Noob looking for pickup suggestions please

[5thWheel]

Hi,

I just got one of these from a friend:
http://www.hohnerusa.com/index.php?322
(Hohner G3T - the site says it has an active pre-amp but in fact mine doesn't; Neck-Thru Maple/Solid Maple Body, lockable Steinberger trem)
and I'm having a tech do some little fixes & setup & stuff & I figured I'd get him to replace the pickups while he's at it.

I've currently 3 switches:
2-state: Neck single pickup on/off
2-state: Mid single pickup on/off
3-state: Bridge Humbucker on-normal/on-split (afaik)/off

so I can have one, two, or all three pickups on at any one time (or none at all, bizarrely!).

I really don't know much about pickups, I found the BKP site via google & Total Guitar magazine.
The Warpig sounds exciting (I read the review in TG which makes it sound perfect ("heavy as hell...awesome rock tone...very sweet clean tone...real all-rounder"), and also it is easy on the eye:), but apart from that I'm a bit lost!

Can anyone recommend anything?

I've spent the last three years or so getting lessons and doing loads of excercises and stuff, so I can't play too many actual songs so well yet (I'm ok with a couple of Metallica songs, "Since you been gone" by Rainbow, some stuff by Hole & Radiohead & that solo from Stairway:)!  <<< What I can play is fairly representative of the stuff I like and would like to play (Radiohead, Muse, Mark Lanegan, Nirvana, early/mid Metallica & rockish stuff generally, lots of 80's pop-punk & derivatives thereof (Long Blondes), the moshier Queens of the Stone Age stuff, Rob Zombie, Opeth, maybe Early Paradise Lost, & I on&off like the White Stripes).  Hopefully all of that <<< is useful (it reads like a myspace:). 

I mainly guess I want to improve on my current set of "EMG Select"'s, but don't want to get something that is super-restrictive (I've only really heard one of the EMG's, the other two are kindof screwy ATM, but a couple of ppl have said I'll want to replace them anyway so here I am).  I find the writeups and reviews kindof confusing, as they all seem to say "all aspects are awesome":)  Then again, maybe at my level they are all going to sound awesome to me anyway & I should just buy something shiny:D

TIA!

[MDV]

So, varied tastes, leanig toward the metal a bit, rock mostly, from the looks of it

I'm gonna say, nailbombs.

And welcome to the boards!

[5thWheel]

So, varied tastes, leaning toward the metal a bit, rock mostly, from the looks of it
I'm gonna say, nailbombs.
And welcome to the boards!

Thanks!
& D'oh, cos the pigs look so raaawk: I actually dreamed about them last night :D
Any suggestions for neck/mid SC's? I see I can get a HSS set with the NB & Irish Tour's, so I guess they fit together nicely?
Hello from a fellow Cumbrian BTW :)

[MDV]

Aye, IT's'll be allreet marra. Theres anutha yan yood like an-all: trillogies. Mare poowa in 'em. Darker, like, eh, but the'll gaa well wid a nailmomb.

I mean, errr, yes. The ITs would do well in there, but they lean toward hot-blues. Very glassy clean, lots of mids. Trills are shred machines. Thick and woody, but that stien would probably benefit from a darker tone.

Oh, yeah, greetings from sunny Whitehaven!

[5thWheel]

Good grief, do you *live* on these boards, **7 minute response time**!
Thanks! Looks aside, I was leaning towards a nailbomb/trilogy combo, so that is probably what is Meant To Be.
I will now form a band called "Nailbomb Trilogy".  Thankyou again :D

[MDV]

Das alreet marra. 'Av fun wid em!

[MDV]

Oh, for the record, I hate cumbrian. I MUCH prefer....oh.....I dunno....ENGLISH?

(Apologies if you have a cumbrian accent, but I'm afraid I wont budge on this!).

[indysmith]

Thanks!
& D'oh, cos the pigs look so raaawk: I actually dreamed about them last night :D

You do know that the Nailbombs can come with camo covers if you want? Also - If you really want it to look like a 'Pig, you can ask for allan bolts aswell for polepieces!

[5thWheel]

You do know that the Nailbombs can come with camo covers if you want? Also - If you really want it to look like a 'Pig, you can ask for allan bolts aswell for polepieces!

Whee, thanks! I just got the same info from MDV via PM (thanks, both!).  I knew I could get camo+screws, but the dual rows of allen bolts were what were really doing it for me: like you suggest, I'll ask about that and then I'm happy.
I'm going to go for Pig-look Nailbombs with Trilogy single-coils & I'm also going to ask Tim about getting matching covers for the Trilogys 'cos apparently they did this experimentally a while back.  I'm still dithering between the bare-distressed finish & black at the moment, but I'll post pics of whatever I end up with when I get them.

@ MDV: I've lived in Cumbria all my life except for 3 years in Salford, but my accent is weird, my Mum talks like a 50's BBC voiceover (even tho she's from Drigg!) so I got called "Posh Nosh" at primary school (by a kid whos parents could afford to get him a Big Trak for Christmas too! I would have eaten my parents for a Big Trak!)  Southerners peg me as a northerner, and northerners think I'm a southern jessie:)

[MDV]

A big trak? Anyway, one sees.

My mums from wales via cleator moor (what? It wasnt that bad then) and dads from india via london. Both speak straight english. Oddly, people think I'm from america, australia, NZ, south africa and occasionally 'southern'. I get a lot of "Ooo, thouse nut fre rund 'ere, eh?".

Despite that, I was born in whitehaven and have lived only 4 years in manchester and a few months in london (I'm 26)