Outa_Tune
New member
I am going to reconfigure my early 80's Strat, it currently has the everything axe pickup set in it which I don't like. I play through a Marshall DSL-40C, play mostly older hard rock and metal like Priest, Zep (Physical grafitti era), Sabbath, and stuff like that with this guitar.
The everything axe pickup set just doesn't do it for me, the JB-jr lacks crunch, the duckbucker doesn't have that good squawk sound, and the lil59 sounds boring to me. Before I used the everything axe set I had a hotrails in the bridge, and a dimarzio area in the neck, I liked those pickups but just got bored with them. I am not able to get the JBjr to sound big, mean and full with pedals and gain like the hot rails did. Probably good pickups, just not my style.
All that said, I'm thinking of going to a HH config. Routing is no big deal for me. I'm not worried about cost and I am sentimentally attached to this guitar so I am not interested in selling it and buying something already in HH. I am thinking HH because I think going to full sized humbuckers will give me more tone, sustain and harmonics, generally a better sound than single coil sized humbuckers can produce. I was thinking HS might also be OK, as long as the neck was noise cancelling.
So the question is, will the full sized humbuckers give me that extra I want over the single coils? I can always just put the hot rails back if there is no gain in going to a full sized HB.
What would you suggest for pickups based on what I like to play?
BTW, I'm one of those guys that picks right over the middle pickup, so I usually set it really low and hardly ever use it. Would be nice to not have a middle pickup.
The everything axe pickup set just doesn't do it for me, the JB-jr lacks crunch, the duckbucker doesn't have that good squawk sound, and the lil59 sounds boring to me. Before I used the everything axe set I had a hotrails in the bridge, and a dimarzio area in the neck, I liked those pickups but just got bored with them. I am not able to get the JBjr to sound big, mean and full with pedals and gain like the hot rails did. Probably good pickups, just not my style.
All that said, I'm thinking of going to a HH config. Routing is no big deal for me. I'm not worried about cost and I am sentimentally attached to this guitar so I am not interested in selling it and buying something already in HH. I am thinking HH because I think going to full sized humbuckers will give me more tone, sustain and harmonics, generally a better sound than single coil sized humbuckers can produce. I was thinking HS might also be OK, as long as the neck was noise cancelling.
So the question is, will the full sized humbuckers give me that extra I want over the single coils? I can always just put the hot rails back if there is no gain in going to a full sized HB.
What would you suggest for pickups based on what I like to play?
BTW, I'm one of those guys that picks right over the middle pickup, so I usually set it really low and hardly ever use it. Would be nice to not have a middle pickup.
