Pickups for baritone telecaster

[ajb667]

Hi-
I'm building a guitar from scratch, and I want to put some BKP in. I've never used any, but have heard lots of praise and love the sound of them. However, I have absolutely no idea what pups to put in it.
 The guitar has a maple/wenge 26." scale neck, with a maple fret board, and the body is swamp ash with a flame maple top.
I play mostly death metal and progressive deathcore, but cleans are pretty important to me too.
What would you recommend for my new axe?   

Also depending on how much money I have left, I may just buy a single pick up.

[Dave Sloven]

You are probably best off playing the cleans through a neck pickup like a Cold Sweat and using a ceramic pickup such as a Miracle Man or ceramic Warpig in the bridge slot.

[ajb667]

You are probably best off playing the cleans through a neck pickup like a Cold Sweat and using a ceramic pickup such as a Miracle Man or ceramic Warpig in the bridge slot.

I'm really digging the warpig, it sounds really sick. The Cold Sweat (from the sound clips) is a little treble heavy, since I like my guitar kinda bassy. I'll check out some more sound clips before I decide though.

[Dave Sloven]

Remember a couple of things:

1. The clips are all in standard tuning, and the humbuckers are all recorded in a Les Paul.
2. Most of the clip is the bridge pickup ... I have a CS neck and I find it fairly dark compared to my CS bridge.  I think you might be listening to clips of the bridge pickup.

The CS neck has some of the best cleans in the range, especially the kinds of cleans that metal guys tend to favour.

[Alex]

Baritone:
Black Dog or Juggernaut.

You want lots of mids, not so much bass and treble, to compensate for what the extended scale add. Mid-rangey pickups work best, in general.