Love my Jackson King V but HATE the pickups please help?

[Kpshredder98]

Help needed..!!! I have a JS32 dinky with a basswood body and standard Jackson pups. I was thinking of gettin dimarzio d activator or SD invader..!!

So the thing is, which one should I go for...??
I mostly play metal core, death metal...(all the high gain stuff )
But I like to play clean also.

D activator
Bass:6.5
Mids:6
Treble:6

Sd invader
Bass:7
Mids:8
Treble:3 or 4
Plz help me..!!

[Sunbane]

The SD Invader sounds a bit muffled to me, so I don't think it will be good with a basswood body.

For high output, I would go for a Duncan TB-6 Distortion, or the SH-13 Dimebucker. If you need even more output, you can boost the signal with an overdrive pedal.

Here is a nice video with a bunch of SD bridge pickups:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FE2PDH61h0

(Note that the guy is using a high gain amp of some kind. If your amp is on the tamer side, you will need to push it with a pedal.)

You can use the neck pickup for cleans with a low output pickup, such as the SH-1N.

[Newc]

OP knows the HZs are passive:

Doh!

[Newc]

Help needed..!!! I have a JS32 dinky with a basswood body and standard Jackson pups. I was thinking of gettin dimarzio d activator or SD invader..!!

So the thing is, which one should I go for...??
I mostly play metal core, death metal...(all the high gain stuff )
But I like to play clean also.

D activator
Bass:6.5
Mids:6
Treble:6

Sd invader
Bass:7
Mids:8
Treble:3 or 4
Plz help me..!!

What amp are you using? What OD/Distortion pedals are you using? If the pedals and amp are high-gain, you won't need high-gain pickups. If the amp and pedals together won't get you there, then high-gain pickups should push it up a bit, but you might also lose the ability to get really clean tones.