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The Pickup Place / Re: Pickups for dark guitar

« on: June 04, 2024, 10:52:04 PM »

I had in the drawer JB/Jazz , so I tried them. Never liked JB by the way.
Of course , I have in mind also from SD Custom 5, and Parallel Axis PATB-3, just looking on the used marked to find a deal.
I have been always curious about Dimarzios, that's why would like to try some.

I will check the recommended, Thanks

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The Pickup Place / Pickups for dark guitar

« on: June 03, 2024, 10:57:19 PM »

Greetings.
I would like to ask for some pickup recommendations.
The guitar I try to save, is Ibanez Darkstome, a massive guitar, sapele body and neck, on the heavy side like LP. The problem I have with this one, is it sounds dark to my years, somehow mid heavy. I have tried different combinations form SD, Bare Knuckle, House of Tone pickups, but this quest to buy and try starts to get somehow expensive at the end.

Would you recommend some all-round pickup set or combination? Good cleans and overdrives, some distortion tones. Standard tuning.
This probably will be the last try before go into actives, so hopefully some ideas will come.

Thanks in advance 

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The Pickup Place / Need help for first DiMarzio pickups

« on: November 08, 2019, 11:30:55 PM »

Greetings.
I would like to ask about some help/advice which pickups would be suitable.
Guitar is Mayones, 6 strings, mahogany body, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard, bolt-on construction.
It came wish SD JB and Jazz humbuckers and later replaced with SD Nazgul and Sentient.
Obviously I am not satisfied with the tone from Nazgul. It is probably very good for 7 strings or lower tuning, but I play in E standard. Ok, it may have bottom and low mids, but for my taste clarity is missing, and some kind sterile tone. For example, I got Gibson Custom from a friend about 10 days ago (unfortunately he does not remember the bridge humbucker, but is some Gibson model, Alnico) and there I can talk about clarity, but lack of balls. Anyway.
I try to play metal, my own stuff, gear is audio interface, Cubase, Neumann KH120. And Mayones is not in use because I cannot take a good for me sound from it.
Could you recommend some DiMarzio options I can check? Need is power chords, sometimes plam muted, something like Grave Digger and Savatage power guitar chord sound (first that came in mind).
The problem is that need to buy, to install and try, and if it is not the right one, again the whole procedure.

Thank you in advance
Angel