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What are the heaviest sounding pickup you think? I have a Japanese Les Paul copy and I'm certain there's low output single coils in it and they are holding me back.
I keep hearing about black winters and super distrotions, but maybe there's more in the world than humbuckers, one guy in Bongripper plays a LP with p90s and that band's sound is really heavy.

Seymour Duncans are fucking great bang for the buck.
I still miss the guitar I had with Dimebuckers. Those things were ridiculously high on output. Everything chugged and squealed and fuzz just sizzled like it was being cooked.
I have a set of Dirty Heshers now and I'm quite happy.
But I've got my eye on an Avedissian Railsplitter for a future project to see how they compare to the Dime.

I am a big fan of TV Jone's PowerTrons. His demo's on his site don't show them as super heavy, but they can easily go there. What about some variation of the lace alumitones?

My favorite high output pickups right now are bareknuckle warpigs and lundgren M6

BK Warpig with a coil tap. Loved playing that thing just as a single coil. It absolutely screamed. Turning off the coil-tap just seemed to add warmth and roundness. Tapped, it cooked the amp but had a lovely cutting bark.

One of the most responsive pickups I've used when rolling off the volume too. A tapped Warpig at 50% volume can really chime, almost Strat-like.

Get a Warpig, because it can do everything.

I like the Lawrence (Bill&Becky/Wilde USA) L500XL and the hottest of their L90 models.

I'm simple, I like hot pickups and mean ones that typically come with the thing.

Of late, I have very much liked the Dirty Fingers in my 339.

I'm pretty sure BLK TRI is de facto for heavy passive shit.

Heavy Air out of the UK makes my favorite pickups for sludge. The Dive bomb, Leviathan, and Earl are all quality.

ThurberMingus wrote:I'm pretty sure BLK TRI is de facto for heavy passive shit.

Haven't tried them myself but I want to.

Maybe try a pair of humbucker sized p90s? BLK TRI has em, so does bare knuckle and Seymour Duncan. GFS makes a pair if you want to go cheap, and they seem to get good reviews and stuff. I find singles a bit sweeter with fuzz. But then again, haven't played that many humbuckers anyways.

I'm loving the lace finger burners and the dissonant aggressors. they both get super heavy, but retain pretty good note definition/clarity.

Thanks for all the suggestions for far, I'm slowly going through what was said and reviewing as well as I can from youtube clips and soundcloud.

For some clarification I'm a big fan of "woody, warm" mids, big low end, and twangy treble.
So far the Lundgren M6 and Dissonant Aggressors have been impressive, but the Powertrons were really surprising. I might favour fat single coils like p90s.
Haven't heard a great example of a rail/bladed pickup like the dimebuckers yet, they're missing something.

Yeah Dimebuckers are just a big hammer. If you're a fan of nuance they're not for you.
The Heshers do warm and woody in spades.
It's a really blunt sound but a little bit different and pretty cool.
Considering I'm a huge fan of "slice your head off" cutting/sharp tones.

Necro Bump!

So I've narrowed down my choices in the bridge of my LP to either a T.V. Jones Power'tron plus or a Bare Knuckle Warpig. Both are wildly different, the former is "old sounding" and the latter is "djenty". Anyway I was wanting to know if anyone has experience in having P90 pickups in the neck.
I am thinking that if I can get a Warpig humbucker in the bridge, I'd use a Warpig p90 in the neck just to keep it in the family brand.
The power'tron plus though is more of what I want, but I can't narrow down my choice of p90 for the neck pickup.
Anyone got any ideas?

I have Mississippi Queens in my SG and the neck pickup is probably my favourite sound ever to doom out with.
It would pair well with a Warpig.

There was actually a WP in the bridge of that guitar for a while, with a mystery Kent Armstrong in the neck. But I ended up getting rid of both because the sounds were too different switching between and I got a bit sick of how compressed the WP was. It was monstrous though.

If you tune below C sometimes you're better off looking at single coils or lower output style pickups, just so everything doesn't turn to mud. Depends on how you run your chain and what variety of "heavy" you're trying to achieve.