New to the forum, question about new pickups my Soloist Pro Standard

[Krymson86]

So I bought this guitar used. From the serial I can tell it's made in 1995. It came with all of it's stock components, the only thing I've changed is I have a new input jack.

Anyways, my question is about the stock bridge pickups which according to the audiozone scans that get posted on here are J-92Cs. They are rated as really high output, but I'm just wondering if there's something I can do in terms of changing pickups or switching out a new magnet to get a little bit more bite out of them?

Or should I just try use a bit more gain from my amp and my GT3? I think part of my problem is that my other guitar is a KV3 with an EMG81 in the bridge, and I just wish I could get similar output from the Soloist, but with the same tone that it has now.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Sunbane]

Hello and welcome!

You may want to experiment with pickup height to get the most out of your pickups, but ultimately, I think you'd want to get some kind of gain booster to raise the output level a bit more. EMG makes a few on-board circuits that you install into the guitar (PA2 has an "on/off" mini switch, and the AB is a volume control with push-pull activation of the boost circuit).

You could also just run your guitar through a boost pedal.

[Krymson86]

Thanks for the advice Sunbane. Yeah, for the moment I just added a bit of overdrive to my setup and it's almost where I want it. I think an added gain boost for my guitar is ultimately what I'll end up doing, once I get some money. For the time being though, the added OD really helped. Thanks again.