Bridge Pickup (Peavey Rotor EXP)

[ledbthand]

It's an explorer style mahogany body guitar with a maple neck and bound rosewood fretboard.

 

When I got it originally it had a Mighty Mite Motherbucker. Great pickup but it just sounded a little to muddy. I swapped it out for a no name 2 wire humbucker from the bottom of my parts box. That sounded nice, crunchy and bright below the 12th fret but above it had no real character and was sorta weak sounding. Then I switched to a Duncan Invader and it was also a nice crunchy tone but still muddy and basically dead above the 12th fret.By muddy I mean it sounds like the tone knob is rolled all the way off. It even sounds like that with the pickup wired directly to the output jack.I still have some other pickups to test out: Dimebucker, EMG HZ "sro oc1b", and somewhere I have another no name humbucker with only about 7k output (but I'm pretty sure its a neck pickup).Anyway I was wondering what you guys have, or would suggest, in the bridge of your Explorer or similar style large mahogany body guitars?

[LowFrequencyHighPressure]

Could be the Pickups position. If its in a dead spot for 12th fret up theres not much you can do.

[ledbthand]

Could be the Pickups position. If its in a dead spot for 12th fret up theres not much you can do.

 

Maybe, but I'd rather just sell this guitar and build another.  Re-routing the humbucker slot is a slippery slope.  After all someone else may like it the way it sounds for their drop tuned grind-core band :)

[MVega]

The only reason to keep a guitar is because the neck fits so perfectly in your hand that you can't imagine holding any other. Otherwise... next!