I need a neck pickup recommendation!

[tpl2000]

Bonour, Hola, Aloha, Hello!

I am currently looking for a recommendation for a neck pickup, in one o' my guitars. Really, I'm looking to remove the EMG's in it and replace them with passives, for a slightly more organic tone that requires less 9v battery.

Guitar information:
PRS SE Paul Allender sig
1-piece mahogany body, no chambering from what I can tell
3 piece maple neck, set-neck and all of the pieces are maple
PRS tremolo, 25" scale.


I'm looking for a neck pickup right now that would have a close enough output to a Seymour Duncan Alternative 8.

My genre is largely metal, of the high-gain variety. (The sole exclusions to this are RHCP, Weezer, and improv blues/jazz.)


So, really, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[C-Squared]

Try a DiMarzio Fred. Enough power to balance with anything, great harmonics, and a killer split tone if you wanted a coil tap.

 

[TauSigmaNova]

Liquifire is probably the nicest neck pickup ever madr and nice cleans too but its really dark in mahogany so take either that or an Illuminator which is a brighter LF.

 

[oracles]

Id go for the Gravity Storm or the Liquifire.

 

[Grindspine]

A good replacement for high gain pickups that require no batteries and are a bit more organic than EMGs sounds like the Dimarzio D'Activator set.

What bridge pickup will you be using? We might have better recommendations if we know what bridge pickup you're going to pair with the guitar.

 

[tpl2000]

A good replacement for high gain pickups that require no batteries and are a bit more organic than EMGs sounds like the Dimarzio D'Activator set.

What bridge pickup will you be using? We might have better recommendations if we know what bridge pickup you're going to pair with the guitar.

Seymour Duncan Alternative 8. The pickup is pretty hot stuff, 18k resistance.

 

[jc986]

The Black Winter neck would be a good choice.

 

[TheWarAgainstTime]

Black Winter or Jazz if you stick with Duncan, or an Illuminator or Air Norton if you go with Dimarzio.

The Liquifire is my favorite neck pickup and would be great in that guitar, but may be a little too warm depending on your taste.

 

[Itchyman]

mark morton of lamb of god used a pair of duncan 59's for the longest time..

 

[tpl2000]

Black Winter or Jazz if you stick with Duncan, or an Illuminator or Air Norton if you go with Dimarzio.

The Liquifire is my favorite neck pickup and would be great in that guitar, but may be a little too warm depending on your taste.

Unfortunately, a lot of the liquifire demos I've heard are a bit too dark, and not smooth or bright enough. Strangely enough, this even happens on Ibanez guitars, maple necked/fretboarded and what I'm assuming is a basswood body.

 

[jc986]

mark morton of lamb of god used a pair of duncan 59's for the longest time..

While his signature Jackson came stock with 59's in it for a long time, Mark only briefly used dual '59's. He experimented with the Invader, JB, Distortion, EMG 81, and various DiMarzio's before he settled with the DiMarzio Breed, which ultimately was tweaked a bit and is now his signature Dominion pickup.

That said, the '59 is a good neck pickup, but I prefer the Black Winter neck or Sentient neck from Duncan.

 

[tpl2000]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a site to buy BKPs, or a few BKPs to recommend the checking out of? I'm not really aware of any of the names they label 'em with, or their specs.

 

[jc986]

The Axe Palace is where I've bought my BKP from. They have the best prices in the U.S., and Nick (Zimbloth on this forum) is super helpful if you have questions. Cold Sweat might be a good starting point for a neck humbucker from BKP. Bareknuckle has clips of all of their pickups on their website: https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/pickups.php?cat=humbuckers&sub=contemporary&pickup=cold_sweat