So about a year ago, i got a nice custom semi-hollow built by Matt Artinger. I love to death, but I'm thinking of playing around with new pickups. Problem is, I know next to nothing about pickups, but I know what sound i want.
So the guitar is chambered semi hollow mahogony, ebony fingerboard, two low/medium output seymour duncan humbuckers (with coil taps).
Artinger put the lowish output humbuckers in because he thinks that they sound better than higer output pickups
A big part of my sound is this Jimmy Herring thick, smooth lead. (2 cranked tubescreamers froma 69' Super Reverb). I usuall get that with the bridge humbucker, but I wish it were a little hotter. My neckpickup sounds a lot louder, probably because it pickups up that big fat jazz neck sound. When I coil-tap that, I'd like it to be closer to a strat sound, i don't care as much to keep the fat jazz sound.
So here's the dilema. When both humbuckers are tapepd, I won't them both to be be able to have this strat-ish jangly sound. But, I want the humbucker in the bridge to be higher output. Is this possible? Can the bridge pickup be both think and heavy as a humbucker, and jangly and strat-ish like a single coil when its tapped?
Any suggestions on pickups to look into?
Other guitar players sounds i like:
Jimmy Herring (thick lead)
Jimmy Herring (clean)
Trey Anastasio (similar sort of thing)
Jeff Buckley (tele jangle - open chords)
(Steely Dan - kid Charlemenge and other recordings - the bluesy strat-tube amp sound)
Thanks
