Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: halikus on January 25, 2016, 02:32:27 PM
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Hi all, I Have a PRS SC245 LTD in jet white that is looking for some love.
I believe it has the stock 245 pickups which aren't really my thing I find the bridge to be a little weak in the low mids and a little brittle on the top end leading to some slightly fuzzy treble which I don't like really. Though I like the output on them as my amp is known to enjoy mid/low out put pickups. Id lik somthing with some bottom end girth, strong grindy mids and a smooth as you like top with no fizz whatsoever.
The stock neck pickup was never to my taste being way to boomy, frankly theres more bass end than I could ever want and despite dropping the bass side to the bottom of the cavity it still didn't do it for me. Then it developed a wiring fault and now only works intermittently... I really like neck pickups to be very very open and woody and suitable for clean and lead work. I currently have a coldsweat neck in another guitar which I really love but would like somthing a little less compressed and obv lower output.
I play mostly hard rock and some more proggy stuff on accasion, alter bridge is about as gainy as Il get on this guitar as I have others for real high gain applications.
Gear wise this will all be going into a Diezel Herbert via a Zilla 2x12 with creambacks. the herbert likes lower output pickups so I was hoping to try somthing low/mid output as every other guitar I own has high outputs.
Initially I'm drawn to a blackdog set or maybe blackdog/emerald or VHII but id really appreciate any input anyone has or any oddball suggestions that might suit the guitar.
Thanks for looking
Pete
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That seems like a candidate for a Mule set or an Abraxas set IMHO. You might find the Emeralds a bit too bright/fizzy.
Also, if the boominess of the neck pickup is your main issue with it, you might want to consider swapping its magnet (most likely an Alnico 5) with an Alnico 4 rather than replacing the pickup wholesale.
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I recently put Rebel Yells in my Stripped 58 with fantastic results!
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I've recently put a C-Bomb in my 2004 Singlecut.
And I think that pickup does what you ask it to do.
Maybe the C-Bomb is a little on the loud side, so you might consider a A-Bomb, this probably cleans up a little better.
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Black dog sounds great with diezels, in my experience with the Einstein and VH4S
But the Abraxas sounds like a better fit for the Alter Bridge stuff (for the Myles Kennedy thing, not Tremonti's)
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Abraxas or, a tad hotter and more modern, a Holy Diver.
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I have the Abraxas set in my PRS Bernie Marsden and they are all sorts of wonderful.
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FWIW my setup until recently was a Herbert into a Zilla superfatboy with creambacks! Now I play a kemper instead :grin:
The Blackdog bridge was always my go-to pickup for recording - always sounds amazing - fat, grinding with lovely low-mids, etc. And the most open, vocal, woody neck pickup I've got is a Stormy Monday, so if I were you I'd try a BD/SM combo :grin: