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Title: Pickup recommendations for guitar with alder body, walnut top and maple neck
Post by: Economista on January 14, 2017, 07:44:28 PM
Need recommendations for Dimarzio pickups (single pickup for neck, humbucker for bridge), for a guitar with the following configuration:

Alder body with walnut top (body is chambered)
Maple neck and fingerboard
Locking trem

I play, hard rock, 80's hair metal, fusion/progressive music.

Thanks in advance for the feedback.
Title: Re: Pickup recommendations for guitar with alder body, walnut top and maple neck
Post by: jazzfromhell on January 15, 2017, 03:59:24 AM
What type of tone are you going for? What do you like? Help us out a bit here.
Title: Re: Pickup recommendations for guitar with alder body, walnut top and maple neck
Post by: Economista on January 15, 2017, 06:00:52 AM
Looking for good clean tones from the neck pickup, but also the abilty to get great full tones when soloing. For the bridge humbucker, I'm looking for power, clarity (good string definition), with good mids, but highs that are not ear piercing.
Title: Re: Pickup recommendations for guitar with alder body, walnut top and maple neck
Post by: greenlion on January 15, 2017, 03:05:29 PM
Breed bridge with cruiser neck, or one of the Area single coils maybe.

What do you have in it now, and what do you not like about it?
Title: Re: Pickup recommendations for guitar with alder body, walnut top and maple neck
Post by: Economista on January 15, 2017, 04:26:40 PM
It is a new build, so there are no pickups in it right now. I
It is also my first guitar with that particular wood combo, so I'm a little lost as to what pickups should I put in the guitar to get the tones that I'm after.
Title: Re: Pickup recommendations for guitar with alder body, walnut top and maple neck
Post by: darkbluemurder on January 16, 2017, 03:57:37 AM
Breed bridge with cruiser neck, or one of the Area single coils maybe.

What do you have in it now, and what do you not like about it?

The loudness of these two pickups will be very different. I have a guitar with a Cruiser bridge in the neck and a Chopper T in the bridge. The Cruiser almost kisses the strings whereas I backed off the Chopper T quite a bit and the Cruiser still cannot keep up. I would go for something slightly hotter in the bridge neck, e.g. Chopper or Satch Track.

Cheers Stephan