Baritone PU suggestions.

[the rossness]

I have an ESP LTD GL600 baritone and I'm looking to replace the bridge pickup. Stock, it has a JB, but I find that its a little muddy and has a bit too much high end. Ideally, I'd like to find a pickup that has more body, great definition and and a nice bite that never gets muddy. A cut treble wouldn't be bad either. Build-wise, its a mahogany body, maple neck- through guitar. I'm using this guitar for alternative rock and clean music. I'd like it to be good for both clean and heavily distorted tones. What bridge pickups should I be looking at?

 

[the rossness]

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[p4vl]

I have a semi-baritone (25.5 scale with d'addario baritone lite strings) Ibanez RG2550 Prestige basswood with a Duncan Distortion in the bridge, varied between B standard and Drop A (Pig Destroyer fan). Contrary to popular opinion, the Duncan Distortion is not just a JB with an oversized ceramic mag (had the JB in a LP copy and it was horrible).

The DD is quite defined with my semi-baritone and hot without that annoying 'can't do anything but hardest of rock and metal'. Then again, I'm playing a peavey xxx w/e34l's and 2 x Emi Legend v12, so I have the ultra's gain channel on 8-9 o'clock I literally I have gain coming out of my ass.

Amp/Speakers?

 

[aeroic]

I personally use very low, brighter output picks. I found if you use higher output pickups it will be all muddy. I had a guitar I tried BKP Rebel Yells, and it was all mush. I changed them to BKP Stormy Mondays and the guitar came alive. And it has tons of snap, grind and push if I want it to. PAF / brighter / lower output pickups are a must IMHO.