bluesforstevie
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I'm in the market for some new pickups, and these are definitely on the shortlist. Which ones would Jon or any of you other guys suggest? The guitar is an '02 R8 Historic Makeover. I think it's fairly balanced sounding, perhaps on the dark side, but quite percussive. I am going to upgrade to Pigtail hardware and stainless steel bridge posts to tighten up the bottom a little. I've currently got WCR Fillmore neck and Goooooodwood bridge. I really like the bridge pickup, it's just a tiny bit too hot and compressed, but the neck pickup is too middy sounding and too hot.
The "Peter Green" set looks interesting as I think I want a reasonably hot bridge pickup (8.5k region), but I don't want it to be too bright. I also think I want the neck PU more in the 7.5k or less region, unless I can be conviced otherwise? Does that work well with flipped magnet/out of phase middle tones?
Well, I have a guitar that sounded too "thick" or dark in the neck with most A2 pickups...so, I put an A5 in my Burstbucker 2 which is about 7.8K and it really, really helped...gave it more definition and cut...and it has the Peter Green flip...along with my Burstbucker 3 with A2 mag in the bridge...which is about 8.5K or so...and I really like the combo. Here's a sample video for you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6qkF_6LNPA