EMG SA-X , Dimarzio Cruiser Bridge , Bill Lawrence L250

[mightyboy88]

Hi,

I am considering acquiring one of two of these pups to replace the stock pickups in my MIJ Strat. I believe the stock pickups are texas specials which sound great but they do experience sixty cycles hum, which i would gladly do without LOL. And i am interested in putting a single coil sized humbucker in the bridge position to play thicker sounding riffs

Please share your experiences if u have used these pickups before. Thanks

 

[J.custom]

What kind of tone are you going after? I recently ordered a Dimarzio Cruiser Bridge to place in the neck position of my old guitar. That's what Andy Timmon's and Marco Sfogli does to get more bite out of their sound and match the output of the bridge pickup.

As for a humbucking single coil in the bridge, I highly recommend the Dimarzio Injector. Might order one plus the conversion ring (from humbucker to S-coil!)

 

[mightyboy88]

I am looking to get a nice fat but yet clear lead tone via the neck position. I like how single coil pickups sound in the neck position. I want nice sparkly clean sounds form the neck too.

For e bridge position i hope to have a pickup that can sound heavy for big and chunky rhythm playing, and i want pinch harmonics haha.

The injector sounds like a great pickup. Thanks for the recommendation bro

 

[J.custom]

You could try out the Dimarzio Chopper for your neck position too. Bumblefoot uses it.

 

[bf0502tr]

if it is pinch harmonics u want, just work on the technique...or boost the gain on ur amp. i get pinch harmonics on my area58 neck, which is actually a very low output single coil and in the neck position. if u want big and chunky maybe the super distortion s may help. but then again it depends largely on how much gain u put ur signal through. the output of the pickup can only help so much. just put any rails in ur bridge and let the amp/pedal do the rest.

as for the neck if u want sparkly cleans with fat lead tones...not sure if its even possible unless u dun mind using position 2 or 4, whichever way u start counting, to get ur sparkle. but if u dun mind, i think the pro track might help. or at least thats from reading alone at dimarzio's webby. their descriptions are quite vivid as compared to other pickup manufacturers lol

 

[J.custom]

Yeah pinch harmonics are mainly from technique, even clean also can get. But i guess what he's trying to say that he's looking for pups that makes it slightly easier to produce pinch harmonics.

Sparkly cleans with fat lead tones. Sounds like a P90 to me. Getting quite facinated by it's tone recently.

 

[bf0502tr]

ah yes the p90s how could i ever forget that!! think SD quarter pounder might do the trick. was lucky to have a guy lend me his tele with a newly installed quarterpounder to test its sound. it sounds very thick yet retains that single coil sound very distinctively. similar to p90s i think. oh but it has some hum haha oh well trade-offs eh. if not try virtual solo from dimarzio but heard its too thick haha

 

[J.custom]

Check out the Duncan P-rails or the Dimarzio P90s, if you want something with higher output. For more vintage tones i highly recommend the Lollar P90

 

[bf0502tr]

i think his strat needs a wood work to fit a p90??

 

[J.custom]

Oh yeah. Depends on the routing. If i'm not wrong MIJ strats have swimming pool route, so only need to route the pickguard. Anyways a bit off topic, he wanted humbucking single coils hHhahahha

 

[lemonade93]

JB Jr. Mou?

 

[mightyboy88]

Thanks for the sharing guys !

actually im more inclined towards getting a good pickup with a unique tone and then trying to get good tone with it by shaping my playing stuff around it.

For now im pretty interested in trying out a single coil pickup in the neck with high gain and hence im thinking about emg sa-x, something which claims to rid the 60 cycle hum and even has less noise than a passive hum.

Anyone has tried it, or tried the emg sa, or emg steve lukather uses?