Single coils for a bright guitar

[JustBecos]

Hello All

I hope you can me out

I am looking for some advice on pickups to get for a guitar I'm building at the moment.

With the materials I'm using it will probable be naturally very bright sounding (padauk body, bublinga bolt on neck, ebony board), and I'm a bit worried it will sound a bit harsh.

Orginally I was thinking to go high output (trilogy set) as overwinding increased bass and reduces treble, but really I want a more (hot) vintage vibe to the sound. I mainly play with low to medium OD with some cleans ranging from blues to hard rock. I'm not looking to get a particular persons sound, which is part of the reason for the slightly unusual choice of materials (the other being that was what I could get hold of a good price)

I suppose what It comes down to is,

Would an Apache set with zinc plates work, increasing the bottom end so over all the output appearing less bright?

Or would a slowhands set be good (possibly with base plates), It says they have darker sound though there are very few clips to listen too.


any thoughts would be appreciated

Cheers

Justbecos

[Brow]

I would consider a set of Irish Tours in that guitar if it were me.

I have a pair in the neck and middle of a 'Standard' Strat and really like how their slightly darker sound really thickens up the single coil tone :)

[MDV]

By reputation, I'd say slowhands w/baseplates.

The triliogies are quite dark. They clean up very well and have a pure single coil tone, but its on steroids and can sit with a warpig or miracle man quite happily. But control your gain, or volume, and they can give really nice lower-gain tones. But they dont have a vintage vibe. Good at low gains, yes, but not 'vintage'

[_tom_]

I had a trilogy and it sounded good in the neck position, but bridge was really thin sounding (though to be fair I did just put the neck trilogy in the bridge position so maybe its not voiced for that). I actually swapped out the pickups for those of a different brand (wont say who on here, if you're interested PM me) and much prefered the tone.