pickups for ibanez RG

[clef47]

Whats up guys... I have an ibanez RG 620x. It's a basswood body with a maple/bubinga neck and rosewood fretboard.  It's got a humbucker at the bridge and humbucker at the neck. What I would like is a nice bridge pickup with good bass and mid response without mud. I hate piercing high's. A humbucker that can do hendrix, gilmour, srv type tones thru early metallica distortion if that's possible.  A decently powerful distortion that allows you to hear the notes, gets crunchy, and cleans up nicly with volume control to get those classic rock tones.

For the neck on this I want something that fat and warm with good high's for nice leads but not too much power, almost like a high output single coil in a humbucker body is what im looking for, to make this H-H setup more versatile. Does bareknuckle have anything like this? If so please reccommend me something from the bareknuckle lineup. I need to get these shitety pickups out of this guitar ASAP. thanks

[Tim]

Welcome to the forum :D  
for the bridge I'd recommend either a Crawler or Nailbomb, vintage edge but lots of power, they also coil split really well for that Hendrix/SRV vibe.
For the neck how about a Mississippi Queen hum bucker size P90.....single coil tone AND power too!

[clef47]

thanks Tim. Yea the nailbomb sounds good! where can I find info on the missisippi queen? a humbucker sized p90... That sounds exactly what I'm lookin for.

[HJM]

Welcome - The Nailbomb's great - you'll love it.

The MQ hasn't been officially launched - search this form for more details, you can still order them now though!

[Peterku]

I launched a thread about this earlier. The others here gave me lots of info you might find useful:

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=966&highlight=

[clef47]

thanks guys. thanks for the link peterku.

[big steve]

don't forget that hendrix, SRV and gilmour's tones are all single-coil driven, so a humbucker will be a big compromise

[clef47]

Yea I know, I am not going directly for their tones with the humbuckers, I just want humbuckers on this guitar (which is pretty much a heavy metal guitar) that will get me into that blues rock territory you know? I still want this guitar to get real heavy... just when tamed be able to get those sweet tones.

As soon as I can afford a nice strat I will get that and fit it with a trilogy set which I'm sure will get the hendrix/srv/gilmour tones a lot better. But for now I need a nice versatile 2 humbucker set that lets me get nice bluesy tones and when opened up gets into some nice heavy tones. I can almost come close to doing it on these stock v7/v8 humbuckers that come on this guitar when working with the 5-way selector and volume control, but they really just sound like shite no matter what you do. The v7 on the ibanez wouldn't be so bad if it had a tad bit more high's in it, it's pretty round and warm, but the v8 in the bridge is pure garbage. I wanna try some Bare Knuckle's. I have ass kicking amps, just waiting on some ass kicking pickups. The nailbomb/mississipi queen combo sounds awesome. I'll try the alnico IV in the Queen.

[clef47]

by the way... 52mm spacing on the bridge pickup is what I need for ths ibanez? It's got a floyd rose and I notice the outer pole peices on the stock pickups are almost completly on the inside of the high e-string and the low E-string. But on the neck the pole peices are aligned dead center with every string. So 52mm would be like F-spaced dimarzio's?

[HJM]

The Queen will sound pretty close for those single coil tones I'd guess - and yes 52mm is F-spaced!

[Peterku]

by the way... 52mm spacing on the bridge pickup is what I need for ths ibanez? It's got a floyd rose and I notice the outer pole peices on the stock pickups are almost completly on the inside of the high e-string and the low E-string.

F-spaced Dimarzios are 51 mm, tremspaced Bare Knuckles are 52 mm, so there's no significant difference.

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

by the way... 52mm spacing on the bridge pickup is what I need for ths ibanez? It's got a floyd rose and I notice the outer pole peices on the stock pickups are almost completly on the inside of the high e-string and the low E-string.

F-spaced Dimarzios are 51 mm, tremspaced Bare Knuckles are 52 mm, so there's no significant difference.

And tremspaced duncans???