kp247 wrote:
I've just recently opened an expensive JEM guitar and would you believe that the pickups were just completely plastic and just so incredibly cheap! Plastic base plates and everything. Toneriders are way better than these things. I know, I've got quite a few.
That was not likely to be an expensive Jem, they do a line of Jems and the expensive ones have Dimarzio pickups in them.
R0gueHunt3R wrote:
For example, I use this guitar in church for Planetshakers and the like (The church uses a Marshal amp) and then go home and play Lamb of God or BfMV (a seeming contradiction, I know) on my own setup. Which of the two pickups would be better for this, as the Marshal is quite hot while my own setup is less so?
Realistically you'll never find a pickup that handles this perfectly, you'll get ball park but it'll always tend to sit in one direction more than the other.
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
From your distortion I gathered you were after as heavy as possible, that's why I recommended the Generator. Personally, I also prefer to go for a more standard to low output pickup (like the Rocksong, Alnico IV or Alnico II) and let the distortion/amp do the heavy lifting - you get a more articulate tone that way. But each to their own...
This!
After you've played really heavy music for about 5 years you'll probably realise that this is the truth, at this point in time dynamic range will become the most important factor in your pick up purchases. This is entirely why now more so than ever
R0gueHunt3R wrote:
The only point of reference I have are my active EMGs, which sound pretty good..
I can't agree with that ?
