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Tamed the top and gave a better mid range.
Work really well in superstrats - open and 'airy' but with great sustain, too.
They are awesomes
The Norton is also awesome, and the Air Norton at the neck is also wonderful - its this or the Paf Pro at the neck that works for me if I'm not looking at Aldrichs.
Saying that, some of the other Suhr pickups are lovely and very articulate too.
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Articulate organic pickups which swell and can rock out include Duncan JB bridge, Dimarzio 36th anniversary set and AT-1 bridge and The Breed neck.
JB is pretty good to be honest, it's warm and it screams, but you could experiment and try a magnet swap for an alnico 2. It has Alnico 5 on it. Always wanted to try this.Have to try the Custom Custom one day.
Tonezone and EVO is good. Tonezone also uses an Alnico 5, but much more crunchier, defined and 2 dimensional tone though, not metal as such, quite satisfying really percussive muted and loads of low string definition, which gets lost on the warmer, more organic pickups above which are more wallowy and it squeals without being too shrill.
Agree about the Duncan distortion. Way too shrill overkill. Makes you deaf. Just Horrible. The Dimarzio Super Distortion on the other hand is very good too.
Dimarzio's are good because they come in crème. Crème pickups always sound better.
As does mine.
I found lowering the pickups helped to get a much better, less muddy sound from them.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I have Bulldog pups in three of my guitars.. two Morgan V6's and an Ibanez RG.
They are superb.. tight and bright so they offer great definition.. powerful enough to give the amp something nice to chew on, but not so powerful as to make them too single minded..
overly hot pups tend to sound great for riff tones, but get shrill as you head up the neck.. so the soloing tones suffer..
the Bulldogs are great in all situations.. from pretty cleans [ambient arps / strummy stuff etc], aggressive cleans [funk] through to chunky riffing tones and sweet hi-gain leads.. my Morgan V6 / Bulldog combination was by design a single minded headbanger's guitar with no tone control and a 3-way pup selector.. it turned out to be so much more than that.. surprisingly so..
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)