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Ok guys i need HELP!!! i need a good bridge humbucker for an ader body maple neck strat. one of my favorite sounding guitars i have now is a schecter c1 XXX mahogany body mahogany set neck with a JB in the bridge...it's perfect IMO. my other main guitar is a alder body maple neck tele with a tele hotrails in the bridge. now i want to get my strat to sound similar to one of those. i tried a duncan distortion it was too thin...invader was too muddy and harsh i guess you could say...hot rails was too harsh sounding not a warm full sound...it's nothing like the tele hotrails, since it's hotter at 16.9k vs. 14.8k. so.... what do i try next? i think the JB although i love it in mahogany will be too thin in an alder/maple strat...i'm thinking of the custom, the custom 5 or a dimarzio air zone (any others? brand doesn't matter i just want sound!!). the pickup does not have to do clean(i have other guitars for that), strictly a warm and full sounding high gain. i play mostly metal and punk through a peavey ultra plus...my typical amp settings are bass at about 8-10 mids about 3-4.5 and highs 8-10...i like a thick sound. i know a maple neck alder body strat isn't the guitar to get this sound but i love the guitar and there must be a pickup out there to find a sound similar to my schecter from it. thanks for any help and if you have any high gain clips of pickups i may like please post them!!
if all else fails i may order a full size rail humbucker version of the tele hotrails but if i can find an off the shelf pickup i like and save cash i'm all for it!
-Mike
if all else fails i may order a full size rail humbucker version of the tele hotrails but if i can find an off the shelf pickup i like and save cash i'm all for it!
-Mike
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it doesn't have to sound 100% the same (it never could) but it needs a similar usable sound for me...so if i decide to use it at a rehersal or a gig on a song i wrote with my tele or schecter it won't sound so far off that i hate the sound...
