I have a custom guitar, short Gibson scale, 2 pickups, poplar body, maple neck, ebony fretboard.
As pickups I tried many. In the past I liked the Duncan Custom in the bridge, and the DMZ Air Classic in the neck, and I used them for some time.
But after some years, I started liking more a kind of single coil sound.
So I started trying many pickups.
I play classic rock, but I like a wide range of style, including clean and effected pop tones, and some raw hard rock (or modern metal?) with a lot of harmonics.
And here there's the first problem, maybe it's the ebony fretboard killing the overtones, but my guitar has little harmonics. In the past my Kramer with EMGs and rosewood fretboard had a lot of easy harmonics, but honestly I did not like the active EMG for rock distortion tones.
First I tried the DMZ Cruiser in the bridge. It was too trebly and thin for me. I put it in the neck and it was quite good!
Then I tried the HS4 (former YJM pup) in the bridge. Not bad, but a little weak, so I moved it in the neck, and it's good.
Now I have it with the DMZ Virtual Solo in the bridge. The couple is good for the typical quack tone in the middle position (Virtual Solo + YJM in parallel - only the hot pickup in the top).
The Virtual Solo is nice, with warm tone and single coil sound. BUT I still have little overtones, unless I use very high gain pedals (the Grunge is great for that, but the tone do not cut well the mix).
So now I'd like to try a double blade pickup in the bridge, and putting again the Cruiser (bridge version) in the neck, because it's hotter than HS4 and maybe gets a better balance.
Would you suggest the Fast Track 1 or 2? I see that maybe the "2" is more rock oriented, but I'm afraid that I need more trebles (so here it is the FS1) and I'm afraid that the FS2 is not that nice for clean tones. Even if I'm afraid that as the Cruiser, the FS1 can be a little thin in my guitar. And what about the "quack" tone in the middle position if I put one blade of each pickup in parallel?
Thanks for your comments!
As pickups I tried many. In the past I liked the Duncan Custom in the bridge, and the DMZ Air Classic in the neck, and I used them for some time.
But after some years, I started liking more a kind of single coil sound.
So I started trying many pickups.
I play classic rock, but I like a wide range of style, including clean and effected pop tones, and some raw hard rock (or modern metal?) with a lot of harmonics.
And here there's the first problem, maybe it's the ebony fretboard killing the overtones, but my guitar has little harmonics. In the past my Kramer with EMGs and rosewood fretboard had a lot of easy harmonics, but honestly I did not like the active EMG for rock distortion tones.
First I tried the DMZ Cruiser in the bridge. It was too trebly and thin for me. I put it in the neck and it was quite good!
Then I tried the HS4 (former YJM pup) in the bridge. Not bad, but a little weak, so I moved it in the neck, and it's good.
Now I have it with the DMZ Virtual Solo in the bridge. The couple is good for the typical quack tone in the middle position (Virtual Solo + YJM in parallel - only the hot pickup in the top).
The Virtual Solo is nice, with warm tone and single coil sound. BUT I still have little overtones, unless I use very high gain pedals (the Grunge is great for that, but the tone do not cut well the mix).
So now I'd like to try a double blade pickup in the bridge, and putting again the Cruiser (bridge version) in the neck, because it's hotter than HS4 and maybe gets a better balance.
Would you suggest the Fast Track 1 or 2? I see that maybe the "2" is more rock oriented, but I'm afraid that I need more trebles (so here it is the FS1) and I'm afraid that the FS2 is not that nice for clean tones. Even if I'm afraid that as the Cruiser, the FS1 can be a little thin in my guitar. And what about the "quack" tone in the middle position if I put one blade of each pickup in parallel?
Thanks for your comments!
