New pups for Gibson Explorer

[xylophoneichel]

Hey guys!
I got my new Gibson Explorer for two weeks now and I love how it looks, I love how it feels and I quite like how it sounds, but don't love it.
So I'm thinking of changing the pups, but instead of putting again EMGs in one of my guitars I want to try something new and that's why I'm here, obviously.
I'm a little bit overwhelmed by the amount of different available BKS humbuckers, so I really hope you guys can help me.

As I said the guitar is a Gibson Explorer, mahogany body, glued mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard.
I mainly play 80s like stuff: Hard Rock, Rock, Heay Metal, Thrash Metal, with the main focus on Thrash.
AC/DC, Motörhead, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, to mention some bands.

The guitar will nearly without exception be used for rhythms and mostly played in standard, maybe sometimes half-step-down or dropped C tuning.
So the bridge pick up will be played highly distorted and should deliver a very punchy, in-your-face sound with lots of attack in the mid/treble region.
I would also like to use the neck pick up for cleans only, so this one should be able to deliver a full, warm clean tone.

Right now I'm thinking of combining a Miracle Man or a ceramic Nailbomb on the bridge with a Black Dog on the neck, but I'm not really sure if that's the right combination for me.



I really hope you can help me and sorry for my horrible grammar, I'm from Germany and I sucked in English class back in the day.

 

[Modular1]

Im sure there are people on here that will give you much better advice on which pickups to get than i can, but i thought I'd just let you know that your English is pretty spot on!

The miracle man sounds like a good starting point for your bridge.

[Telerocker]

The Miracle Man or the Ceramic Warpig.

[Transcend]

Miracle Man in the bridge and Mississippi queen in the neck!

I play pretty much exactly what you play with a mahogany RGA and have the above pickup combo and it works extremely well.

I also use the neck exclusively for cleans and some lead tones and it is without the doubt my favourite non active neck pickup for this purpose

[xylophoneichel]

Thanks for that tip, I most likely gonne use the MM/P90-MQ combination, but I have one last question:
If I use two so different pick ups, isn't there going to be a huge difference in volume?

I really hate it when the neck pick up is far louder than the bridge one, which happens with my EMG 81/85 equipped guitar. I can't even use the middle position of the three-way-toggle, because the neck pup is so much louder that it barely makes any difference in just using the neck alone.

[ericsabbath]

painkiller

[Ratrod]

painkiller

+1

[PhilKing]

I have a Warpig/MQ combo in an Explorer and they blend really well.  The MQ's have more output then you might think. 

[Transcend]

the MQ balances perfectly well with the miracle man in my guitar. Theres no volume/output jump at all despite the 9k difference

[Isa]

I like that someone else uses neck for cleans. Like yourself, all mahogany, Gibson V though. The Holy Diver in my neck has been one of the best things thats ever happened to my guitar. Beautiful cleans even through a high gain amp (volume knob down). Granted, its a little edgy even then, and bass strings can be trouble zone, but Medieval cleans to melt the heart.

[Transcend]

but Medieval cleans to melt the heart.

This is what im currently loving about my MQ neck.

I shall hopefully be posting a clip of my new song up later today to show this off!

[xylophoneichel]

I shall hopefully be posting a clip of my new song up later today to show this off!

I would really appreciate that.
I have to say I'm not entirely convinced by the sound examples of the MQ that were uploaded at the "Players" section.
As far as I can tell from the clip on the main page (there seems to be no other examples around here?) the Stockholm goes for more into the direction I want my cleans to sound like, but its really hard to tell based on a 10 sec. sound clip.

[Transcend]

I shall hopefully be posting a clip of my new song up later today to show this off!

I would really appreciate that.
I have to say I'm not entirely convinced by the sound examples of the MQ that were uploaded at the "Players" section.
As far as I can tell from the clip on the main page (there seems to be no other examples around here?) the Stockholm goes for more into the direction I want my cleans to sound like, but its really hard to tell based on a 10 sec. sound clip.

If you search my posts i think i have uploaded a few clean clips of the MQ

[Grim]

painkiller

+1,000,000

Miracle Man or C-Pig will be very dark in Mahogany. Painkiller rips in Mahogany.

[jroc]

Interestingly enough - just for the heck of it I contacted BKP support and they recommended me either a cold sweat set or a c-bomb set. hmm
The C-bomb would  be thicker while the CS set would have more mids.

painkiller