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  • Charvel 1990 Fusion Spécial pick up question

    I just trade an Epiphone LP Goth equiped with a Zack wylde EMG pick up kit (81-85 plus electronics) for a Charvel Fusion Spécial. Before doing it i have done some research and find that it was made in Japan and also that Jackson and Charvel guitar from that era built in Japan were good instrument. The week point in that one are the pick up. Irealy like the feel of the guitar, but the pick up have the lowest output i ever seen. I have to completely change the set up of my amp pedal and noise gate to compeansate for the weak pic-up.
    I play mostly hard rock and old heavy metal . ( Ozzy, Black Sabath,Metalica,Testament, etc). I'm looking to replace the pick up, but realy don't know what to put in that to have the sound i'm looking for. I like Dimarzio evolution and tone zone and also EVH pick up but
    my guitar have a bizarre 3 single coil size ( suposely mini humbucker ) J-200 with no booster. What model of mini Humbucker do you suggest to me ? Do they have as much output and as good sound as a real humbuker ?
    Ho and to complicate a bit more , i can't put a real humbuker at the bridge because the bridge and middle pick up are put together in a slant position.

    Any sugestion for me ?

  • #2
    I forget to say that the main reason for me to change the pic-up , is that as soon as i put a bit of gain it sqeal like a pig ( bridge pick up ) and they are noisy. The middle and neck pick up seems better, but again i have to put so much gain to help them that i have to change everythings in my set -up. The guys that change it to me tell me that he just have change the volume and the jack . I can't figure why Charvel have put J-200 in that guitar. In my Idea Charvel are made For Heavy rock , i doesn't whant a fender.

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    • #3
      Well, there's a reason the Special wasn't the most popular of the Fusions.

      Why not go for some rail pickups? Hot rails, cool rails, etc?

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      • #4
        I'm looking at mini Humbucker from Dimarzio and Seymour, but i'm not really sure witch one to choose. Do they sound like real humbucker. The sample that i find doesn convince me

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        • #5
          pic's???
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          • #6
            There's a ton on minis that sound like humbuckers with high output. Dimario has the tone zone s and distoriton s and SD I would look at the hot rails.

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