Need help choosing pickups for project!!

[Axeman16]

Hey all,
Im currently building a project guitar. Its gonna be a metal guitar has a locking floyd and an alder body.

Bridge: For the bridge pickup (humbucker) i am looking for something that has a tight full sound with good sustain. looking for clarity but also a heavy chug tone, and something that would counteract sharp picking sounds. lookingto also install a mini on/on switch to split the coil for a single sound as well on clean. I like mustaine, alexi laiho, and petrucci sounds but youll prefer to avoid any active setups. looking at dimarzio or duncan right now but all suggestions welcome!

Neck: On the neck pickup i need a single coil but something hum cancelling. ive been looking at single sized humbuckers to get a fat juicy lead tone. Need something that will give me a nice fat lead tone on high gain but also will sound nice for clean sounds. almost like what slash has but more suited for a metal/high gain situation. Similar to dave murray's tone i would say i am looking for. again any suggestions welcome!

This is my first venture into a higher output pickup so i dont know too much about them. Also the route for the neck pickup may present some installation problems which may limit my options. no middle pickup will be installed. See pic below

 

[CTN]

Re: Need help choosing pickups for project!!

I'd go with a TB-5 Custom and either a Little '59 or a Cool Rails for the neck.

The Custom is beefy and has good clarity. Not super compressed like the Duncan Distortion, but it has a slightly rounder attack, and a big chunky low end. Tight enough for metal, cleans up really nicely, splits very nicely to a stout 7k coil.

The little '59 and Cool Rails are both articulate but smooth/fat/juicy, and will fit in that route without modifications. The Little '59 might be just a wee bit lower output and a bit more highs and lows relative to the mids, definitely has more of a PAF voicing. Cool Rails is a bit better balanced and sounds a bit more modern.

 

[Big D]

Re: Need help choosing pickups for project!!

Bareknuckle warpig in bridge. Has lots of low end, cuts through a mix, and sound great split. Dimarzio Paul Gilbert neck model would also be a great pickup to consider since it was designed to work under high gain and sounds very smooth on a clean channel.