clund
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I need some advice about selecting some pickups… And hope you can help.
I have an old Kramer Stagemaster ---
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--- That is not my actual guitar but it is the EXACT Same guitar I have.
In the 90’s I put EMG’s in the guitar and I am sick of them. It is a HSS configuration, and I have been looking at some of the different SD Pickups.
I already have a PRS CE24 w/ Dual stock Humbuckers, Fender Strat w/ Fender Custom Shop ‘69s / and a PRS SE with P90’s. So I have a group of guitars with a pretty wide tone spectrum when it comes to pickups.
In this Kramer, I want to stay away from Single Coil Hum… So I was thinking of using this configurations - H = SH-4 (JB) or SH-5 Custom or maybe something else?????
BUT the MID and Neck I don’t know which to use? Need Suggestions - I know the guitar came stock with a Seymour Duncan JB and 2 SSL-1's (not 100% on the singles, but pretty sure) --- I don't really want to have the single coil fender sound, but I don't want a full humbucker either - Something hot but not full humbucker... In between I suppose. But the most important thing - no hum... have to deal with it on my strat and I am over it... Love the strat sound, hate the strat hum.
My band plays rock covers like Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stoneage… And some other standard / alternative Rock. I also use this guitar for drop tunings - mostly Drop C and Eb (Sword - Alice in Chains).
Any suggestions and/or Idea’s of which pickup would fit best in which position for my variety of music would be MUCH – MUCH appreciated.
Thanks,
Corey
P.S. --- > More info: I play through at H&K Trilogy and GT-8 with a Marshall 4x12 with G12T-75's & V30's in X configuration.
I have an old Kramer Stagemaster ---
--- That is not my actual guitar but it is the EXACT Same guitar I have.
In the 90’s I put EMG’s in the guitar and I am sick of them. It is a HSS configuration, and I have been looking at some of the different SD Pickups.
I already have a PRS CE24 w/ Dual stock Humbuckers, Fender Strat w/ Fender Custom Shop ‘69s / and a PRS SE with P90’s. So I have a group of guitars with a pretty wide tone spectrum when it comes to pickups.
In this Kramer, I want to stay away from Single Coil Hum… So I was thinking of using this configurations - H = SH-4 (JB) or SH-5 Custom or maybe something else?????
BUT the MID and Neck I don’t know which to use? Need Suggestions - I know the guitar came stock with a Seymour Duncan JB and 2 SSL-1's (not 100% on the singles, but pretty sure) --- I don't really want to have the single coil fender sound, but I don't want a full humbucker either - Something hot but not full humbucker... In between I suppose. But the most important thing - no hum... have to deal with it on my strat and I am over it... Love the strat sound, hate the strat hum.
My band plays rock covers like Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stoneage… And some other standard / alternative Rock. I also use this guitar for drop tunings - mostly Drop C and Eb (Sword - Alice in Chains).
Any suggestions and/or Idea’s of which pickup would fit best in which position for my variety of music would be MUCH – MUCH appreciated.
Thanks,
Corey
P.S. --- > More info: I play through at H&K Trilogy and GT-8 with a Marshall 4x12 with G12T-75's & V30's in X configuration.
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