lol, yeah distortiion on distortion sounds but ,,,,i can agree with everyone up there but tend to wonder more on sonnix's thought about the pick-up, coldash i have tried other dimarzios pick-ups out, they are good pickups, but i suggest you try out the seymour duncan "jeff beck" pickup,,,they cut through in the mix really nicely with a nice fat midrange tone, distortions are very unique, listen to randy rhoads guitar,it's really really midranged, would suck all alone, but with the band it cuts through nicely, then listen to metallica, their disortion is really heavy but when it comes to a solo, it's too tiny to use that distortion, you lose the whole sound, the cutting through wicked sound....listen to zack wylde ala
miracle man...his tone is huge fat and sounds good all the way around, but any of his solos never cut through as nicly as say randy's did,,,but it still rocks, he is using emg pickups active 85 model,,,,they r good, but i got rid of them after a year, they way on you, the seymour is very very sweet cutting and holds the bottom and top end together nicely, even go back and listen to zake wylde's guitar work on perry mason, i'm sure he used the same set-up, but he was buried in the mix when it came to his solo spot, and he sounded tiny, i'm sure he was using the same set-up as on miracle man....so play with the tones, check out different guitar dudes sounds, pick a sound that u would like to have as part of your own personal sound, use your ears, have fun.....peace
