this sounds like an interesting idea Nolly, trying some of the medium hot series.. According to your opinion does the emerald 7 still retain 'body' while being bright? cause looking at the chart, i'd say it would be thin as a final result..
here's my thing- I used to have a painkiller 7 in my guitar which used to sound great with some amps, but i found it too shrill with a piercing upper mid spike and with my boogie mk5, it just did not sound pleasing and had that terrible quack on upper strings..
then i switched over to a holydiver7 which made a better result and instantly gave me a push in the lows and 'body' but not in those FQs i was thinking it would.. the deal is that even with the bass side of the pickup being lower than the treble side, there's still too much bass and less definition as if it was trying to fight with my guitar's natural voice :) if i leave it too low, the sound looses compression and becomes rounder, which just sounds weird with staccatos and with the whole PUP being too high the bass gets even more present and does not allow higher pitched strings to sound even once i reach out for comples chords..
so at least I know that I should be looking for something with alnico 5 which sounds less shrill than the ceramic painkiller but with a simlar sound in terms of compression and tightness but with less quack, less harsh spike and more 'chug'.. so my idea would be- A-bomb or Emerald7 or VHII7
