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    Help- Suggest me a new pickup for my SLS

    I am playing it through a 5150 and an Avatar cab. The body is mahogany with a maple top and a mahogany neck.

    I have a PAF Pro in the neck and it is perfect.

    I'm finding the bridge pickup, which is a Dimarzio Super Distortion, is not working for me. I need it to be a little tighter for heavy palm mutes and detuned low stuff since I tune to drop C. Its also a lot harder to pull of pinch harmonics. I never had a problem with them but I seem to be for some reason. I've had guitars with Bill Lawrence xl 500's, SD jb's, and EMGS and I have never really had a problems with harmonics. The jb was a little too muddy for me but the harmonics were great. I can not really remember what the EMGS or Bill Lawrence pups sounded like but I know I liked them.

    I really do not want to go with EMGS because I would have to replace both pickups (I dont think I can mix actives with passives). Can anyone suggest a new bridge pickup?... X2N, Super 3, Evo 2?
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    Tone Zone.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by toejam View Post
      Tone Zone.
      I had a TZ in my old Model 2 and it ripped.
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        • #5
          Tone Zone +2
          Hey, if you go with the TZ, do you need regular spaced or F-spaced?
          I just bought a RGA321 and the original owner had a regular spaced TZ put in instead of an F-Spaced.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by toejam View Post
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            • #7
              Originally posted by NextInLine View Post
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              No way! My TZ and your JB will fight in the parking lot at 3:00, along with my DiMarzio Super Distortion vs. Travis' Duncan Distortion!
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              • #8
                My Dimebucker can kick your PU's arse. ahahahahaha!

                TZs are good. So are the JBs. If you have the luxury, set up a quick connect system and swap PUs in & out until you find something you're happy with.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by toejam View Post
                  No way! My TZ and your JB will fight in the parking lot at 3:00, along with my DiMarzio Super Distortion vs. Travis' Duncan Distortion!
                  My JB is exercising
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                  • #10
                    im pretty sure you CAN mix actives with passives. on RAN's site in the gallery theres a guitar with an EMG and a SD. i say either a dimarzio X2N or EMG-81

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                        hmm thats odd..
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by aidandude View Post
                          im pretty sure you CAN mix actives with passives. on RAN's site in the gallery theres a guitar with an EMG and a SD. i say either a dimarzio X2N or EMG-81
                          You can, but you'll need to run them on separate controls since the EMGs use 25k pots and the passives will need 500k, 250k or 1meg. And a booster will be needed to keep the output levels even between the two.
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                          • #14
                            X2N, I have one in the bridge and its amazing.Period
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                            • #15
                              Tone Zone or a Duncan Custom.
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