7 String Soapbar Mount Options

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So I have this Buz McGrath sig guitar. Love the guitar, don’t love the pickups. They are the Steph Carpenter Fluence pickups.

What else is out there for something with a little lower output? I know I’m pretty much stuck with active pickups, but I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with other pickups. Fluence/EMG/Seymour Duncan makes some I know, any other builders I should check out? I had Fluence moderns in an 8 string guitar and liked them a little better, but not a lot

I would prefer not to mod the guitar enough to put normal humbuckers in it. If it gets to that point I would just sell it off and get something closer to what I want


Thanks!
 
Bare Knuckle and Duncan I think makes passive 7-strings pickups under a soapbar cover.
 
SD makes all kinds of active and passive in soapbars. I really love the Nazgul/Pegasus/Sentients, as they were specifically made for extended range and drop tuned guitars. The blackouts are okay(and can be found cheap, like half off new msrp), better than EMGs for drop tuning imo, but no soul or nuances, really. I also really like stock legator hive pickups for passive and have only changed them out for specific tones on secondary guitars, but they are passive and are coil split capable. See them here and there for cheap, may even have a set laying around. Not as versatile as what you have in there now, but better for traditional metal, imo. Emg makes all kinds like the traditional models as well as the 707, 707x(better gain articulation) and TW(coil split capable).

All that said, I haven't been genuinely impressed by a pickup swap in years until I did the Nazgul/Sentients. Others have been fine/new/different/nice/expected, whatevs, but they would be my #1 desert island pickups without a second thought. Gain set to 0 or 11, doesn't matter, awesome. The name sentient describes them perfectly.
 
Funk'n Metal said:
SD makes all kinds of active and passive in soapbars. I really love the Nazgul/Pegasus/Sentients, as they were specifically made for extended range and drop tuned guitars. The blackouts are okay(and can be found cheap, like half off new msrp), better than EMGs for drop tuning imo, but no soul or nuances, really. I also really like stock legator hive pickups for passive and have only changed them out for specific tones on secondary guitars, but they are passive and are coil split capable. See them here and there for cheap, may even have a set laying around. Not as versatile as what you have in there now, but better for traditional metal, imo. Emg makes all kinds like the traditional models as well as the 707, 707x(better gain articulation) and TW(coil split capable).

All that said, I haven't been genuinely impressed by a pickup swap in years until I did the Nazgul/Sentients. Others have been fine/new/different/nice/expected, whatevs, but they would be my #1 desert island pickups without a second thought. Gain set to 0 or 11, doesn't matter, awesome. The name sentient describes them perfectly.
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EMG is probably the way I’m gonna go, but I will definitely look more in to the Seymour Duncan route. I’d love to not have batteries to worry about but I’ve accepted it may still be my fate.
 
Aynirar27 said:
EMG is probably the way I’m gonna go, but I will definitely look more in to the Seymour Duncan route. I’d love to not have batteries to worry about but I’ve accepted it may still be my fate.
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I would try an 81-7 with the 24 volt mod or just the 81-7x. Not a fan of the 707's.
 
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