Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

[Dan_Daisy]

Hello to all! I'm a newbie and more excited than i should be about being part of this site - woohoo! Nice to finally feel at home with others who share my thoughts / concerns / mumblings / obsessions!
I have a question to you all but will se tthe scene with my gear - I own 2 PRS guitars - a Mira and a Santana SE. The Mira is concert pitch and the Santana is used in Eb tuning. I put these through an Orange TH30 Combo. I have a DL4, Eh chorus, Moer Verb, Eh Q-Tron, Joyo Roll Boost and Boss GE-7 graphic pedals.
Now the question - I have joined a covers band who play 80's rock (not metal) and do tribute nights to Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko and U2 as well as others thrown in to please the crowd like Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Guns n Roses, Ac/Dc, Police, etc. Is there a set of pickups you would recomend to cover all these bases that i could install in both or either of my guitars? They are both stock at present.
Please bare in mind that I have to play shimmering clean / edgy effected parts, alongside crunch rhythm and blazing delayed leads - sometimes in the same song ('Here I Go Again on my Own' for example).
Gentlemen and Ladies yout time and thoughts will be much appreciated
Thank You
Dan

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

JB. End of story.


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[CountFeedback]

Re: Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

JB & Jazz set

 

[Dan_Daisy]

Re: Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

Ok that was quick! - no other suggestions guys? What about coil tapping those are they any good once they are tapped? I know all about the JB and the Jazz pup in the neck set in a les paul type set up but just thought things may have moved on a tad since i was last a buyer of Seymour stuff back in the early 90's!
Cheers
:bigthumb:

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

you're not gonna be "tapping" those pickups. but you can split them or wire them for parallel. either way, "any good" depends on what your definition of "any good" is going to be.

 

[Dan_Daisy]

Re: Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

I was thinking of strat type sounds for clean passages and not using it for dirty at all. The single coil sounds on my Mira are pathetic and was wondering if changing the stock p'ups to Seymours and utilising one of the coils might give me a better sound? What you think?

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[CountFeedback]

Re: Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

The terms get confusing: tap, split, inbetween sound, out of phase, etc...
Tapping a pick-up generally refers to having a single coil with extra winds on it and a switch to go between regular output and beefed up (with the extra winds) output.
Splitting a humbucker (often referred to as tapping, I say it all the time myself) is making individual coils available for a more fender type sound.

The JB & Jazz both have a cool zingy sound split not 100% strat but an acceptable texture for Compressor & Chorus 80s clean sounds.
The Jazz has plenty of clean zing even when not split, and an articulate singing lead sound with drive.
there are other options but when you say "80s Rock Hits" the first instinct is The JB.
Could go more vintage 59, Seth Lover, etc.. but for that Hair Spray Rock stuff the JB should make it easy, and it gets by fine for most 70s/80s/90s rock.
Could mix it up; maybe JB & Alnico II pro Neck.

Most of the SD Humbuckers are stock with 4 connector wire for splitting/parallel/reverse phase options but some of the vintage output pickups (59, seth lover) you have to specify 4 conductor and maybe special order it.

 

[Christopher Caruana]

Re: Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

JB/Jazz set

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Pickups for playing in a Bon Jovi | Queen | Jacko | 80's rock covers band?

I was thinking of strat type sounds for clean passages and not using it for dirty at all. The single coil sounds on my Mira are pathetic and was wondering if changing the stock p'ups to Seymours and utilising one of the coils might give me a better sound? What you think?

for what you're describing, you'd be golden with the JB/Jazz set.