Hi good people I've had excellent recommendations to go and check out bare knuckle pickups.
I'm looking for a pickup replacement for my ESP Eclipse. This guitar is a solid mahogany body with quilted maple top and a rosewood fingerboard. It currently has EMG 81 in both bridge and neck positions and I find it too bassy and too much output for my style.
I'm playing mostly classic rock, hard rock and punk rock. Looking for a bridge pickup that can do screaming leads as well as heavy chording. With the neck pickup I usually play leads with the tone knob rolled off a la Guns N' Roses.
My other guitar is an ESP Horizon which is mahogany with qm top and ebony fingerboard and this guitar sounds excellent. It came stock with Seymour Duncan JB in bridge and '59 in neck.
So I'm looking for a Bareknuckle variant for this SD combination which will make my Eclipse sound like my Horizon on steroids. Judging from some clips and previous recommendations I'm having these in mind: VHII, HD, CS or RY. But there's just too many to choose from! Please help me in the right direction!