Your mis-matched pickup combos and what you love/hate about them.

[llJasonll]

What the topic says.

Seriously, I'd like to hear what pickup combos that the other users on the forum have in their axes; and what they like/love/dislike/hate about them.  I am particularly interested in hearing about an Aftermath bridge with a Painkller neck or a Ceramic Aftermath neck (i know it isn't "mis-matched," but it is different).

I still want to hear everyother pickup combo out there.  I figured we could all have some fun and maybe I can think of a cool combo that I never realized would work (I have a new axe being made for me, and I am trying to figure out which pickups to go with)

Cheers!  :drink:

[ElectricTurkey4369]

In my Les Paul I have a Holydiver in the bridge and a Mule in the neck. What i dislike about the combo is that the Mule doesn't seem to pair well with the HD unless i turn down the Mules Volume pot. I'm not a gigging musician so, it doesn't matter much.
The Mule doesn't sound all that great for high-gain lead. The Mule sounds really good split. I really don't like the sound of it in full humbucker mode on the clean channel.
I don't use the neck for leads much anyway. The Holydiver is where it's at for leads.
This thing is FAT and articulate. Really smooth and dynamic. I like how it sounds better when you lower the height a little. I totally rediscovered the pickup about 2 months ago when I lowered it. Much more clarity.

[Transcend]

I have a Miracle Man & Mississippi Queen combo.

I love absolutely everything about the miracle man

and i used to love everything about the MQ too but now im finding that the cleans could be a tad more compressed. Other than that it is ideal.

I currently have an aftermath bridge and a prototype aftermath neck on the way which is the ceramic i believe.
I shall let you know how it goes

[BigB]

Mule neck / ABomb bridge here in a SG. Had to fiddle a bit with pups / screws height to find a good balance but I'm pretty pleased with the result. The Mule neck is incredible for clean and bluesy crunch tones, the ABomb bridge covers the classic rock to more modern overdrive tones, and there's a very wide range of interesting tones to be found in the middle position playing with tone and volume pots.

I also had a Slowhand neck+mid / baseplated Trilogy bridge on a Strat-like Vox Standard 25, but while I liked both, I found they didn't match that well.

[Telerocker]

- Crawler/IT's in a swampash HSS-strat (MXG, customaxe made by Patrick Eggle. Big fat, creamy distortion tones, IT's cover everything from clean Frusciante to SRV. Neckpu is stellar with loads of distortion. Fenderish quacky in between sounds. Great allround set when you have to cover a lot of styles.
- VHII/MM's in an American Series HSS-strat (ash, rosewood). VHII: great dynamics, open and articulate, bright but still rounded in the topend. Not thin. Balanced pu that cleans up great, nearly singlecoiltones then. Handles loads of gain well, very nice crunch tones and wicked leadtones, especially when you dig in. Touchsensitive. MM's: pristine early early sixties vintagetones. Clear, bright, less bass then IT's. neckpu is really good, a lot of bite and snap.
- BG50's (old set) in an American Series Tele. What can I say, classic teletones, pu's handle ampdrive very well, also pedals. Very balanced set. Neckpu has a stratty touch. You can play everything on this one, severe metal excluded. But jazz, funk, blues, classic rock, hard rock, no problem. Articulate pu's.

[blue]

7 string Miracle man at the bridge, 7 string Mule at the neck.  sounds great :)

[Roobubba]

Aftermath in the bridge.

How's that for mismatched! :D

[llJasonll]

Right on guys!  I want more opinions!

[darkbluemurder]

Holydiver bridge/Cold Sweat neck in a PRS Custom with the 5-way rotary selector. Awesome tone with the individual pickups and nice clean tones with the split positions.

Nailbomb bridge/VHII neck in a PRS Single Cut, stock wiring. Awesome as well. 

Cheers Stephan

[lamp]

Mansons MBK2 BKP set (essentially a slightly overwound Nailbomb bridge and MQ neck) in a mahogany/rosewood LP sounds awesome. Aggressive but articulate bridge pup and a nice warm P90 neck - lovely.
Also have a sinner bridge with a mother's milk neck in a Fender Jaguar - maybe a little unusual but Tim said the combo could work - he wasn't wrong.

[ronjhoser]

That Holy Diver bridge / Cold Sweat neck combo sounds very appealing.  Any ideas on how that would be different from a straight Holy Diver set?

[ericsabbath]

holy diver/cold sweat and the riff raff/the mule were the best combos I had


this russian guy did a great rock/metal demo of the riff raff/mule set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVHiPa0xm8

:D

[llJasonll]

So I just ordered a Rebel Yell Bridge, and a VHII neck; for a pretty bright sounding guitar.  I'm really excited and I can't wait to hear how it sounds!!

I am taking slow but steady steps at a more versatile/vintage sounding pickups; as opposed to all of the other Metal Machines that I own.  8)

Edit:  The Axe mentioned previously in this thread is the axe that these pups are going into

[fltlll]

So I just ordered a Rebel Yell Bridge, and a VHII neck; for a pretty bright sounding guitar.  I'm really excited and I can't wait to hear how it sounds!!

I am taking slow but steady steps at a more versatile/vintage sounding pickups; as opposed to all of the other Metal Machines that I own.  8)

Sounds like a cool combo! I'm also trying to go more the "vintage" route... I want to try a set of Mules / Riff Raffs / Rebel Yells /VHII and see which one I like the most for each position. Too many combinations!

[Thrull]

I have a warpig and a vintage dimarzio PAF in my 1980 Eagle , they sound really great together suprisingly