Hi, new here, first post and am looking for some ideas.
Here's the background. Years ago I acquired an ESP LTD M1000 deluxe hardtail, which had pearly gates in the bridge and jazz in neck. Love the guitar though found the pickups to be a bit thin sounding, so bought various used pickups on Ebay to find out if I could get a better sound and a neck pickup that was good match for the bridge pickup. I settled on Alternative 8 in bridge and Duncan distortion neck in neck position. The sound I was looking for, perfect so far. By the way, Steve Morse these days has the lead sound I was looking for, did try the Dimarzio Steve Morse pickup though liked the Duncan Alternative 8 better.
Then I got a secondhand Ibanez JS1000, again found the Fred pickup to be a bit too lightweight, so given my discovery of the Alt 8 with its's alnico 8 magnet, fitted a Dimarzio Satchur8 which keeps in with the Satriani theme, which is great and worked well with the stock Diamrzio PAF pro in the neck.
I now have an Ibanez JS24P. This has a full sized humbucker in bridge and single coil size at neck. Again, found the stock Dimarzio Mo'Joe bridge pickup to be lacking and I'm going to try both an Alternative 8 and Satchur8 there as a replacement. The advice I'm looking for is, is there any experience here for a suitable replacement neck pickup that would be a good match probably for the Alternative 8 in the bridge? The neck pickup is Strat single coil size and I'd be looking for a humbucker. I'm thinking of a Duncan Hot Rails neck at the moment...
Here's the background. Years ago I acquired an ESP LTD M1000 deluxe hardtail, which had pearly gates in the bridge and jazz in neck. Love the guitar though found the pickups to be a bit thin sounding, so bought various used pickups on Ebay to find out if I could get a better sound and a neck pickup that was good match for the bridge pickup. I settled on Alternative 8 in bridge and Duncan distortion neck in neck position. The sound I was looking for, perfect so far. By the way, Steve Morse these days has the lead sound I was looking for, did try the Dimarzio Steve Morse pickup though liked the Duncan Alternative 8 better.
Then I got a secondhand Ibanez JS1000, again found the Fred pickup to be a bit too lightweight, so given my discovery of the Alt 8 with its's alnico 8 magnet, fitted a Dimarzio Satchur8 which keeps in with the Satriani theme, which is great and worked well with the stock Diamrzio PAF pro in the neck.
I now have an Ibanez JS24P. This has a full sized humbucker in bridge and single coil size at neck. Again, found the stock Dimarzio Mo'Joe bridge pickup to be lacking and I'm going to try both an Alternative 8 and Satchur8 there as a replacement. The advice I'm looking for is, is there any experience here for a suitable replacement neck pickup that would be a good match probably for the Alternative 8 in the bridge? The neck pickup is Strat single coil size and I'd be looking for a humbucker. I'm thinking of a Duncan Hot Rails neck at the moment...
