Help?

[yahilltrade]

alright so i just picked up a nice SG supreme from my friend...black to white fade...preatty slick...but its got no pickups in it....now i have a pair of dizmario super dis. buckers but i want something with real tone...i was thinking should i put a emg/neck dizmario/bridge?

should i go with a full set of emgs?

help guys?

my old set up was a set of Seymor Duncan buckers and it served me well, but now i have my SG and i wanna shred it with nice tone to my dis.

thanks guys,

bax

Edited March 1, 2006 by yahilltrade

[Nitefly SA]

i'd go with DiMarzios

[JohnA]

DiMarzio Super Distortion/Super 2 in the neck would be a good combo. Mixing active and passive pickups is not usually a good idea, you get a drastic change in volume.

Edited March 1, 2006 by JohnA

[yahilltrade]

yeah i wasnt really considering the active/non it was just a thought....im probley just going to end up using a full set of gibson 57's

any idea's on that one?

bax

[mikhailgtrski]

Just me, but I prefer a PAF-type humbucker... IMO you can generally achieve a better tone with a medium-output p/u, and getting your overdrive from the amp vs. slamming the front end of the amp with a hot pickup.

But it depends on how good your amp is and what sound you're going for. If you like lots of preamp distortion (bees in a tin can ) then I don't think your pickup choice is all that critical, something hot to drive the preamp harder is all you need.

The best tone to my ears is a PAF into a non-gainy tube preamp, pushing a tube power amp into glorious power tube distortion.

This might help you choose if you go for the PAFs: PAF pickup review

Mike