Pickup recommendation

[andygifted]

I have a Telecaster which I installed the STHR-1 in the bridge position and I love the sound I'm getting.

I now have a Les Paul and a Jaguar HH which I now want to upgrade the same way, so all three guitars have a consistent sound so when I change guitar on stage for an alternate tuning my sound is the same and I don't have to tinker with my setup.

As both these guitars have Humbucker sized pickups I was wondering which of the Seymour Duncan range that fit will have the closest sound to the hot rails I have in the Tele.

Thanks for your help

Andy

 

[andygifted]

Pickup recommendation

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[dominus]

Re: Pickup recommendation

I don't think that you're going to get a perfectly consistent sound out of three wildly different guitars like those.

Maybe Duncan Custom in the LP and JB or Distortion in the Jaguar.

 

[Artie]

Re: Pickup recommendation

I'm thinking that folks are slow to respond because it might be difficult to get a LP and/or a Jag to sound like a HR-in-a-Tele. :scratchch

Is having two other Tele's an option?


(Me and dominus were thinking along the same lines at the same time.) :naughty:

 

[andygifted]

Re: Pickup recommendation

I hear what you're saying, I know that the guitars have very different characteristics but what I'm getting at is, regardless of the guitar, which of the humbucker sized pickups is closest to my hotrails. To be honest I put my guitar sound through so much distortion (playing industrial metal) that the characteristics of the guitars, tonality wise from the body shapes etc doesn't really matter and sound I have is all down to the pickup used. The standard humbuckers in the jag still sound too thin so I want something that'll beef it up. And although the Les Paul has a nice beefy sound I want something with a lot more gain and meat to it like I now get with the hot rails in the Tele.

 

[andygifted]

Re: Pickup recommendation

Well it's the stock pickups in the LP which is an Epiphone LP Custom Silverburst. The Hot Rails in the Tele have just so much more gain in them and if I change to the LP from the Tele I have to push the volume on the amp to match it.

Also my natural sound on the amp I have a little overdriven so it's dirty when clean if that makes sense. When the LP is plugged in it sounds slightly driven but then the hotrails tele sounds very overdriven almost distorted in comparison, so there's a big gain difference

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Pickup recommendation

the LP which is an Epiphone

Controversial.

The Hot Rails in the Tele have just so much more gain in them

IMO, two tin cans with a length of string stretched between them would have more gain than an MIK Epiphone humbucker.