Need a little help choosing a new pickup

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Offline bdqwerty

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Need a little help choosing a new pickup
« on: September 10, 2016, 02:35:50 PM »
I wanted to ask your opinion on what a good set pickups would be for my guitar and style. I play an Ibanez ar220 and my style is blues, progressive, and stoner rock. I currently don't own an amp due to harsh financial times, but I am playing through guitar rig 5 on my computer. I know it's not ideal, but it works. My problem with the pickups is that they sound great for cleans and jazzy bluesy sruff, but they don't have a good amount of clarity, definition or drive once I kick the gain on. I want something that keeps the cleanliness but isn't afraid to get a little raunchy and retain the definition heard in the cleans.

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Re: Need a little help choosing a new pickup
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2016, 03:24:54 PM »
I think the 36th Anniversary PAFs would work great. They do pretty much everything.
Another option could be a Humbucker From Hell or Bluesbucker in the neck and a PAF Master in the bridge. Options are endless.

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Re: Need a little help choosing a new pickup
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2016, 03:27:29 PM »
so, basically no more than a medium output bucker in the bridge, at least for dimarzio pickups?

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Re: Need a little help choosing a new pickup
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2016, 07:30:31 AM »
Well, if you do a lot of clean stuff then I wouldnt go for a high output pickup, I'd stay in the low/medium output range. If cleans are not super important then you have a whole lot more to choose from, but the 36's are great "do it all" pickups.

You say blues, progressive (rock? Metal?) and stoner. I wouldn't choose the same pickup for blues and stoner if I had a choice. For stoner I'm thinking "wall of sound", a very full, fat, distorted tone. I'd go something like a Tone Zone or Super Distortion. For blues, probably the 36's or Air Classics.

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Re: Need a little help choosing a new pickup
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2016, 09:51:03 PM »
Good advice my friend

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Re: Need a little help choosing a new pickup
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2016, 06:38:37 PM »
Just curious, how versatile is the Titan pickup set?

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Re: Need a little help choosing a new pickup
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2016, 03:01:54 AM »
Not sure. Not many people seem to have tried them yet.