RR3R pickup suggestions?

[TroubledWine]

Getting my new RR3R setup and new pickups installed soon. Still tossing around ideas but I'm not sure what sounds what with a bolt-on Rhoads. I've always been a LP guy so I know what pickups sound like in those but with this being my first bolt-on, and Jackson, I'm not sure if my research is leadin' me in the right direction.

At first I was thinking about EMGs, but then I started leaning towards a Dimarzio Liquifire in the neck, and a Dimarzio Tone Zone in the bridge. Maybe an Evo, though.

As far as music goes, I like it all...from Kiss to Killswitch Engage, from Megadeth to All That Remains, Ozzy to Dream Theater, Joe Bonamassa to Children of Bodom, Zakk Wylde(Pride & Glory, Book of Shadows, BLS) to Trivium, to GNR and Glass Casket, etc. etc.

No I'm not saying I'm looking for a set of pickups to encompass all of this but obviously I'm not lookin' for a Duncan JB/Jazz set, either. I'm not even familiar with the type of wood this guitar is made of or what works best with this setup(bolt-on, wood type, etc.) so I'm leavin' it up to you Jackson experts to make some suggestions.

[Twitch]

According to the catalog scans and the SD website, your guitar has the HB103 Duncan Designed set in it. Id try them out before you pull them. I have the DD103(same thing, older version) in my KE3 and its killer. If you end up not liking, I think I could find them a good home. May the forum gods have mercy on me for stating that outside of the classifieds.

[DK2M92]

For the stuff you listed.. it seems like just a JB jazz seems fine, but thats what I have and love it. Hate EMGs and dont see the whole attraction to Dimarzio. Just me though.

[Nightbat]

but obviously I'm not lookin' for a Duncan JB/Jazz set, either.

...because of your experience with them? :think:

[TroubledWine]

...because of your experience with them? :think:

Had them in a few LPs, actually. Also had Alnico II Pro/Jazz set in one, too, as well as EMG 81/60 in one as well. The Studio in the pic is the only LP I've kept(the first one I bought) and I've kept it original because I love the tone it already has. Got it refretted by Mark Kane at Fat Sound in Cary, NC a couple weeks ago and he said it was by far the best playing/sounding Studio he's run across.