i have their pickups on 5 of my guitars. they rock! i have the screamer humbuckers and i also have a strat with their emg gilmour cloned set. i can't say enough good stuff about them.
the screamers sound pretty dead on to a set of duncan distortion's.
the active emg clones sound dead on to...
i did a quick rp1000 w/ blackstar ht-5 video awhile back. the rp1000 is really nice in 4cm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T3VaUFU1cg
oh, and i did figure out how to get the amp levels right after this video.
check out the digitech forum for tons of presets i made. user "singtall".
i come from a different place as a Meshuggah listener. i was an 80's shredder. i can see the eyes roll already. it was a different time of course. i really like the new stuff. that song in particular works for me.
when i first heard stuff like Chaosphere i thought "these guys are...
i'll probably get flamed for the suggestion, but...guitarpartsonline.com has a SET of humbuckers for $25 that flat out rock. yep, they are asian knockoffs, but at least they knocked off good pickups.
i have three sets of them. here are the ones i suggest...
i like the digitech pedal better than the 78.
another pedal i really liked is the digitech distortion factory. for $99 you get several different distortion pedals in one box.