So I'm kinda thinking of getting a new pickup for my bridge I'll give you a little history first.
My previous guitar was a JEM 555 with EVO's in the bridge and neck. Although I had been playing guitar for quite a while I had little experience with tone. I joined a band the day I bought the guitar and not long after 'upgraded' to an EMG 81 in the bridge. Instantly I thought "man I could get a some deep palm mutes through the cranked up Marshall". I played like this for a year and then bought a RGT42FMTLF (man that's a mouthful). The pickups were the cheap Ibanez ones so I returned my JEM to stock form and put the EMG in my new guitar. When it came time to sell my JEM I set it up and started playing it again. By this time I had become much more of a lead player. I thought wow...these EVO's are nice pickups. There is so much more life in the higher notes where the EMG sounds sterile and like a lazer beam the Dimarzio sounds like a chainsaw. Many people find the EMG active pickups to be more aggressive and while I agree the attack is fast & the low notes have a lot of chunk the rest of the sound is rather tame. Even now playing my friends guitars (which two of three have EMG's) I can't get any emotion out of them, I have to pick up his beat up 1988 IBANEZ EX series to get a decent tone. So I sold my JEM and I sold my EMG 81 and bought a Dimarzio
Tone Zone for my
RGT42. Looking back this may not have been the best choice for my guitar/musical style. I think it's a great pickup but I think something tighter with a little more attack would be better.
I play mostly metal influenced music through an Ibanez Tube Screamer & Peavey 5150. I'm tuned to C and I don't play a ton of low rhythm mostly a mixture of rhythm/leads (more progressive type stuff). I like vibrato, slides and somewhat technical though not clinical music. I think the Evolution (or EVO2?) would probably be a better match for my playing and mahogany bodied guitar. Am I looking in the right direction?
