New pickups for My Ibanez SV5470f

[agentOrAnGe]

My new guitar is in need of an overhaul. The stock pickups are alright, but lack clarity and are kind of bland. I am looking for a pickup that can handle any style of music from Gojira style riffs to jazz based music. I like my lows pretty tight so i was looking at MMs and a trilogy suite middle, but i wonder if it will not be as versatile. Please help. 

[MDV]

Well, full on metal and jazz....you dont have easy requirements there, even for BK versatilty.

My suggestions are gonna be weird.

One option is the crawler. It'll give you a softer edged sound than you ideally want to play things like gojira, but it can handle it. The flipside of that is it has the smoothness and the chime to do jazz.

Another that leans more to the metal side is the cold sweat, which can handle the metal end but the sacrifice is its gonna be a bit sharp for the jazz side.

Nailbomb would be in between the two, and should be considered for this.

Alternatively you could go for a warpig for the metal side and use it in parallel for the jazz side.

[agentOrAnGe]

Nailbomb would be in between the two, and should be considered for this.

Alternatively you could go for a warpig for the metal side and use it in parallel for the jazz side.

what about a nailbomb in the bridge, a crawler neck and a TS mid?

[MDV]

Its not a bad plan. The crawler neck can give you all you need: its obscencely versatile, can do anything from free to slayer and do it well (the bridge less so, but still very much so).

I wouldnt go for a trill - I'd get an IT. No question, in my mind, about that. (But I'm more of a bucker guy, I dont know much about the whole single range; I've only used ITs, trils and an ubersinner bridge).

The NB gives me some concern in getting the jazz. But I dont really play jazz so who am I to say? I've just heard lots of it. Never tried to achieve the sounds. That said, you could also parallel that, and (if one of my c-bombs in parallel is anything to go by) you should get some good tones out of it. Its not as savage or aggressive as I'de personally like for Gojira esc tones (I'd go for a PK for that) but its a good bet for the balance youre after, imo.

[agentOrAnGe]

I think i am set on a NB bridge ceramic, a crawler neck and an irish tour mid. Thanks a lot! How's the ubersinner by the way?

[MDV]

Thats probably as good as anything for the range you want (certainly on the metal end, the c-bomb is one of my favourite pickups). If not, theres a phone call to Tim and an exchange in your future I suppose.

I dont have it anymore, but it was, and presumably still is a mighty pickup. Can hang with high output humbuckers in heaviness and power, still sounds 100% single coil.

Forumite gwem now owns it.