Just like the post says. I am looking for a replacement neck pickup for my jackson pc1. Its a mahogany body, maple top, maple neck and board. I have a dimarzio single coil size humbucker in there and it sounds muddy. What are you guys using?
Re: Whats a good sounding single coil size humbucker neck pickup
Well what Dimarzio is it? A lot of pickups can be muddy in the neck position of a mahogany bodied guitar. And are you going for a single coil sound? a PAF sound? an in-between of those two sound?
There are few legends spun on these boards that approach the "Cool Rails Neck" legend.
For 2 years, all I did was hear about how it was the "end all" neck HB for Strat and that players were getting SRV to Buddy Guy to Cream era Clapton all from this one pickup. I finally heard one in a Framus Diablo and well,
THE LEGEND IS TRUE. If you like a bluesy, slightly greasy neck pickup with an equal amount of "beef" and "glass", this is it. It's also hotter than the word "cool" may indicate.
I would go so far to say that if I ever built a signature model guitar for myself, I would use a slanted Cool Rails as the neck pickup.
It's beautiful.
Re: Whats a good sounding single coil size humbucker neck pickup
The 3rd generation Dimarzio's are really good (the 2nd were good, too)! They are called the 'Area' series. I have the 2nd gen in a Hamer Daytona strat copy (Virtual2's) and I really like them.....so much so I haven't swapped them for the Area's yet.