In need of Pickup Advice...

[JKSteger]

I'm looking for a neck an bridge pickup to replace the cheap ones that came with my Agile AL-2000.

I play thru a Ashdown FA60 head (4-12ax7's and 2-EL34's). Two channel amp clean and dirty.

I cover alot of ground and I'm looking for a good set of pickups that let my cleans play clean and my dirty sound dirty! I'm looking at DiMarzio's at the moment because I bought a set from the local shop and they said that if I didn't like them I could bring them back and swap them out for another set of DiMarzio's.

I got a couple of Tone Zone's in there now. Pretty good pickup but it's really overdriving on the clean channel ever so slightly. They also sound thin without alot of gain or distortion and a little "bass-ey". I was thinking that I really wanted a "hot" pickup but now that I've had these I'm thinking something like the Air Classic or PAF 36th Anniversery.

As strang as it sounds, my friend said to try the Super Distortion! He said it cleans up really well with the volume knob and is not a "bass-ey" in a Mahogany body guitar such as mine.

If you had to put a set of DiMarzio's in your solid body, Mahagany w/maple cap and maple neck with rosewood finger board...and had to play everything from chords in church setting to Kiss and Van Halen on Saturday, which ones would you get?

thanks for any and all input.

Jeremy

 

[PINKBITS]

How much money do you want to spend?

And yes, you don't need a hot pickup to get great hard rock and metal tones.

Unless of course your into that full on dropped tuning shite.

If you are going to go with Dimarzio, I do like the Super D. It is a really good pickup.

 

[captcoolaid]

The Super Distortion is a great pickup. Probably one of my all time favorites. The invader was also a great pickup. I have had both in many different guitars. You can get them pretty cheap now a days so if you don't like them in your agile then save them for something else. Let me know what you think of the agile, as I am thinking of getting one. I want to do something at around 17k for the bridge and maybe go hot at like 9.6 or even 10 at the neck with maybe a pickup flip, or maybe some sort of custom wind to give it more of a acoustic tone.

 

[MrRhoads]

Choosing between the Super Distortion and the PAF 36th anniversary i´go with the PAF 36th without a doubt...
I´ve got Burstbucker Pro´s in my Les Paul and they read neck: 7,35kOhm brgide: 7,96kOhm and they cover all styles
I also did put in a RS Guitarworks Vintage Kit and it´s just turned the guitar in to a dream soundwise....
Like Pinkbits said, you don´t need a super hot brigde pickup, you can leave it to the amp for the distortion

Good luck and let us know what you´re choice is

 

[EEF13]

Super Distortion is a great pickup. You can also try the Dimarzio FRED.

 

[JKSteger]

Just to let everyone know, I was given an Original PRS Dragon Treble, NOT the Dragon II but an original Dragon Treble pickup. I'm in love with this pickup so I took the DiMarzio back for credit and got a pedal I had been wanting for a while.

And Captcoolaid, I really like my Agile. I've had it for a couple of years. It's solid and is a little heavy but I like it. If I were to do it over again I would buy the Agile AL-3000 instead of the AL-2000.

J:

 

[dennistruckdriver]

Super Distortion is a great pickup. You can also try the Dimarzio FRED.

Of course....

 

[dynabite]