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Author Topic: Fan of Holydiver looking for advice on new guitar Ibanez QX54qm  (Read 61 times)

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Fan of Holydiver looking for advice on new guitar Ibanez QX54qm
« on: December 21, 2025, 06:50:47 PM »
Hi ! I've had the Holydiver in my Music Man Silhouette for years. I just bought a new guitar (Ibanez QX54qm) and am looking into changing the stock pickups.
What I'm worried about is that this guitar in particular, played acoustically, has a lot of low mids (like a bump in the 250 to 300hz).

So I'm looking into first a replacement bridge pickup that wouldn't be as pronounced in that frequency range as the Holydiver but would have a similar character, and next some single pickups to pair it with, since the guitar is in HSS.

I'm not really well versed in single coil pîckups, but I intend to play fusion and metal in standard tuning on this guitar. Not really looking for a vintage sound.

Note that the answer to my question might very well be that yeah, the Holydiver could still be the right pickup for me.
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