Help me with combination HSS pickups for hard rock

[manuel]

Hello,

My name is Manuel and I am from Spain, greetings กกก

First sorry for my english, i have a les paul with black dog and mule in neck, IMO, great combination. But recently  i have purchased a yamaha rgx1212s, HSS superstrat, alder body, floyd and ebony fretboard, a heavy metal machine, like soloist or charvel, i want a HSS combination for 80s soung, hard rock and hair heavy metal, i need your help with this project.

BRIDGE...........HOLY DIVER, THIS IS FOR SURE

MEDIUM............HELP  i dont know dimarzio the chopper or stk-s4 or irish tour

NECK................JUST THE SAME, help me, idont know the chopper or stk-s4 or hs-2


Please help me with this,

THanks to all, greets from Spain `กกกก

[Kiichi]

Hi and welcome mate!

The Irish Tour certainly pairs very well with the holy diver. It is taking a classic single coil adding power, mids, bottom end, slightly mellowing out the high end, and a hit of magical rock dust. It has all the classic character, but handles gain better and really comes alive under dirt. Another option would be the Slowhand, which is kinda like a irish tour taken one step further. All that I listed about the IT, but more. Depends on what you are aiming for.

[Telerocker]

Hi and welcome mate!

The Irish Tour certainly pairs very well with the holy diver. It is taking a classic single coil adding power, mids, bottom end, slightly mellowing out the high end, and a hit of magical rock dust. It has all the classic character, but handles gain better and really comes alive under dirt. Another option would be the Slowhand, which is kinda like a irish tour taken one step further. All that I listed about the IT, but more. Depends on what you are aiming for.

+1.

[Chris Rowberry]

Hi and welcome mate!

The Irish Tour certainly pairs very well with the holy diver. It is taking a classic single coil adding power, mids, bottom end, slightly mellowing out the high end, and a hit of magical rock dust. It has all the classic character, but handles gain better and really comes alive under dirt. Another option would be the Slowhand, which is kinda like a irish tour taken one step further. All that I listed about the IT, but more. Depends on what you are aiming for.

+2!

[darkbluemurder]

BRIDGE...........HOLY DIVER, THIS IS FOR SURE

MEDIUM............HELP  i dont know dimarzio the chopper or stk-s4 or irish tour

NECK................JUST THE SAME, help me, idont know the chopper or stk-s4 or hs-2

Fully agree on the bridge choice. That's what sits in my ash/maple HSS strat.

Middle/neck: you specified pickups that are very different from each other. The Chopper does not really sound like a single coil - it's more like a hot PAF type humbucker, so if you want a single coil tone from these positions, the Chopper would not be the one I'd recommend. I am not familiar with the STK-S4 at all.

An important question is whether you want/need a humcancelling pickup in these positions. This may not be very important if you use these positions for clean tones mostly or if you prefer neck+middle for driven tones (you can get that position humcancelling by choosing a reverse wound reverse polarity (RWRP) pickup). For me personally it's important as I often use the neck pickup with high gain so I cannot stand 60 cycle hum. Since BKP currently does not make such pickups (this maybe subject to change in the very near future though) the pickups I have in my HSS strat are not BKPs.

Cheers Stephan