New Pickups advice slight tweak!

[marshallcrunch]

Hey guys a posted a topic last week regarding my PRS Custom 22 with Unfinished Solid Rosewood neck and GIbson Les Paul.

Thanks for all the advice been having a rethink and would like further advice if possible :)

After all the posts the main thing is that I want that bright brittle top end tamed on the PRS so I have a thicker smoother lead sound. Open voiced and classic- hard rock based.

The shortlist is the Holy Diver and the Abraxas which seem the two pickups best suited to an overtly bright guitar.

I have decided against turning my PRS into a hard rock/ metal machine to be honest lol. The more I play it unplugged the more I change my mind. The wood grain is just so good and the singing sustain and reverberation is incredible. I juts need a great pickup to bring this out.

I thought about the Holy Diver as I like lots of gain and distortion and like the 70/ 80's hard rock metal vibe.

I have another guitar that perhaps will do that style of metal.

If I wanted to go a bit more traditional classic rock with the PRS what do you think would suit it. Maybe the Abraxas after all?

[Telerocker]

The Abraxas has the PAF-character for classic rock, just more output and more mids then Mules by example. I think this one does a lot of great tones, from blues to metal if neccessary. It would make the PRS very versatile.
The Diver sounds a bit more modern to my ears, but will do a lot of styles too. This one is really the metal-pu, though organic and beefy. It's one of the best BKP's for fluid solotones.

[darkbluemurder]

I already mentioned the Abraxas in the other thread as one possible option. If you want to do classic rock with the Cu 22 the Abraxas is highly recommended. They will also work very well with the 5-way selector if you specify this in your order (for this to work right the magnet of one pickup has to be reversed).

I use the Abraxas set on a PRS-style swamp ash guitar with a 4P3T toggle switch that splits both pickups in the middle position for a strat-like sound (I believe this is how the Music Man Petrucci signature is wired). This set is to stay in this guitar, and they had many predecessors.

Cheers Stephan