garfo

I have a new custom guitar made by a luthier friend of mine. It is a hybrid strat and it has some special features that make it unique and quite hard to choose the right pickups for it.
It has bridge and neck pickups(Currently Bill Lawrence S1 and S3), with a 250k blend pot.
The body is made of two woods glued in three pieces: bubinga in the core, and ash on top and bottom.
It is set neck, with maple fretboard and it has a lespaul bridge style .

The guitar itself seems to sing more on the bright/treble side but does have some sustain due to its build. I wanted to hear some experienced opinions on how to choose the best pickups for my strat.I like the Hendrix Sound as well as David Gilmour, but I also like some dirtier heavier stuff like heavy psicadelhic rock(Tool/Oceansize/Amplifier)
I use a skreddy lady muff, a low gain germanium fuzzface, through a 50 watt 6l6 valve amp.
The pickups I have at the moment just don't do it for me, the neck is actually ok, it sounds full , bassy and cristal clear, but the bridge souns round and that's it, no crispy highs, no tight lows, it0's just bland.
I want to get nice clear/crispy highs and to recover the unatural bass of the guitar.
What a tstament...!!!! :

garfo

By the way, I've been looking into Suhr pickups, Fender Custom Shops and Dimarzios

ragingkitty

Err, that's a really interesting choice of woods and setups.

However just addressing the blandness of the bridge, a Bare Knuckle creamic Nailbomb would be very very suitable... but I think it's gonna be too hot for the cleaner sounds, so you might end up tweaking the volume knob a lot.

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