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pickups for strat with strong bass

Bruno

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Hello,
I have a solid body guitar (strat type rear rout), mahogany/flame maple - 16mm thick - (note: not carved!), bird's eye neck and ebony gabon fingerboard. 3sc, sperzel t/l and hipshot hardtail bridge.
This guitar has many high and midrange but has a very, very, very lack of bass.
At the time I remedied  :glasses10: using EMG pups (3sa).
Now, I would like other pups, relegating the EMG for another project.

What pups do you recommend that has:
- deep bass;
- medium/high vol;
- sc appearance;
- between duncan, dimarzio, Lollar, Suhr, riogrande and Van Zandt.

I'm thinking something like dimarzio injector (alnico2, bridge/neck with area 61 middle) or seymour duncan ssl-4 or ...

Thanks
 
The Dimarzio Injector should provide what you're looking for.

-OR-

A Dimarzio DP-181 in the bridge-position, and two DP-186s for the neck and middle. Of course those are dual rail pickups, so they won't look like stock single-coils, but you will get that bass that you are craving.
 
Street Avenger said:
The Dimarzio Injector should provide what you're looking for.

:icon_thumright:

I'm thinking about an insane wiring with 2 injector and 5way switch: pu-neck, pu-neck split, pu-neck + pu-bridge, pu-bridge split, pu-bridge
(but...I know, it's impossibile with a normal 5way switch :P)
 
The Carvin twin rail pickups also have a solid bass signal, and they're cheap!  http://www.carvinguitars.com/products/group.php?cid=80

I think the upgrade from the standard single coils is about USD$15 for a preassembled pickguard (which run USD$115 and up, depending on material - white, pearloid, tortoise shell).
 
Bruno said:
Street Avenger said:
The Dimarzio Injector should provide what you're looking for.

:icon_thumright:

I'm thinking about an insane wiring with 2 injector and 5way switch: pu-neck, pu-neck split, pu-neck + pu-bridge, pu-bridge split, pu-bridge
(but...I know, it's impossibile with a normal 5way switch :P)

I wouldn't split those pickups. They will actually sound best wired the standard way.
 
Bagman67 said:
The Carvin twin rail pickups also have a solid bass signal, and they're cheap!  http://www.carvinguitars.com/products/group.php?cid=80

I think the upgrade from the standard single coils is about USD$15 for a preassembled pickguard (which run USD$115 and up, depending on material - white, pearloid, tortoise shell).

all good thing but, my guitar is rear rout...  :sad1:

So, I still recall with dismay, when at the beginning of the project, I tried on that guitar (I repeat: mahogany with 16mm flamed maple top, bird's eye maple with ebony gabon fingerboard): Seymour Duncan SSL-1.
Perhaps pups with more treble that I've tried :P
 
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