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Hi to all,
I have one of the new Mockingbirds, Maple neck-through, Nyatoh body, ebony fingerboard, Floyd Rose, coil splits, phase switch and 5 position varitone. Gibson scale.
It comes stock with DiMarzio D-activators. After a year with the guitar, I think I would rather change the pickups. The D-Activators are good enough for very processed signals, like lots of distortion and effects like modulation... but in any other circumstance they lack character to my ears. They sound kind of flat, dull and unespiring, or whatever you call it, I think you get my point.
So I am looking for something to replace them that has more character. I want to keep this guitar as somewhat versatile, but also to be my most heavy oriented guitar. I play mostly Hard Rock and classic Heavy Metal with it. I won´t be going into anything djenty, modern metal or ultra-low tunning with it. I will never go past-Pantera territory and is even unlikely I will be in Pantera-land often. I would stay more in 80s early 90s kind of stuff.
I would like this guitar to be the one to use for palm muted stuff, where the palm mutes can sound powerfull. But also to have character when playing 80s or 90s.
I am open to recommendations, doesn´t need to be just Seymour Duncan, but anything you think could fit this purpose.
In other guitars I have tried JB and a Custom Custom on a 25 inch scale poplar neck through years ago and I have the Distortion set on a bolt'on Charvel 25.5 inch scale.
JB lacked a bit low end, but I remember having nice character overall. The Custom Custom had the bottom end the JB lacked but I recall it as lacking a bit of cahracter. The Distortion was a bit too much of everything for me at the start, but I ended up adjusting to it and liking it... but as I said in different guitars...
Thanks!
I have one of the new Mockingbirds, Maple neck-through, Nyatoh body, ebony fingerboard, Floyd Rose, coil splits, phase switch and 5 position varitone. Gibson scale.
It comes stock with DiMarzio D-activators. After a year with the guitar, I think I would rather change the pickups. The D-Activators are good enough for very processed signals, like lots of distortion and effects like modulation... but in any other circumstance they lack character to my ears. They sound kind of flat, dull and unespiring, or whatever you call it, I think you get my point.
So I am looking for something to replace them that has more character. I want to keep this guitar as somewhat versatile, but also to be my most heavy oriented guitar. I play mostly Hard Rock and classic Heavy Metal with it. I won´t be going into anything djenty, modern metal or ultra-low tunning with it. I will never go past-Pantera territory and is even unlikely I will be in Pantera-land often. I would stay more in 80s early 90s kind of stuff.
I would like this guitar to be the one to use for palm muted stuff, where the palm mutes can sound powerfull. But also to have character when playing 80s or 90s.
I am open to recommendations, doesn´t need to be just Seymour Duncan, but anything you think could fit this purpose.
In other guitars I have tried JB and a Custom Custom on a 25 inch scale poplar neck through years ago and I have the Distortion set on a bolt'on Charvel 25.5 inch scale.
JB lacked a bit low end, but I remember having nice character overall. The Custom Custom had the bottom end the JB lacked but I recall it as lacking a bit of cahracter. The Distortion was a bit too much of everything for me at the start, but I ended up adjusting to it and liking it... but as I said in different guitars...
Thanks!
