washburn wt4 pickups change

brazmonki

Hi all

I have not posted here in quite some time, but I would like your input regarding pickups for my Washburn WT4. The pickup configuration is a humbucker in the bridge followed by a single in the middle and a single in the neck. http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae340/brazmonki1984/P120609_2237.jpg

Here are some more specs I got from a dude at Washburn in America via email:
maple body,
bolt-on rock maple neck,
22-fret rosewood fingerboard with dot inlay,
black headstock,
Floyd Rose licensed 600T tremolo with locking nut,
one Washburn Eliminator humbucker and two single coil pickups,
two knobs,
three mini-switches

My question is as follows; what pickups would you choose if you had to replace all 3? I'm thinking of revamping the entire setup. I'd like to use the guitar to play rock, metal and maybe some blues. But also, a bit of everything seeing that this is my only guitar with a Floyd Rose.

Thanks in advance for your comments! Here's a bad quality photo of the guitar:
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae340/brazmonki1984/P120609_2235.jpg

Gearhead

As far as I am concerned, one cannot play blues with a Floyd. Too difficult to bend double stops and in general not enough sustain. For metal, my vote would be for a 89/S/SA EMG set, but again it won't be covering all the bases. You would be able to do Gilmour, for example. The passive alternative would need to be heavily wound or overwound because of all the Maple, no use putting vintage pups in there.

brazmonki

Gearhead wrote: As far as I am concerned, one cannot play blues with a Floyd. Too difficult to bend double stops and in general not enough sustain. For metal, my vote would be for a 89/S/SA EMG set, but again it won't be covering all the bases. You would be able to do Gilmour, for example. The passive alternative would need to be heavily wound or overwound because of all the Maple, no use putting vintage pups in there.

Thanks! You are probably right regarding the blues thing so let's just say rock. :-[