Any advice??

[Force]

Hello

I play MOR covers and need a wide selection on tones. I am struggling with my RG and am playing my strat and PRS more often to achieve funky/Country/blues/non-metal sounds.

The RG plays like a dream and looks great but the Quack sounds are thin and weak and I am starting to question my choice of pickups for a mahogany guitar with a floating trem.

I am currently using EVO's and the stock S1

Should I swap them for something less "metal" or give up on the RG?

The strat and PRS are far more versatile compared to my current RG.

Any advice?

F

[Ibateur]

Breed might give you a better humbucker tone. Humbucker from Hell might give you a better stratty tone. The mid pickup, which I use for more quacky stuff, you can probably change to a HS2 or the Virtual range of Dimarzios. I have a Seymour Duncan JB Jr for my mid, between TZ and PafPro.

Personally, I find the EVO to not be a pickup for mahogany as the wood is already pretty damned bright. A SuperDistortion or ToneZone would be my choice. Hard to get those to quack though.

[NEWYEARKID]

Try a breed neck, a reverse wound blue velvet and a breed bridge along with a super switch wired like a jem. Positions two and four will slpit the humbuckers while the reverse wound middle pickup(real single coil) will cut the noise. The reason your quack sounds are weak is that the output of the evos is drowning out the middle pickup. You could just install a Di Marzio fast track I in the middle along with changing the value of your controlls to 500k or 1 meg-this would be way cheaper than getting new pickups and would give you way more high end and allow the volume of your middle pickup to balance with the evos.
The really good quack sounds are usually created by weaker more vintage output pickups or having your pickups further away from the strings creating a weaker more balanced sound. All the well set up strats I've played have the bass side of the pickups way down and the treble side raised. I tried this on a G & L I had with two fast tracks and a tone zone s and it sounded pretty convincing. Good Luck.