Bridge Pickup

[Noah Berends]

Hey fellas, so I have a Schecter that came with a Seymour Duncan Full Shred, and it’s great and all, but it’s very focused on the midrange and thus doesn’t sound very good in clean tones or low drive tones. As much as I love playing metal, I’d like to have something with a more diverse set of tones that can compliment the tones from the Sustainiac pickup well, since they’re two very different sound sets. So I was wondering what y’all’s favorite bridge pickups are. I’ve used an EMG 57 a lot and I reeeeeeally love how it sounds, and the install would be easy since I already have a battery cavity for the Sustainiac. Even so, I’d like to hear what others think.

 

[idssdi]

I personally never really looked into pickups that much, I’ve always just used stock pickups. All I know that besides the sustainiac I don’t really like active pickups but if you like the emg-57 a lot you maybe you can go for that one. I’m not really familiar with whole active thing but if you want the sustainiac and an emg don’t you need two battery compartments?

 

[Dominik Gräber]

I have an Epiphone with EMG 85 and 81 pickups and they can be used for a lot in my opinion. I am not sure which one is which but one is just aggressive and cold, while I can use the other one for sweet warm clean stuff, maybe one of them is worth checking out? I have no experience with a 57er though

 

[Noah Berends]

@Ids I was told since the Sustainiac already runs off a battery, I could hook up another active pickup to the same power-giving line and it would get the power. It makes sense since if you have two EMG’s, they also run off one battery.
@dominik yeah those two are alright, but the 57 is more attuned to a classic humbucker, with the clarity of an active pickup, so I like the sound.

 

[Calvin Phillips]

I got the one on my apocalypse with the sustainiac pick up and I feel it sounds great. Can even get some great leads out of it as well. So clean yet, so heavy.

 

[Ian Stuart]

Check out Bare Knuckle pickups!
I just got a Miracle Man set and they sound insane! So versatile I absolutely love them!
They’ve got a huge collection to choose from and each has a selection of tone samples so you can really get the feel of them before you buy!