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Pickup Selection Help

lead_guitar2
November 2nd, 2009, 12:34 PM
I need some help selecting Pickups for my Custom Tele being built.

I am looking for something with a nice clean tone with the ability to get some Vintage tone and still retain some twang. I play modern rock (nothing heavy/no metal) and some pop/rock.

I run into a lot of effects (delays/overdrives) into a Badcat Black Cat 30r.

My Current guitar is a PRS Custom 24 and a Gibson Les Paul.

This is the combination I had thought of: Neck(Gibson Mini Humbucker)/Middle(Seymour Duncan Hot Stack for Strat)/bridge(Lollar '52 T Series Bridge Pickup)

Do you think that would work for me? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

mellecaster
November 2nd, 2009, 12:41 PM
You say you run thru quite a few effects...I would try looking at something in the noiseless Variety...ie Bardens..Kinmanns...Lace...Fender SCNs...etc...and don't rule out EMGs.

randysmojo
November 2nd, 2009, 12:47 PM
Also in the noiseless area, I've heard a lot of good things about the Dimarzio Area T and Hot Area T pickups. Probably a little less doe than some of the others, and Brad Paisley is using at an Area T in at least one of his guitars.(I think the blue Crook with the West Virginia logo in it if I remember right)

lead_guitar2
November 2nd, 2009, 10:54 PM
I want something in the Bridge that has a little more "balls" (for lack of a better word) than a standard tele pickup but that still retains some of the tele sound.

In the neck I would definitely want something clean with a lot of clarity and tone.

randysmojo
November 3rd, 2009, 12:03 PM
The Area Hot T might work for you there. Check out the sound samples they have online. http://www.dimarzio.com/site/#/pickups/. Go to the hum canceling section of the Tele pickups.