Nice picture
@bishop5150 !!! I love the marble fireplace and floor, and the fleur de lee wrought iron side pieces, it's like your guitars are in a museum.
Is that really your house? That's beautiful! Is the guitar on the left one of the newer Indonesian RR3's? I have the Indonesian made RRXMG and Rhoads Pro Series RR (<couldn't they come up with a better name?). Both great guitars I picked up used for under 5 bills. I also have an older MIJ RR5 (paid $405!) which is a better guitar but lacks neck binding, is your black one on the right an MIJ RR5? Edwards Les Paul, Arbor PD V? Nice Axe's
Fender Nocasters (Triple Tele)
Kinman Blues Strat
TV Jones Power'Tron+ / Power'Tron
Lindy Fralin Tele Split Blades - High Output
Railhammer Nuevo 90s
Dimarzio Mo' Joe / Pro Track
Suhr SSH+ / Seymour Duncan Jazz (uncovered)
Geez the only one I'm familar with is the Duncan Jazz, is it being used as a neck or bridge pickup? I've heard those Fralin's are nice.
I have gone through huge amount of pickups among them active pickups like EMG/Fishman/SD Blackouts but I never really liked that active compressed tone.
I've heard the Blackouts are pretty outrageous, never tried the the Fishman, but the only EMG I've found compressed is the 81. The others like the 85, 89, 60 and SA (the ones that I've tried) all have Alnico magnets and other than the 85 being powerful I didn't find it too compressed. I didn't like it in the bridge position, not for metal anyway but I currently have one in my RRXMG (neck) and it sounds surprizingly good. I've always used the 89 in the neck position (which is an 85/SA mix, oh and an 85 is basically two SA's wired in series), I used the coil tap all the time so it was a noiseless single coil, awesome for clean tones. I also had a white Fender Strat with 3 SA'a like David Gilmour's setup, only I was using it for the Metallica band I was in, (Kirk Hammett uses a white one for the song Unforgiven). I haven't tried the newer Hetset but do have the KH Bone Breakers signatures, they sound nice, warmer than the 81. I still need more time with them to give a better description, they're in a KH 602 Purple Sparkle.
For lead guitar my fav is still the Seymour Duncan TB4 or "JB." I just love its tone and I dial the amp in a lot like Marty Friedman's on Megadeth's "Rust In Peace" album. The EMG 81 is much tighter on the low end, its best attribute, but not as warm as the TB4. I suppose my ideal pickup would be like the 81 for rhythm guitar and TB4/JB for lead, although live the 81 cut through the mix better.
I'd like to try some BKP's, I almost bought a RR1 equipped with Nailbombs, which I've read sound outstanding for all kinds of music genre's.