Chiguete
Experienced
So long story short I've had a Kramer Sagemaster Custom for more that 15 years and it was my first top level guitar. When I boght it it didn't came with the original pickups in it's HSS form: SD JB and 2 Vitage Saggered, it had a Dimarzio Air Zone, HS-3 and a SD Hot Rails. All was good in my ears back then and I made things work with them, but years went by and things changed... I started buying other guitars and adding them to my collection and then I started to notice the diference between them and didn't like how this guitar sounded: the neck pickup was WAY too muddy, the middle was in the way of my picking so it went as much down in to the body as it could and the bridge pickups was just not convincing either.
So I sold the SD Hot Rails and the Air Zone and now I will try the HS-3 in the neck and I have in the bridge a non label pickup that actually sounds ok but I think I can do better!
BTW I forgot to say that I play basicly 70's and 80's rock and metal and normally that meens a hot pickup to help overdrive an amp from back then BUT that really is not needed when using a modeller because you can boost the signal in a lot of different ways or you can just use a higher gain amp.
So do you think you should choose it differently taking in to acount that you have a modeller? and if you guys would choose a pickup considering the body woods what would you choose?
PS:
In another thread I started just to talk about the approach of choosing a pickup if you have a modeller, that thread is this https://forum.fractalaudio.com/thre...-approach-to-choosing-a-guitar-pickup.149916/
So I sold the SD Hot Rails and the Air Zone and now I will try the HS-3 in the neck and I have in the bridge a non label pickup that actually sounds ok but I think I can do better!
BTW I forgot to say that I play basicly 70's and 80's rock and metal and normally that meens a hot pickup to help overdrive an amp from back then BUT that really is not needed when using a modeller because you can boost the signal in a lot of different ways or you can just use a higher gain amp.
So do you think you should choose it differently taking in to acount that you have a modeller? and if you guys would choose a pickup considering the body woods what would you choose?
PS:
In another thread I started just to talk about the approach of choosing a pickup if you have a modeller, that thread is this https://forum.fractalaudio.com/thre...-approach-to-choosing-a-guitar-pickup.149916/