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pickup combination advice

  • 02-10-2008 7:58pm
    #1
    pug_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 636 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks, I have an Ibanez SA series guitar with SSH pickup combination. The default pups are pretty good sounding but nothing to write home about, and the bridge humbucker just doesn't play well with the middle singlecoil completely overpowering it regardless of height.

    I'd like to install something decent but I really haven't got a bounce about pickups and what combinations work well together.

    Style wise I don't have a particular style and I tend too play anything so ideally I'd like a combination that would give a decent range of sounds. I'm not sure what other info is required for advice if any so I'll leave it there and leave people ask questions if I've left anything out :)


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  • #2
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    if u want to keep the single coils instead of humbucker size singles i recomened a dimarzio blue or red velvet pickups and in the bridge a steves special, tone zone, Fred, Mo joe or hmm maybe even an air norton

    theres nice vintage ibanez's too, but im always under the impression to keep ibanez with dimarzios, damn marketing i guess


  • #3
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    Ibanez + Dimarzio = win at rock music.

    Check out some of the Dimarzios that Satriani (Satch) uses in his signature guitars. Can't go wrong with them suckers.


  • #4
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    ive the same combo joe uses in my Rg, they're quite nice, its a FRED, the blue and red velvet shud complement it and each other nicely, or even a pair of either


  • #5
    pug_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 636 ✭✭✭pug_


    Cheers for the replies. Been looking into those, and as usual I've a few more questions :)

    The blue velvet looks to have been decommissioned and replaced with the True Velvet, the blue velvet is still widely available but would I be better off with the newer model?

    Looking at the humbuckers recommended the first two look to be high output models, I'm just a bit worried that they might overpower the middle singlecoil if I switched between them. I hope it's an unfounded fear, cos the Steve's special looks very interesting. I'm also liking the FRED or the Mo Joe, though I'm leaning more towards the FRED at the moment purely because it seems to have a lower output to the Mo Joe.

    Here's what I'm thinking at the moment anyway...

    Neck: True velvet or Blue velvet
    Middle: Red velvet or true/blue Velvet
    Bridge: Steve's Special or FRED


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