Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

[dvanburen]

Just picked up a USA Jackson soloist. Alder body, maple neck thru design, ebony fretboard and floyd rose trem. Its stock with Jb and 59. I may leave the 59 but the Jb is just ok. Honestly I think the Jb will find a home in a standard strat with an A2 mag to be honest. I wanna turn this thing into a metal machine. Pickups im considering are black winter set, nazgul/sentient or PATB1/2. Black winters may be too much, dont know. They may be too saturated and too bright in this guitar. Anybody want to chime in with suggestions or advice? I want to stick with passive duncans and i will be playing through a modded 5153

 

[vinta9e]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

Distortion or Full Shred maybe. I find the JB too spongy for a Soloist, it's great in the right bolt-on though.

 

[sosomething]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

25.5" neck-through metal machine with a Floyd, you say?

JB doesn't float your boat?

Black Winters might be too hot?

Guitar is kind of bright, acoustically?

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I'd be pretty tempted to leave the 59 in the neck and try a Jason Becker Perpetual Burn in the bridge...

 

[Mr. B]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

You might find the Becker thin compared to the 59n.

Distortion might be better.

What kind of "Metal" are you talking about?

 

[Demanic]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

Black Winters. Or put UOA5's into the JB and 59 while replacing the bass side fillister screws with hex heads. Lots more mids while keeping the high end and the hex heads will tighten up the bottom.

 

[1b4n3z]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

If I may borrow the thread, I would ask for advice on a good passive pickup combo to match the Blackouts Modular Preamp. I would hope to keep the output level at roughly Distortion level, with as close to the tonal properties of the same, as possible. The guitar is also a Soloist, quite dark sounding though. I know there is the coil pack available, but I do need a trembucker bridge pu and the coil pack is really quite impossible to find around here. 59b and jazz neck maybe?

 

[guitar74]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

The Full Shred is nice. Especially if you like chunk with definition. I have used it since the day I found it in many guitars over the years (although I use the A5 PG now and the Jb which I know you don't like). The full shred is nice though, fat and chunky, but great for defined fast soloing( i know I sound like the old ad, but it really seems to do what they claim). I may find myself going back to that pickup for at least one of my axes. I also used the Custom Custom in my metal years, although I have heard many claim that it doesn't pull of dropped tunings (never foundthat to be the case with my guitars/rig).

 

[Nacho8807]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

Just picked up a USA Jackson soloist. Alder body, maple neck thru design, ebony fretboard and floyd rose trem. Its stock with Jb and 59. I may leave the 59 but the Jb is just ok. Honestly I think the Jb will find a home in a standard strat with an A2 mag to be honest. I wanna turn this thing into a metal machine. Pickups im considering are black winter set, nazgul/sentient or PATB1/2. Black winters may be too much, dont know. They may be too saturated and too bright in this guitar. Anybody want to chime in with suggestions or advice? I want to stick with passive duncans and i will be playing through a modded 5153

It would help knowing who's version of metal you're after. Don't you normally use a Custom with a big ceramic normally? Any reason that wouldn't work?

If I may borrow the thread, I would ask for advice on a good passive pickup combo to match the Blackouts Modular Preamp. I would hope to keep the output level at roughly Distortion level, with as close to the tonal properties of the same, as possible. The guitar is also a Soloist, quite dark sounding though. I know there is the coil pack available, but I do need a trembucker bridge pu and the coil pack is really quite impossible to find around here. 59b and jazz neck maybe?

If you're looking for a pickup with the same output and tonal properties as the distortion, why not just use the distortion?

 

[1b4n3z]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

If you're looking for a pickup with the same output and tonal properties as the distortion, why not just use the distortion?

Sorry poor wording there, what I meant was Distortion-ish, but with active flavour. I know the BMP imparts quite a bit of 'the Blackouts tone' onto the circuit, so perhaps I'm just looking for a (Duncan) pickup combo weak enough not to completely overpower my other guitars. Perhaps I should hope to match the EMG 81 output levels.

 

[Gone_Shootin]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

Distortion or Full Shred maybe. I find the JB too spongy for a Soloist, it's great in the right bolt-on though.

I feel the same way about JBs. I love the ones in my Dinkys, but I have a HSS USA Soloist that has a JB & 2 JB Jrs in it and that guitar sounds muddy.

It's either going to get a Perpetual Burn (when I get around to buying pickups again) or the Screamin' Demon Trembucker I have laying around. Whichever one doesn't end up in the Soloist will go into my USA King V.

 

[orpheo]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

I'd go with the Alt8 to keep that JB flavor. It kills in my Soloist. I also love the Black Winter. The Distortion is too harsh for my taste.

 

[Demanic]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

Can't fault the Alt8. I love the one that I put in my Ibby.

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

Sorry poor wording there, what I meant was Distortion-ish, but with active flavour. I know the BMP imparts quite a bit of 'the Blackouts tone' onto the circuit, so perhaps I'm just looking for a (Duncan) pickup combo weak enough not to completely overpower my other guitars. Perhaps I should hope to match the EMG 81 output levels.

Jazz neck and bridge... But with the BMP1 its still a couple notches louder than EMG81's

 

[LatsMcGee]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

I"ll be the third guy to suggest the alt 8 in that guitar....

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: Pickup suggestions for metal machine Jackson soloist

Distortion for the win