Currently my Schecter's Duncan Designed pickups sound fairly good through my tube amp, due to the nice gain and some EQ tweaks through the amp and my multieffect. I do want to get more sensitive pickups though for pinch harmonics and heavier distortion sounds, or possibly a replacement guitar. The pickup that come to mind is the Dimarzio D-Activator, or something similar like the X2N. Has anyone used these?
Let me know what you think of the pickups sound characteristics (compare to a famous guitarist's sound in a song, or something similar so I can understand more than your personal amp settings).
Might be a bit late for a reply but, I have the X2N installed in one of my guitars and it's got more of a huge and thick sound than a sensitive sound. It's VERY loud and not particularly good for cleans but, it can do harmonics great. Steve Vai's EVO pickups are super sensitive to the point where it makes you clean up your playing. They're very trebley so harmonics are real easy to do with them although, they can sound a bit thin.
Check out bare knuckle pickups. They cost a little bit more than a dimarzio or seymour duncans but they get insanely good reviews all round. They also come in calibrated sets of humbuckers, so if you buy them both at once you get them slightly cheaper. I seriosuly recommend them.
SH 2 jazz and a SH 15 Alternative 8 (great for harmonics). I have ran a ton of pickups in the C1+ and this is the best combo I have found for versatility.
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