Japan. I'm planning on using one for drop tuned heavy riffing and the other for standard tuned rock/blues. Think Tool/Gojira and All Them Witches/Led Zeppelin tones respectively. I'm considering the Nazgul/Sentient set for the drop tuned LP and the JB/59 set for the standard. Edwards LPs come with in-house pickups now which by many accounts are rather "meh", so I would like to upgrade both of these guitars.

Just curious if this is a good choice for pickup sets or if you would choose something else for either guitar. Thank you in advance!

 

[jeremy]

welcome to the forum!

ill let other speak to the metal side since thats not my forte, but for the rock/blues side, i would suggest the whole lotta humbucker set. hotter side of the paf spectrum, they sound fantastic in a les paul. if you want something hotter in the bridge, then id look at a custom or c5

 

[weepingminotaur]

For metal, it's very hard to go wrong with the Nazgul, as long as you're someone who is OK with an upper mid-spike in your tone. I have a Naz-Sentient combo in my Eb metal guitar (not a LP, tho) and they sound great. The Nazgul has a grind to it that makes it sound hotter than it actually is. The Sentient is fully able to keep up for lead work.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Tool and Gojira actually both used JB's at some point.

I once dropped in a Nazgul in my Les Paul, and I thought it was too fat and low-mid heavy for my Les Paul. I quickly swapped it out. I now have JB's in both my Les Paul and my LTD EC. I play Metal, BTW.

 

[Mincer]

As always, I'd recommend you spend a few weeks with the guitars before you decide on which pickups. They might be overtly bright or dark, and that would absolutely change which pickups set you'd choose. For instance, on a really bright guitar, I doubt I'd choose the JB.

 

[LandoCommando23]

As always, I'd recommend you spend a few weeks with the guitars before you decide on which pickups. They might be overtly bright or dark, and that would absolutely change which pickups set you'd choose. For instance, on a really bright guitar, I doubt I'd choose the JB.

Great point. The guitars just arrived today, will take them through the paces for a while and see what they need as far as pickup voicing. Thank you sir!