Help me choose some BKPs

[Kinderman_S150]

Hi there,

I'm looking for a bit of advice to help me decide on some new Pickups.

I'm currently playing the Billy Corgan sig hardtail strat. Alder body / Maple Neck

The Strat came loaded with a set of these http://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/pre-wired/billy-corgan-strat-replacement-pickguard

The Dimarzio pickups are modern voiced, dark sounding, high output S sized humbuckers which when I want to slug out some high gain stuff they sound good but I find myself playing less and less of that style of music, as this is my only guitar and will be for then next few years I'm looking for a set of pickups a bit more versatile. The plan is one day to put together a Warmoth for the Dimarzio's.

The main gripe with the Corgan's is a lackluster clean/crunch sound, I'm looking for a set that can get pretty close to the following kinds of tones

Jimi style tones
A fat lead tone with singing sustain
A sweet clean for Alternative style music
Funky  chili pepper style tones
A set that when pushed can also give me some strong, fat hard rock/high gain sounds

Is this a tall order? any help would be much appreciated  :P

[itamar101]

Youll get those tones easily with a mothers milk or Irish tour set.
I think that you best option would be to get a Mothers Milk neck and middle and an Irish Tour Bridge with a baseplate.

[Telerocker]

Irish Tour-set with a baseplate for the bridge. Just by rolling the volumeknob a tad back, you get in Mother's Milk-terrority. Nice for Frusciante-stuff. I have the MM'stoo, but the IT's do fat leads better.

[WhiteRam]

Irish Tour-set with a baseplate for the bridge.

+1. IT set, baseplate for the bridge pickup. Telerocker is spot on IMO.