Hey guys! Firstly I hope I'm not posting this in a wrong area.... I'm new here so I'm not sure as to where everything goes.
Anyhow, I'm getting a Carvin 727 in a few weeks and I'm trying to find a suitable set of pickups to replace the stock ones.
I love metal so my primary sounds I'm going for are going to be heavy distorted sounds, though I'm also looking for good clean tones. For the distorted rhythm tones I'm looking for something that can handle several different type of tones; I love black and viking metal so I'm looking for something that can have the drony-ness of Enslaved or Emperor while actually being able to hear the notes. I'm also fond of djent, prog, and power metal so something that can also have a tight, clean yet punchy sound. Less crunchy ala 80's metal. An example of a rhythm tone I like is that of Devin Townsend on Deconstruction, and Ola Englund's tone on his youtube videos demoing the Elmwood Modena, and the DAR Future Breed Machine FBM 100 (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFIUTY5vpWY). Also have been digging the new Obscura album (Omnivium) and the tone is pretty nice. It's through an ENGL e530 preamp and that's what I intend on getting a hold of....
For leads I'm looking for something soaring, smooth, with a nice amount of overtones. So less like say, Jeff Loomis's lead tone where every note is sort of.... sticky in a way, but more fluid like Jari Maenpaa's lead tone. Every note in his solos is like water just flowing... it's quite nice. I originally was looking at Petrucci's Liquifire, but upon more demoing I've found that it wasn't just quite what I was looking for.... hearing demos of Cold Sweats completely blew the other lead pickups I've tried!
For cleans, I'm looking for something relatively flat, so it sounds more like an acoustic than a twangy strat. I'm not looking for pickups that will make my guitar sound like an acoustic, I'm well aware that that is impossible. I'm just looking for something that has a really dynamic, flat sound. IE as close as possible with magnetic pickups. I would invest in a piezo.... but I don't have an upwards of 400$ plus the money for magnetic pickups lying around.
The guitar I'm getting is a neck thru Alder body with a Claro Walnut top, a 5 piece maple neck with 2 walnut stripes, and all with a satin and tung oil finish.
After speaking with a sails rep from BKP, the pickups I'm looking at right now is an alnico Nailbomb in the bridge and either a Cold Sweat or Nailbomb in the neck. I'm just worried of having an overly bright tone with my guitars.
Cheers!
EDIT: And yes, I'm aware routing will be required to fit new pups into the guitar....
