New neck pickup for PRS Singlecut similar to SD Alpha?

[Relic]

Hi all,

I'm currently looking to replace the neck pickup on my main guitar, a PRS Singlecut with a PRS#7 in the neck and a Tremonti Treble in the bridge. I may also be replacing the neck pickup in a PRS Singlecut Trem that I have that has the Tremonti Bass/Treble set.

All this started after I tried out the PRS SE Mark Holcomb loaded with the Duncan Alpha & Omega pickups. The neck pickup was so articulate and balanced, and when splitted it sounded beautiful! Miles ahead of the bass-heavy #7 I have in the neck right now, which isn't versatile at all, apart from being single-wired so it can't be split either. I'm looking for versatility, not boomy bass, articulate when under heavy distortion, but chimy when doing cleans in the Periphery / early-Alter Bridge style, to name 2 easy examples of what I'm looking for (and splittable for those semi-strat sounds).

Seeing as I don't want to get a full set of Alpha & Omega (I'm VERY happy with my Tremonti bridge pickup, it's my go-to pickup on most of my guitars) and overspend, what pickup from the SD catalogue would you all recommend for the neck position?

Thanks in advance!

 

[darthphineas]

Re: New neck pickup for PRS Singlecut similar to SD Alpha?

I'm currently looking to replace the neck pickup on my main guitar, a PRS Singlecut with a PRS#7 in the neck and a Tremonti Treble in the bridge. I may also be replacing the neck pickup in a PRS Singlecut Trem that I have that has the Tremonti Bass/Treble set.

All this started after I tried out the PRS SE Mark Holcomb loaded with the Duncan Alpha & Omega pickups. The neck pickup was so articulate and balanced, and when splitted it sounded beautiful! Miles ahead of the bass-heavy #7 I have in the neck right now, which isn't versatile at all, apart from being single-wired so it can't be split either. I'm looking for versatility, not boomy bass, articulate when under heavy distortion, but chimy when doing cleans in the Periphery / early-Alter Bridge style, to name 2 easy examples of what I'm looking for (and splittable for those semi-strat sounds).

Seeing as I don't want to get a full set of Alpha & Omega (I'm VERY happy with my Tremonti bridge pickup, it's my go-to pickup on most of my guitars) and overspend, what pickup from the SD catalogue would you all recommend for the neck position?

Thanks in advance!

a SE Holcomb (a variant of the C24, or rather the SE C24) won't be quite like your Singlecut, so there's that to factor in to your decision. the Alpha-Omega was supposed to be a limited run that ran its course, so I'm guessing they might only show up on places like eBay and Reverb. and you're probably right, they'd be sold in a set.

if you like the Tremonti bridge, have you considered the Tremonti neck? the Dragon II was used in the neck of the Tremonti model, prior to the signature Tremonti neck.

however, have you considered the Titan? it's the signature model used in the same band by fellow guitarist Jake Bowen. and DiMarzio has all their signature models in the production model pricing, so you won't worry about overspending. or.... when Mark Holcomb was with DiMarzio, he was using a D-Activator bridge and a Dominion neck, which DiMarzio told me were the starting points for the signature set that Mark was developing with them.

 

[Relic]

Re: New neck pickup for PRS Singlecut similar to SD Alpha?

a SE Holcomb (a variant of the C24, or rather the SE C24) won't be quite like your Singlecut, so there's that to factor in to your decision. the Alpha-Omega was supposed to be a limited run that ran its course, so I'm guessing they might only show up on places like eBay and Reverb. and you're probably right, they'd be sold in a set.

if you like the Tremonti bridge, have you considered the Tremonti neck? the Dragon II was used in the neck of the Tremonti model, prior to the signature Tremonti neck.

however, have you considered the Titan? it's the signature model used in the same band by fellow guitarist Jake Bowen. and DiMarzio has all their signature models in the production model pricing, so you won't worry about overspending. or.... when Mark Holcomb was with DiMarzio, he was using a D-Activator bridge and a Dominion neck, which DiMarzio told me were the starting points for the signature set that Mark was developing with them.

First of all, thank you ever so much for the reply!

I have the Tremonti Bass in my other guitar, and I even asked Paul Reed Smith himself and he also confirmed that the Tremonti Bass is basically the same as the #7, so same bass-heavy issues, single conductor wiring so not splittable either, and not as versatile as I'm looking for.

I've been considering either the SD Sentient (for being "tighter" than the Jazz?), although I did look at the DiMarzio Titan as well as the BK Juggernaut neck. The Alpha is out of the picture as as you mentioned before, they would perform drastically different on a Singlecut as opposed to a Cu24, so I'm in a bit of a rut, not knowing which to go for that gives me the tonal / tightness similarities of the Alpha, with the versatility of splitting it.