Quinus wrote
Do u think i must try the tone zone instead of the mo joe??
You mean replace your bridge pickup instead of the neck? Depends on which is more important pickup to you and how much the Invader annoys you. For most of us I think the bridge pickup is higher priority on a two humbucker guitar, but if the Invader is serviceable, it may do for now and you can change the neck first. At least the Invader is sellable, so when you change the bridge pickup, you should be able to partially finance the new one off the sale of the old.
I just don`t want that metallic, high treble sound i`m getting with the invader
Compared to a pickup with an alnico magnet, ceramics always have a bit of an edge to them - it works well to put back some of the high end lost by winding the pickup hot though, and sometimes that edginess helps you cut through dense metal mixes.
Read some review of the tone zone and most ppl say it`s a harsh sounding pickup aswell.
Not by my reckoning and I'm fussy about such things. It's an alnico 5 magnet and is pretty warm sounding (Too warm in an LP for many people). It's an excellent pickup in a bright guitar (if you want to tame the highs of a Floyd) or for a thick, heavy tone. I use Air Zone (same thing, but with the magnet spaced further from the poles to lower the magnetic gauss and output), and I'm happy - but that's in a bright guitar.
The epi is made of mohagony and alder wood
An LP? I think you'll find it's mahogany with a maple cap and a rosewood fingerboard. Unless it's one of the other, less common models.
What sounds are you chasing now? More classic rock? I've got to be honest - medium to lower powered pickups make more sense in most cases these days. Modern amps and distortion pedals have more than enough gain to make up for a lower powered pickup and the pickups themselves have more dynamic and tonal range.
Quinus wrote
And was wondering, what k pots does the custom have
Humbucker guitars will almost always have 500K pots, which are fine in most cases. If you find your pickups are too bright or too dark, you can hand select a different value pot (a pot marked 500K can actually fall anywhere in the range between 400K and 600K) to compensate. Pot quality may not be the best in an Epi, but as long as they are in range, they do the job until they start wearing out in a year or two - then you pop in some CTS brand and forget about them for the next 10 years or so.
