Cant decide on strat pickups!

[_tom_]

I finally got most of my strat together today, so I got to have a quick play. I have a Trilogy suite in the neck, and a "BG pickups" prototype singlecoil-size p90 in the middle (someone on HC sent me that one for free to test it out!), no bridge pickup yet. The guitar has an ash body with maple neck, and I've wired up the tones so that the top one controls the tone for neck + middle, and the bottom one controls the tone for bridge.

I dont think I like the neck Trilogy in this guitar - its a bit too dark and thick for my liking, I want something with more "chime" and glassiness (sorry for the stupid terms, I just cant think of any other way to describe it). In terms of power, I was hoping to get the same kinda push as with my Mule'd LP, maybe a bit less. The kinda strat tones I really like are Gilmore (shine on you crazy diamond etc), Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, SRV etc, you get the idea.

Tim said a Trilogy in the bridge would be good, so I think I'll get that, I just need to decide on a neck pickup really (maybe middle as well, not sure if I like this BG yet). He also recommended the Slowhand - "Slow Hand coils are also nice and fat and can push and amp hard."

Any advice would be great!

[Antag]

The only BKP neck & middle singles I've got are Sultans' & Irish Tours (also have a Trilogy neck)

Of those, Irish Tours are closest to what you describe.  I believe that they're only a shade less powerful than Slowhands.

[Kilby]

There was a discussion a few months ago where Gilmour and Hendrix tones had Mothers milks mentioned (but that was provisional on fingerboard and body woods).

Later floyd stuff with more mids, say division bell or momentary lapse albums, the slowhand may give the extra thickenss from his excursion into EMG & midboost territory.

For Gallagher perhaps the Irish tour would be right ball park (no scarcasm intended BTW)



Rob...

[Sailor Charon]

Have you tried lowering the neck pickup? I found that mine - also Trilogy Suite - was a bit... lacking in oomph? so I raised it, it had been very low only a mm or so above the scratch plate. Made a big difference...

[_tom_]

Yeah, its about 2mm above the scratchplate, pretty low I guess..

btw, do you have a bridge Trilogy by any chance? If so, how does it sound for your typical overdriven rock stuff?

[Sailor Charon]

Yeah, its about 2mm above the scratchplate, pretty low I guess..

btw, do you have a bridge Trilogy by any chance? If so, how does it sound for your typical overdriven rock stuff?

Erm... This is embarassing. Yes, I have a bridge Trilogy. The problem is that I can't actually say, because I have to turn my amp down (and I'm only allowed to go up to 2 or 3 with my SG (Mississippi Queens)) when I play my Strat...  It's got good top end response, that I can say. [And, what is worse, my amp's away being fixed at the moment...]