help me with pickups...

i just sold my squier strat and i have money to buy new pickups.... i have a custom gutiar... and it has 2 humbucekr slots, my main choices was a seymour duncan jb model in the bridge and a semour duncan jazz model for the neck.... i wonder if u have any other suggestions and tell me if my choices are good enough.... here are my details...

1) i play rock, heavy metal, numetal, some punk, and a little grunge, mostly music like metallica, nirvana, creed, a little blink, a play also mostly leads, wen i play with my friend... so im a lead gutiarist, i do heavy metal solos...

2) i dont know if this is useful information but ill jsut post my equipment, peavy rage 158 (im getting a marshall avt50 soon), dod super stereo chorus, ibanez delay echo, boss sd-2 dual overdrive, boss ds-2 turbo distortion, boss mt-2 metal zone, jim dunlop crybaby, and my custom guitar (24 fret, set neck, 2 humbuckers, 1 tone, 1 volume, wilkinson vg300 bridge)....

so ppl i need some feedbak, thnx in advance....

you also might wanna try dimarzio's, they sound really good, order a catalog from their website, it takes a couple of weeks to get there, but it's a good catalog anyway. they usually cost i think about $60 per each at the shop, and they're great pickups providing you know which ones to choose from...

Not to confuse the issue, but i beleive Carvin M22 or C22 humbuckers, http://www.carvin.com (about $100 plus shipping) are good. So are Kent Armstrong. Try a guitars with different makes already fitted - ask the tech at you local guitar store, he should have a fairly honest opinion.

Don't forget different types of body wood will affect how the PUs sound.

Good luck.

OK, let's start with this, what makes you think you need new pick-ups to begin with? What kind of pick-ups are in your guitar right now? What kind of guitar is it (Brand and model#), Can you tell me how many ohms resistance your pick-ups have? Enquiring Minds want to Know........

hi ppl! well the guitar i have is a custom guitar, made for me by a guitar company in the philippines named rj.... my uncles friend is the owner of rj, so its was a birthday gift...he never told me any thing about the guitar.... he jsut gave it to me, so i didnt know the pickups, the resistance and that kinda stuff.... so now i want new pickups, so i can actualyy get the sound i want, and know wat i have, so about the pickups, any suggestions, please make it seymour duncan, cuz in singapore i can only find seymour duncan pickusp.... so suggestions? fedbak on my choices?

a guy with some RJ guitars...

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9985

is yours one of these ??

Or can you post us a picture?

I'm quite keen to see it now! :)

Go for the Seymours Miggs, the JB is a hot pick-up for the bridge, you might want to order a 2MEG ohm pot with it to really get the most out of it, I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, I just see alot of posts about pick up changes and know that most guitar players are just hot to change pick ups at the drop of a hat with out trying to get the most out of ther ones the have, so they pay the bucks for the brand name stuff and then don't learn to optimize those either, I just don't want see you toss your money away

well acutally my guitar, is an rj special, cuz u see this guy named rj is the owener of rj, and he is my uncles friend, and he personally made this guitar, so it was a special guitar, only one in the world, unless someone makes a copy, so no one else has it except me (not bragging or anything).... ill post a picture of my guitar, ignore the the squier strat above cuz i already sold it today... so pstring, u think the jb is a hot pickup? cool! wats a 2emg ohm pot? wat ppl wat are ur thoughts about the jazz model being in my neck.... im not tossing away my monmey thats why im asking u ppl, so i would really make a good desicion.... so anyone got any other suggestions? or comments on my choices?

how can i psot a pic?

Originally posted by Migs4
how can i psot a pic?

I've forgotten..*D'oh*

Can you stick it on a server and give us a URL(Link).

O Yeah, that JB is a screamer, for the neck the Jazz is OK, I would probaly go for a PAF, but thats my preference, what is a pot, well your volume and tone controls are pots, potentiometers, that is, but it's alot easier to spell Pots, anyhow, most guitars that come with humbuckers use 500K ohm pots, which is good for a pu with the normal 7-8k ohm impedance, you see a humbucker doesn't have higher frequency treble output of say a strat single coil pu, the smaller the rating of the vol pot, the more higher frequencies are cut off, the vol pot is like a door, the high freqs need a bigger door to get thru. Now when pu's get hotter they need a bigger door to take optimum advantage of the increased output and to keep the highs, so the 2meg ohm pot is a door 4 times bigger than the standard 5ook ohm pot. I know SD has 2Meg pots on their website, also how many vol controls on your guitar?

Don't want to come over all ahrsh or anything (and this isn't even my forum) but would you mind maybe cutting down on your signature a bit? It's cool to have a couple of lines as a signature, but if everyone started putting in signatures as big as yours the threads would be way too long. Hope I don't sound like a jerk, I hope you understand where I'm coming from.

hey sure ill cut my signature, if it helps the forums than its ok... ok well my gutiar has one volume and one tone control tahts about it.... so wat u think i should do? wat happens if i dont get taht pot thing? i think its cool that ppl like the jb, and it think the jb is good to... but it kinda lacks bas but tahts good, cuz it wont sound really dark, i can jsut turhn up the bass in my metal zone for heavy palm muting.... only for distortion.... so i think ill get the jb, and about the neck, wats wrong about the jazz model? i think its quite cool cuz its kidna like the same tone as the jb model, it has scoped mids, high treb, kinda low bass... so wats wreong with it? any more suggetions....?

have a look here at explanations of how the pots and electrical controls work on a guitar

http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/menu.html :)

http://www.kinman.com/html/toneWorkshop/perfectGuitar.htm#potValues

Nothing wrong with the Jazz, the JB&Jazz combo are Seymour Duncan's personal favorite combination, who am I to argue with him. Your vol pot will be fine, since you have one vol pot I myself would probaly opt for a 1Meg pot as a compromise because of the difference in impedence between the JB and the Jazz. You can't go wrong with your choices, I think they are very good and I hope you enjoy your new sound. I really like to experiment with guitar sound and like to let people know about the many options available, Have fun Miggs!

well ok good so ill be getting the jb and the jazz model, thnk alot guys, so my pots are ok, my pickups are good..... im getting them soon....

Originally posted by pstring
Nothing wrong with the Jazz, the JB&Jazz combo are Seymour Duncan's personal favorite combination, who am I to argue with him. Your vol pot will be fine, since you have one vol pot I myself would probaly opt for a 1Meg pot as a compromise because of the difference in impedence between the JB and the Jazz. You can't go wrong with your choices, I think they are very good and I hope you enjoy your new sound. I really like to experiment with guitar sound and like to let people know about the many options available, Have fun Miggs!

wat do u mean by impedence???? and how do u know my volume pot will be fine?

The impedance of a pick-up is measured in ohms, the JB has about twice as resistance than the standard humbucker, the Jazz about 1,000 ohms less than standard. The standard volume pot for humbuckers is 500k, all those high dollar fancy guitars out there that come with custom pick-ups out of the factory, all come with 500k ohm pots, your guitar will sound fine, don't worry about it , relax, play some music, life's groovy

thnx alot guys, for helping em decided the pickups ill get....