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I'm looking for a heavy sounding picukp for my Epiphone Les Paul Junior and I was wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction. I don't want a heavy metal sound just like a hard rock sound. I just got an SH-4 for my Whibley Signature and I was gonna get another one for my Junior but I decided I wanted something with a hard rock sound as opposed to a punk sound. Any ideas?

Is there anyone you want to sound like in particular? YOu could possibly make a search for their Signature Custom guitar if they have one and find out what pickups they put into their guitar. Or better yet, ask the music shops.

How heavy? EMG 85 is heavy. But it's active
If you don't want an active one, I suggest Seymore Duncan Super Distortion. If that's what it's called...

EDIT: Maybe a Gibson Dirty Fingers. Don't listen to what I said first..

I'm not sure, I don't want it to sound metallic I just want a harder rock sound. What would you suggest for a Les Paul Junior?

EDIT: The Dirty Fingers looks good. I think I might go for that one unless there's something that works better with the LP Jr.

dirty fingers is what tom delonge from blink 182 uses so it might give you that type of sound

i use EMGs

playker wrote:i use EMGs

They're good. But they're usually used in metal..

Yeah I think i'll go with the dirty fingers one because i don't want a metal pickup. Did Tom use it on all the blink albums or just the later stuff and the boxcar stuff?

how does the SH-4 sound?

The Forgotten Son wrote:

playker wrote:i use EMGs

They're good. But they're usually used in metal..

yes i know, right now i only play songs with a lot of distortion

SociallyInept wrote:Yeah I think i'll go with the dirty fingers one because i don't want a metal pickup. Did Tom use it on all the blink albums or just the later stuff and the boxcar stuff?

He used it on the last blink record. and he use the pickup now with AvA..

playker wrote:

The Forgotten Son wrote:

playker wrote:i use EMGs

They're good. But they're usually used in metal..

yes i know, right now i only play songs with a lot of distortion

Thats the shit!

get a gibson burstbucker. fuck what tom delonge uses.

get one made entirely of Lead.

will that be heavy enough?

Deryck's personally mentioned that he really likes the sound from the gibson burstbucker.

Seymour duncan makes some pretty bichin' pickups and on their site they'll limit em down to what you want the pickup to sound like, so check that out. blackouts are pretty heavy, btw...

yo, go with a humbucker, you'll never regret it

Active EMG if you want that higher gain output.

But for just a typical rock sound, I don't see why stock humbuckers can't do the job well.

Dude if your into hard rock i recommed you to check out the new Seymour Duncan Blackouts on the Bridge and EMG 60 on the neck
Thats what I'll do to my new guitar. (EMG 60 for lead solos and clean)
They're active but i think it worth it..
If you're not into active pickups i recommend to check out alot of seymour duncans cause they're awesome! (also EMG HZ are good! Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom had them until he replaced them with S.D. Blackout)
Also, You've got two guitars, aren't you?
If you're afraid that the guitar will be too heavy (or her clean wouldn't be good..) you can do one of your 2 guitars into hard rock and 1 guitar with P-90s or stuff that sounds clean and very nice.

Well..
Sorry if my english is wrong.. I'm from Israel..

I hope i helped you!