quarter pounder neck

[metalmachine]

How do you guys think the quarter founder neck would pair up with my 2x ceramic custom in a Jackson sl1. I dont use cleans. Just overdrive and distortion

[karpathion]

Are you talking stacks, or no stacks?

I have a QP set in my Tele. While they are a very high output single. It may be more of a drop than you would want. But, I don't play those types of axes.

I'd give it a go just for the hell of it. They do sound good for high gain.

[metalmachine]

So they still won't be hot enough to match up you think?

[karpathion]

Paired with a Custom, in that set up, I just don't know.

I can tell you that a QP bridge, is sick! I just don't know if it would match that Custom, in a HSS, SL1. It's not my type of setup, I Just don't know. I would personally go for some type of single sized humbucker. But, that's just me.

I just forsee a drop in volume when you switch from the bridge, to the neck pup. "In my opinion."

If you want to try it, by all means do it and tell us how you like it. I just think there are better options for that particular guitar.

[Strat111]

The Qtr pounder is one of the fattest single coil pups out there, if not the fattest. It is like a Strat sized version of a P90. I personally love the sound and have used it in the neck & bridge in a 2 pup set a la Ritchie Blackmore. It would match up with a Custom, but I don't know about 2X ceramic, as I have never heard one of those.

[uOpt]

Yeah this thing is double heavy. If anything it'll kill the ceramic single.

[metalmachine]

I am wanting a very raw nasty tone in the neck. What do you guys reccomened

[King IzzO)))]

A QP might be a little quieter, but not a ton, they're pretty hot.

A Dimarzio SDS-1 would work, but they're pretty bassy in the neck (for a single), you might not want that. I love it.

If a humbucker is OK I'm thinking a Hot Rails would work perfect with the COC.

[Strat111]

SDS-1 is a wonderful bridge pup, but I find it not very nice at all in the neck. As KI says, it does feel very bassy in the neck. But I thought i saw a thread that Ed Hunter was showing that if you connect the hot lead of the bassy pup in series to a .047 cap and connect the other leg of the cap to the switch, or volume knob, depending on your setup, that it would reduce the bassiness. Check w/Ed Hunter on this mod. With this mod, the SDS-1 might just work.

[metalmachine]

I have thought about the hotrails but I am afraid it will be too fluid. I am also skittish about dinarzio. For some reason every dimarzio I have tried dissapoints me some way

[uOpt]

I have thought about the hotrails but I am afraid it will be too fluid. I am also skittish about dinarzio. For some reason every dimarzio I have tried dissapoints me some way

The hotrails neck are not fat. They are about PAF class.

BTW, the QP also hums more than a regular Strat pickup.

[Strat111]

uOpt is right. Qtr pounders are very noisey pups. But they do sound wonderful.