So I'm down to just one guitar. It's a melody maker sg, the ones from 2011 that only have a volume knob. Right now it has a Dimarzio Dominion in it. It's sort of PAF style but on the hot side. I'm looking for something lower output and maybe a little more hifi? I'm not sure about that part necessarily. I'm not even really sure what that means, but it seems like what I want
Amp wise, I use a micro terror through a 2x12 cab, but I'm about two months from having a Science Mother, so my insistent headroom and clarity issues should get a massive improvement. Music is mostly "alternative" I guess. Current band has some like arcade fire, modest mouse, and the strokes sounds going on. I'm mostly playing little riffs and arpeggios and harmony chords to fill in what the other guy jams out on bar chords. I get to use lots of delay and dirt so I'm pretty happy, and have a pretty blank check to make the songs more weird/interesting however I want. The other guy writes the songs and I spice them up.
A couple pickups I'm real curious about for no particular reason other than they are interesting and seem to match the words I'd like to have describe my tone:
Wide Range Humbuckers, like curtis novaks or something
Gold Foils, lollars most likely
Imperial humbuckers, just because it seems like an improvement on what I already have
????
I know gold foils and wide range humbuckers both get lots of love, but if you only had ONE PICKUP that you had to coax a ton of sounds out of, what would you want??