David Tesch
Inspired
You can fiddle around and try to compensate for what you think a set of pickups is lacking, but it's tough to add something good into your sound that isn't being picked up at the string level. If you want different pickups then put in different pickups. As for me, switching from EMGs to Dimarzios was one of the best changes I made. I cringe when someone is trying to use a bridge EMG for lead tones, I really do.