Hi,
First off, sorry for yet another question about pickup suitability! Having had a variety of guitars over the years, most of them too expensive to leave lying around the house (due to two young kids) - as such they've sheltered in their hard cases and had limited use, a bad thing for any guitar in my opinion. So I've just picked up a cheap Chinese made Ibanez ART200, with some setting up it should be a fairly nice guitar for the money, and best of all if my 3 year old knocks it off a guitar stand I wont be too upset! However its not without its faults, the tuners are cr@p, but easily replaceable, and the pickups are fairly thin sounding, despite the mahogany body it does tend to sound somewhat lacking in mids and lower end. I tend to play either clean or 80's metal (Iron Maiden/Def Leppard), plus some Vai and Megadeth when in the mood for it. Previous pickup experience has been 90% Dimarzios, although the only Dimarzio pickups I currently own are the Liquifire & Crunchlab - nice mids, not too thin or shrill.
I'm after a pair of chrome covered pickups, with plenty of mids, not too shrill like the Dimarzio Evos, or muddy as the Breeds - and need to be pretty hot.
Would the Painkiller or Aftermath be suitable? Also, what’s the difference in colour between the Nickel or Chrome covers - is there any? Near impossible to tell from the pictures.
Many thanks,
Chris
