Charvel1975
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So I finally made the decision to just go to passive pickups on my Charvel Model 5FX. I'm going to have to save up money to get new pickups, wiring kit, capacitors, treble bleed, output jack, potentiometers (wondering if the guitar will have to have the holes routed out?) The 3-way toggle switch was replaced years ago so I'm thinking I should be ok there. The guitar has a Poplar body with Maple neck-thru neck, rosewood fingerboard. The old gold Floyd Rose and EMG-81 were put back in along with a setup and strung with D'Addairo .009-.040 strings in standard E tuning some time ago. Plugged in, guitar is extremely bright sounding and doesn't have any punch, clarity or definition to it.
Bridge pickup will need to be Trem-spaced and neck single coil cannot have the flange at the bottom. I'm looking for pickups that can cover classic rock/hard rock/80's metal tones and be defined and good midrange yet having plenty of beef and clean up well with rolling the volume control. Debating if I want to do coil splitting or just keep it simple & straightforward as the guitar has 1 Volume, 1 Tone and a 3-way toggle switch. Seymour Duncan TB-16 59/Custom Hybrid with either a Seymour Duncan Cool Rails or Classic Stack Plus for the neck come to mind so far.
Bridge pickup will need to be Trem-spaced and neck single coil cannot have the flange at the bottom. I'm looking for pickups that can cover classic rock/hard rock/80's metal tones and be defined and good midrange yet having plenty of beef and clean up well with rolling the volume control. Debating if I want to do coil splitting or just keep it simple & straightforward as the guitar has 1 Volume, 1 Tone and a 3-way toggle switch. Seymour Duncan TB-16 59/Custom Hybrid with either a Seymour Duncan Cool Rails or Classic Stack Plus for the neck come to mind so far.
