Pickup Suggestions for my Main Guitar *Fixed

[SCopeland24]

My main guitar is an ESP LTD JH-600. I replaced the kahler hybrid on it with a Kahler 2315 (brass cam, steel rollers) and I want to rip out the EMG 81/85 set and put in some passive pickups. I play through a Mesa Boogie Mark IV amp and sometimes a Roadster or a Marshall 6100LM which run into an Avatar 2x12 with Celetion V30s. The sound is somewhat dark with a tight, big bottom end, a lot of mids and a smooth high end. My tone as of now is pretty much this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8lUmq-V0LA but more sterile, darker and tighter. I want to have a tight yet articulate bridge pickup and a neck that can give me smooth, searing leads; but I want both to be able to clean up and do the low gain crunch. I play in E standard and play a lot of thrash and progressive metal as well as 70s rock/hard rock, 80s and early 90s metal and alternative rock (grunge), jazz, blues and some clean electric classical guitar. I want a pickup set that can cover all that ground. I have a few pup combos in mind but any input/recommendation would be appreciated. Here are the pickups I have been eyeballing:

Seymour Duncan TB-6b Distortion/TB-6n Distortion or SH-1n 59
Seymour Duncan PATB-2b Parallel Axis Trembucker Distortion/PATB-1n Parallel Axis Trembucker
Seymour Duncan Fire Blackouts
DiMarzio Crunch Lab/Liquifire
DiMarzio Super 3/Liquifire

*Seymour Duncan Black Winter set if they are released in the US.

 

[SCopeland24]

Re: Pickup Suggestions for my Main Guitar *Fixed

bump

 

[darthphineas]

Pickup Suggestions for my Main Guitar *Fixed

Either of those DMZ sets would get you there.


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[SCopeland24]

Re: Pickup Suggestions for my Main Guitar *Fixed

None of the SDs would give me a good tone with my maple neck thru-alder body, ebony fretboard guitar?

 

[SrDeMaFp]

Re: Pickup Suggestions for my Main Guitar *Fixed

None of the SDs would give me a good tone with my maple neck thru-alder body, ebony fretboard guitar?

Oh, you'll get good tone, but I agree with darthphineas that out of your choices you're probably best going with the DiMarzio's. I'd suggest AIIPro-N/JB-8 or Distortion-B if you really want Duncans.

 

[SCopeland24]

Re: Pickup Suggestions for my Main Guitar *Fixed

Not a fan of Alnico IIs but the JB8 sounds interesting.

 

[SCopeland24]

Re: Pickup Suggestions for my Main Guitar *Fixed

Out of the DMZ I think the Crunch Lab/Liquifire would be the prefered. How about the Custom series of SDs? The TB-5, Custom 5 and Custom//59 hybrid to be exact.