AX7521 pickups?
just got a killer deal on one of these, new for $200, which i couldn't pass up. so i've already dealt with the neck-heaviness, now for the pickups. the stock pickups aren't too terrible, but i haven't gotten the opportunity to try them out with my main amp yet. i need to have a bright, clear, powerful tone with good harmonics (need to make 7th-string pinch harmonics scream). my amp tends to get a bit loose in the bottom if you don't have a bright enough signal going in. i had a basswood guitar with a licensed floyd that i was using a pickguard-mounted Joe Barden HB in, and my amp had this slightly loose bottom thing with that guitar that i couldn't dial out. had no problems using the same pickup in my alder-bodied B.C. Rich Gunslinger with maple neck and fingerboard. so i replaced the Barden with an EMG 81, which solved that problem. so the obvious solution for this guitar would be the 707, but it's a bit more expensive than i can probably afford right now, and i'm not sure i want to get my guitar routed for them. so what would be a good, relatively inexpensive, standard-sized pickup for my setup and needs?